And then add your comments here or email me. I am trying to pull together some ideas about this. You can read more from Dave about his discussion with Jeff Jarvis, too.

Here’s a question I [meaning Dave Winer] ask people privately to help focus their thinking… Suppose there were no NY Times tomorrow, and you heard somewhere, maybe on Politco or Huffpost or Memeorandum that it had gone out of business and was never going to publish again. Permalink to this paragraph

1. How would you feel?

2. What would you do?

3. What should the Times have done but didn’t do before they shut down?

Food for thought.