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Albany's Local Govt Election is Over Run with Nutters
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I have an unrelated question, but since your an Albany local you may know of something. I's looking pretty hard while i's down there last to see if there was any independent journo's in Albany, that i could track and post their stuff on this community from time to time. I couldn't find any, just ABC and Stokes. Closest i could find was a Denmark paper that seems okay, formats not very link aggregator friendly though.
Do you know of anybody/organisations down Albany way that i can link to on here?
Nope, not any more.
We had an indie paper but it was pretty pathetic and the inevitable insolvency happened several years ago.
There is southerly magazine but its only published as a pdf.
Bah, these bloody pdfs, i'm gona have to email one of these papers one day and ask what the deal is with these. I'd love to be able to refer to papers like Post but they're done the same way.
I had a brief discussion with the Perth Voice editor when that site went down earlier this year, apparently they reached a maximum on memory they could store for that website? I don't really understand that explanation though. But if they're going offline like they have then maybe its too expensive for these papers to have their articles accessible in a more online friendly format. I don't know, as i say, i'm gona have to contact one of these people one of these days and understand the issue.
I'll have a stab at an answer. I think there's a range of reasons.
These magazines are produced by people will the skills, knowledge, resources, and contacts to produce a physical magazine. The southerly is produced by someone who was at the last indie paper to shut down here in Albany.
It's a side hustle. Get some advertisers to pay you to put their ad in a magazine at cafes and wherever else.
The online distribution just isn't relevant to these producers. They won't ever get any revenue from it. They're not interested in increasing their online readership. They don't know how to produce websites, because their skills and experience are in print.
In some ways, making their content available in a shareable way, like a blog post, makes it ripe for posting to facebook, which will ultimately reduce their readership.
Allowing you to see their production in a pdf viewer is a concession that allows you to show someone else some article you read at the cafe or whatever.
This is an interesting thought, i can understand the logic, might not agree that its sound, but i can see the way they'd put together that line of thinking.