Disclaimer
From Day 1 til now, I always afraid of being accused of infringing the copyright law.
If you are from anyone of the news/magazines agency, discovered this site by chance, and deems Orangedays as inappropriate, please kindly leave comments and notify me as soon as possible. I will close this site and delete all the related entries once being warned.
But before you take any actions, please let me tell you the story:
The idea of Orangedays
For average people in Hong Kong, the newspapers/magazines reading habit is very confined, people only read one newspaper/magazine per day. (At maximum two to three, thanks to the free newspapers in HK, AM730, Metro and Headline)
There are articles/authors that I think people should take heed of, in newspapers/magazines other than what people are reading everyday.
I read fast, I got the method to access to all newspapers and magazines, both local and overseas everyday, and scan through all the articles within. I could act as a “lens”, helping people to see things through my eyes, letting all read what I read.
Of course, I have preference, I am interested in bold-incidents and big headlines in financial world, reading, culture, fashion and entrepreneurship, you could find there is a loose theme of articles genres of the above categories.
Orangedays is educational; it could help busy/HK people to take notice of trend-setting, but somehow overlooked, disregard, hidden sidelines. For the big big headlines, I seldom publish those, as I think that it could be easily found on other websites, and it is the main dish of news agency, of which drive the revenue for them.
For the articles I published, the ultimate aim is to increase the awareness of HK people for the things aside, let people be more creative and think out of the box, promote different business models and entrepreneurial ideas, of which, I think it is the engine of the capital world, as it could drive the economic grow in any countries.
I am doing a model shift from solely articles citing to others, like, from 4 Nov 2006, I started the campaign of “An idea a day”, hoping if one day Orangedays can no longer publish any articles, it could still retain the traffic.
Benefits of Orangedays to news agencies
At the mind of any reporters, they all want their ideas/reports being published, get noticed by the crowds and create some degree of influence. But noticeable space is precious, not all articles could get noticed, even get a glimpse from readers, even the effect/story is important and far-reaching.
Orangedays can provide a platform for sideline reporters to have the effect, as all the visitors of Orangedays should be interested in the genre and my preference of articles, thus articles can be more targeted to the audience.
Columnists or authors can more easily find their fans, and setup loyalty, for which, without Orangedays, the two may never make a connection because of the reading habit.
This loyalty effect should be beneficial to agencies, as it could attract inertia newspaper buyers, who may not be your customer before, if your agency’s articles truly provide meaning to readers. In other words, you could think Orangedays is a free advertising platform of articles/newspapers, for which may raise the awareness and interest towards your agency.
Unlike uploading/BT MP3 or movies for others to download, which will damage the profit of the properties holders, as people will not buy the CD/DVD if they already have a copy in their harddrive.
Orangedays will not have bad affect on the revenue of your agency, no matter the main revenue model is from advertising fee, which is determined by the number/group of readers, or from membership fees for online review of past issue, or by publishing the articles into a book.
Orangedays will not publish all the articles from the same column/columnist; I am just citing SOME articles but not ALL. If someone find an article by an author he seems greatly interested, he is very prone to be interested in other articles by the same authors, then he will probably need to pay and registered as a member for reviewing past articles, or he will be interested to buy the book that is a collection of articles. Then Orangedays, apart from not damaging the revenue model, it could help for promotion.
If the revenue model of the agency is on the online advertisements, then Orangedays could provide a direct link towards your site, if membership is not required for accessing.
New trend/model for newspapers/magazines
The appearance of bloggers seems to be a threat to agencies, but I think it is not.
You could say Orangedays is a blog, providing meaningful articles everyday to the internet crowds, but what I am citing are newspaper clippings. It could provide a bend of newpaper and blogsphere.
Agencies are finding models for using blog as a new platform, I hope Orangedays could provide some food for thought.
If you are from anyone of the news/magazines agency, discovered this site by chance, and deems Orangedays as inappropriate, please kindly leave comments and notify me as soon as possible. I will close this site and delete all the related entries once being warned.
But before you take any actions, please let me tell you the story:
The idea of Orangedays
For average people in Hong Kong, the newspapers/magazines reading habit is very confined, people only read one newspaper/magazine per day. (At maximum two to three, thanks to the free newspapers in HK, AM730, Metro and Headline)
There are articles/authors that I think people should take heed of, in newspapers/magazines other than what people are reading everyday.
I read fast, I got the method to access to all newspapers and magazines, both local and overseas everyday, and scan through all the articles within. I could act as a “lens”, helping people to see things through my eyes, letting all read what I read.
Of course, I have preference, I am interested in bold-incidents and big headlines in financial world, reading, culture, fashion and entrepreneurship, you could find there is a loose theme of articles genres of the above categories.
Orangedays is educational; it could help busy/HK people to take notice of trend-setting, but somehow overlooked, disregard, hidden sidelines. For the big big headlines, I seldom publish those, as I think that it could be easily found on other websites, and it is the main dish of news agency, of which drive the revenue for them.
For the articles I published, the ultimate aim is to increase the awareness of HK people for the things aside, let people be more creative and think out of the box, promote different business models and entrepreneurial ideas, of which, I think it is the engine of the capital world, as it could drive the economic grow in any countries.
I am doing a model shift from solely articles citing to others, like, from 4 Nov 2006, I started the campaign of “An idea a day”, hoping if one day Orangedays can no longer publish any articles, it could still retain the traffic.
Benefits of Orangedays to news agencies
At the mind of any reporters, they all want their ideas/reports being published, get noticed by the crowds and create some degree of influence. But noticeable space is precious, not all articles could get noticed, even get a glimpse from readers, even the effect/story is important and far-reaching.
Orangedays can provide a platform for sideline reporters to have the effect, as all the visitors of Orangedays should be interested in the genre and my preference of articles, thus articles can be more targeted to the audience.
Columnists or authors can more easily find their fans, and setup loyalty, for which, without Orangedays, the two may never make a connection because of the reading habit.
This loyalty effect should be beneficial to agencies, as it could attract inertia newspaper buyers, who may not be your customer before, if your agency’s articles truly provide meaning to readers. In other words, you could think Orangedays is a free advertising platform of articles/newspapers, for which may raise the awareness and interest towards your agency.
Unlike uploading/BT MP3 or movies for others to download, which will damage the profit of the properties holders, as people will not buy the CD/DVD if they already have a copy in their harddrive.
Orangedays will not have bad affect on the revenue of your agency, no matter the main revenue model is from advertising fee, which is determined by the number/group of readers, or from membership fees for online review of past issue, or by publishing the articles into a book.
Orangedays will not publish all the articles from the same column/columnist; I am just citing SOME articles but not ALL. If someone find an article by an author he seems greatly interested, he is very prone to be interested in other articles by the same authors, then he will probably need to pay and registered as a member for reviewing past articles, or he will be interested to buy the book that is a collection of articles. Then Orangedays, apart from not damaging the revenue model, it could help for promotion.
If the revenue model of the agency is on the online advertisements, then Orangedays could provide a direct link towards your site, if membership is not required for accessing.
New trend/model for newspapers/magazines
The appearance of bloggers seems to be a threat to agencies, but I think it is not.
You could say Orangedays is a blog, providing meaningful articles everyday to the internet crowds, but what I am citing are newspaper clippings. It could provide a bend of newpaper and blogsphere.
Agencies are finding models for using blog as a new platform, I hope Orangedays could provide some food for thought.
