Hi Allison. We got the pan from Amazon. Just search the site for "takoyaki pan".

Hi SGH. Thanks so much for listening! Yes, you can borrow the image. I would just request that you add a photo caption attributing the image and linking to the podcast website.

Some Youku streams have the regional restriction while others don't. I just play the ones that don't.

Exactly. Alternatively, in Chrome, right-click on the pop-up player window, and there is an option to "Show page as tab". That'll turn the pop-out window into a tab. Then you just expand the player to full-screen.

Thanks Steven. Sure, go ahead and link to the post. As for your question, I have no idea what Google is going to do as far as local streaming goes.

Hi Wayne. Thanks for reading and commenting. No, don't disagree with the call for UX professionals to become proficient in product management and business strategy if that's a path they're interested in. But I am curious: Would a designer worrying about, say, business-strategy concerns face similar potential conflicts of interest as a designer worrying about implementation challenges?

Thanks for the links, Steve. Those are ideas worth exploring.

Hey, did we just have a debate about paywalls without it turning into a religious war?

Thanks Steve, and no apology, partial or otherwise, is necessary.

The resources, attention, and priority for implementing paywalls are indeed big factors, which is why I say paywalls should be "evaluated" (as opposed to just implemented b/c it worked for this other guy) as a potential revenue stream like all other potential revenue streams. Every strategy takes resources away from another, so let's evaluate them all on their own merits, pick a mix, and adjust it as things progress. Paywalls may not be right for many, if not most, papers, just as, say, a newsroom cafe may not be right for many papers (e.g., their audience may be more McCafe than Starbucks).

You asked: "Can you cite one example, just one, of a newspaper company pouring similar resources, attention and priority into development of a revenue source that's not ads or subs?"

How about yours? :) Seriously, while I can point to projects here and there, no, I can't name a single newspaper company that's spending as much on a revenue source other than ads and subs. But those two are, after all, the two biggest digital revenue sources for media, newspapers or otherwise. So the fact that investment in non-ad, no-sub revenue streams has been limited is not surprising.

Is it bad? I definitely think there needs to be more investment in this area, but how much more depends on how much potential revenue there is in those alternative sources. So the NYT (reportedly) spends $40 million to make/save $100 million (or whatever the real number is). To say whether that money would've been better spent on developing non-ad, non-sub revenue sources, we need to know whether there is $60 million of potential non-ad, non-sub revenue out there to be had. And I'm not qualified to say whether there is or not. Got any resources/research on that kind of info? (NOTE, edited to clean up typo).

Thanks for stopping by, Steve. I did read your piece, and I agree with a lot of it. I thought CJR's declaration that the paywall issue is settled was silly and likely a hyperbole to stir up strong reactions (which it did).

You're absolutely right in your post that paywalls will be subject to disruption, even if they work. BUT, name one successful business strategy that isn't subject to disruption. To me, that's not an argument to not do something. It's an argument to remain constantly vigilant, and I don't see a paywall as inherently counter to that. Maybe that's the main divergence in our opinions.

You're right that nothing the NYT does can be reasonably extrapolated to most other newspapers. I've always thought the same thing as well. But also consider that the mantra in the months leading up to the Times' metered system was "It won't work." Now, the mantra is "Fine, it seems like it may be working, but it won't work for anybody else." What will we be chanting next year? What I draw from it is that in the end, you just have to try something (with an informed strategy) to see if'd work. Clay Shirky did say this is the time for experiments, no?

You say you won't call the NYT paywall a success until its business starts growing rather than cutting. Fine. I have no problem with that. All I ask is that media doers and observers apply that same standard in assessing all strategies, including the so-called "forward-looking" ones. From what I've seen, that's not happening, or at least not enough.

Finally, I'll pose the same question to you as I posed to Mathew Ingram: I'd like to see examples of paywalls killing off innovation, where a newspaper was innovating before, then put in a paywall, and has lost the will to try other things. I'm not aware of any examples, which is why I think papers that put in a paywall and think they're done innovating weren't innovating to begin with, so there's no innovation to kill off there. But if you show me some good examples, I'll say something I haven't seen anybody else in this discussion say: I was wrong about that.

Thanks for reading and commenting. As I said in the "Do These Tips Work?" section of the main page for this series <a href="http://(http://www.john-zhu.com/blog/how-to-voluntarily-become-an-ex-journalist/)," target="_blank">(http://www.john-zhu.com/blog/how-to-voluntarily-become-an-ex-journalist/), all I can say is that these strategies worked for me in my job searches. I freely admit that everyone's situation is different and that I had certain advantages (such as being relatively young at the time when I got out of the journalism biz) that others may not have.