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Guardian's Open Weekend - streamed live

 

 

"This weekend the Guardian is opening its doors to over 200 speakers and thousands of guests for the Guardian Open Weekend. Interviews, Q&As, debates and 'how to' sessions will take place over the two days. The sessions will cover a wide range of topics such as theatre, writing, environment, politics, the economy and many more. For those that can't make the weekend we'll be streaming selected sessions live throughout Saturday and Sunday."

Brilliant speakers are lined up at Guardian's open weekend which range from the likes of the great Charlie Brooker to author Zoe Margolis and Marcus Mumford from Mumford & Sons. The full line-up is available here: http://dunkdigital.com/guardian_open_weekend/ so keep an eye out on Guardian's Blog this weekend for the live streaming events which should be really interesting.

How Online Paywalls Are Changing Journalism

"As long as the newspaper was a bundle, no one ever had to care that people were buying it for radically different reasons. But once you go online, and people can unbundle things, where you can traffic directly to a story without going through the home page or any of the rest of it, suddenly what it — the individual choices made by individual readers come to matter a lot." - Clay Shirky, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Shirky thinks 2012 will yield a critical mass of readers will be willing to pay for news online. Also on the show, Denise Warren, general manager for NYTimes.com, who explains the New York Times paywall strategy.