What piqued readers most in 2009

An anonymous tirade celebrating the downfall of newspapers provoked the most commentary from Newsosaur readers during 2009.

Here are links to the posts that generated the biggest responses in the last 12 months:

:: The last rant: Failing papers ‘bring me joy’

:: Can grassroots journalism do the job?

:: Why media must charge for web content

:: Journicide: A looming, lost generation of scribes

:: How to charge for online content

:: What I recommended to publishers in Chicago

If you want to escape your relatives for a while during the holidays, you can make yourself look busy by adding new comments to the above threads.

Unless some particularly irresistible development occurs, I plan on hibernating in my native Chicago (pic below) for the balance of the year. Wish me warmth, as I do you.

Here’s hoping we can do better in 2010 than we have in the last few years. Happy holidays.