Links published on May 3, 2007
Dinner-and-a-Movie Theory: Why Reddit Gets it Backwards
This is why newspapers lose when they prevent readers from commenting on their articles. The reason most people read the paper is that it gives them social currency with others. The value of the paper is directly proportional to its ability to serve as an object of sociability. Make the experience more social and the value goes up, less social and the value goes down.