RIP: Newspapers
March 16th, 2009 by Heywood
Check out this great article by Clay Shirkey, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” Here’s a snippet:
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.
There are fewer and fewer people who can convincingly tell such a lie. ”
Read the whole post here– worth the time.
(via Eliot; image via TheStranger)
March 16th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Epicly-long article… but VERY informative.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
The lack of an historical perspective makes difficult to think about or understand the future. Is this really the end of the printed newspaper? Perhaps not.
Read more here:
http://artzen2.com/artzen2-0115.htm
March 19th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
You are a very smart person!