Dr. Dobbs to cease?

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk- bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jim s Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:29 PM To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Dr. Dobbs to cease? Richard wrote: Quoted Ian: <snip> I believe that there are two different issues here. Moderation of a forum of which the the membership of is open to anyone is different than the model where the writers and participants are chosen and there is an editor / writer relationship in place. It requires some business model or resource to support the latter, since there is usually going to be a dedicated group if there is to be any quality to it, in order for the enterprise to function. Selling magazines used to do that. I do not believe that there is the same resource to support these with online models. It remains to be seen if the old publishing companies with magazines and an online presence can survive, or if other ones will. Certainly the treatment of the DDJ readership was not handled very well. I would think that there would have been a cost effective model which would have allowed for all online publishing and getting rid of the cost of the physical magazine as a step rather than effectively erasing it the way they did. Having a group like this with minimum moderation and one which is heavily edited like the comp group mentioned is not going to produce the same results.