Wednesday, August 10, 2011

No more quotes archived to this blog

I've been thinking about this for quite some time and have finally come to a decision on this issue. I am not going to archive anymore quotes about the Warriors on this blog. I am still a Warriors fan and will read everything I can on the team, so it bothers me that Warriors fans will not have an archive anymore for quotes on the team.  Tombo does an amazing job in covering the news about the Warriors with awesome video support from Chawan_Cut and you can get to his blog at: http://uhfootball.blogspot.com/

The reason I'm stopping this blog is simple. National coverage of the Warriors has decreased by 90% or so from the 2006-2007 years, so the bulk of the quotes are coming from Hawaii newspapers.  Hawaii used to have 2 Honolulu newspapers that provided free content, but now there is just 1 newspaper that has recently put up a paywall.  I could archive the quotes from their articles, and just getting quotes seems to be fine with "fair use" copyright laws, but that would hurt the newspaper since people could get the content of the articles without paying.  Since the Star-Advertiser is the source of almost all of the quotes for the Warriors, leaving them out would neuter this quote archive to the point that it would just be pointless to continue.

Online-only subscriptions to the Star-Advertiser are very reasonably priced, especially when compared to other paywalls set up by mainland newspapers.  Subscribers to the print newspaper get a code for free online access to the online newspaper...but not everyone has parents like I do who subscribe to the Star-Advertiser (and the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin before the Star-Advertise existed) and never read the online newspaper so they can give their code to a grateful son.

I am sad to see this blog end and hope that this blog has been useful to anyone interested in the Warriors.

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