Hi Neal and all involved in this thread, I am one of the principals at Angle the maker of Earl, out of respect for the forum I am not going to plug Earl but answer some of the questions in this thread.
We update the content selections every six hours. We do not go through paywalls. We offer other online content then just newspapers. We decided that newspapers were pretty restrictive so we have content from places like cnn.com, foxnews.com and other news websites. We have also started to add more long form content from magazines, the atlantic is a good example of this. All non-local content can be found under the national selection in the favorites menu. We are also for profit. Did I leave anything out? Regards Shane On Thursday, April 4, 2013 3:43:19 PM UTC-7, Neal Ewers wrote: > > There is another difference between NFB Newsline and Earl. Earl can not go > beyond a pay wall. So, if a news paper has a subscription, you won't see > it > on Earl, even if you have a subscription to this paper. NFB gets > complimentry subscriptions because the newsline is non-proffit. Earl is > managed by a for profit company unless I am mistaken, and there would > likely > be a greater user cost to subscribe to Earl if they had to pay for > subscriptions. By the way, I have them both, so this is not a plug for one > or the other. > > Neal > > -----Original Message----- > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf > Of Alan Lemly > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:10 AM > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Subject: RE: Earl vs. NFB Newsline > > Well, I finally got smart and realized that since there is an app out > there > for just about everything, surely my local newspaper had one. They > confirmed > that they had not one but two. I tried them both and found that one works > very well with VO and now I have access to the entire paper. I just > checked > NFB Newsline at 11pm my time and noticed the number of articles is much > greater than it was this morning but they still don't appear to have the > entire paper. So I'll use the paper's app. > > Thanks for all the helpful comments to my original question. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf > Of Christopher Chaltain > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:31 PM > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Subject: Re: Earl vs. NFB Newsline > > That could be what I'm noticing with the Statesman. My sighted wife > usually > reads the paper in the morning, and when she points out an article to me, > I'll go try to find it in Newsline, and I'll frequently not find it there. > > On 04/03/2013 01:32 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > Hi there. One thing I have noticed with the Houston Chronicle and with > > the > various AP newspapers is that they are updated regularly and newsline > reflects those changes daily. So for example if I start reading today's > newspaper and it shows me 10 local news articles, then I read it later on > this evening it will show more articles. I have not compared to the actual > newspaper so I do not know if it is showing me all the articles available. > > > > On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Christopher Chaltain > > <chal...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > > wrote: > > > >> I've noticed that with the Austin American Statesman, the number of > articles in NFB Newsline is just a subset of the articles in the actual > paper. I seem to recall hearing that these papers, the Statesman being one > of the examples, changes the format of their digital markup fairly > regularly > so Newsline is always playing catch up. I haven't found the normal on line > version of the Statesman accessible at all, and I wonder how Newsline > compares with other apps that give you access to the Statesman. > >> > >> On 04/03/2013 12:36 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > >>> Hello Don. What do you find are some of the differences between your > >>> local newspaper in reality versus what NFB newsline has to offer? > >>> Also just so you know, your message came through at the end of the > >>> message you reply to instead of on top. Most people prefer that > >>> replies go on top to make them easier and quicker to read with speech. > Thanks. > >>> > >>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:11 PM, "Donald L. Roberts" > >>> <donald.r...@gmail.com <javascript:> > >>> <mailto:donald.r...@gmail.com<javascript:>>> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On April 2, Alan Lemly wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I know that Earl uses some voice-activated commands and that is > >>>>> different from the NFB Newsline app but I'm curious why anyone > >>>>> would pay for its subscription service. > >>>> > >>>> I for one will do so because NFB Newsline's representation of some > >>>> newspapers is little more than a bad joke. When I compare the > >>>> Newsline version of my local paper to the actual newspaper, it just > >>>> frustrates > me. > >>>> > >>>> Don Roberts > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > >>>> Google Group. > >>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > >>>> To post to this group, send email to > >>>> vip...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > >>>> <mailto:vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>> viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > >>>> <mailto:viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > >>>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > >>>> --- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>> Groups "VIPhone" group. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > >>>> send an email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > >>>> <mailto:viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > >>> Google Group. > >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > >>> To post to this group, send email to > >>> vip...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > >>> --- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "VIPhone" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > >>> send an email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> -- > >> Christopher (CJ) > >> chaltain at Gmail > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > >> To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the > >> Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > >> send an > email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> > > > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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