The Daily Novel

…..Speak out to the people where ever they are and don’t charge them an entrance fee.

Explanation of this below.

Have just picked up the Worblog article about how difficult Tribune is finding it to survive in the blogging era. It refers to an article Paul Anderson wrote on the Gauche website on January 18. One reader has already posted saying the answer is re-invent yourself online.

I agree.

But that is easier said than done. Developing a new web-site, blog site, which is what Tribune needs, takes a lot of time and requires some skilled help.

One organisation which might help is MySociety, which I only came across today. It is all about helping people build up sites that better inform the democratic process. Its stance is determinedly unbiased. But I should think they would be open to the view that the voice of left is a disadvantaged minority!

MySociety seem to have the technical expertise to help Tribune make the huge leap it needs to take from its present web site. And I am sure that it would help the sales of the print version.

Because the web version should be free. Most of your potential readers are short of money. And they are now used to getting the mainstream media free.
And potentially your readers can also be your contributors. But you lot at Tribune have got to make it easy for them to come to you.

I am sure Nye Bevan would agree. And that were he around he would be doing some inspiring PodCasts and Video Blogs for your site.

Get netted. And quick.