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Reading your feed leaves
And I thought it was just a search tool! Fascinating possibilities from Steve Rubel.
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Espied from the bowels of an anomaly
The newspaper as you know it tis but a “historical anomaly.” — Jane Singer, professor of digital journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, speaking at a future of newspapers conference. With the era of the mass-media, ad-driven newspaper nearing an end, she said the evolution of newspapers is one of “punctuated equilibrium,” a theory…
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Predictions from the disco era
Musings on online newspapers from 1978. Yes, 1978. Kenneth Edwards got it amazingly right. It’s held up better with time than, say, disco music. If we think of a newspaper as being a printed object delivered to our homes, we may be talking about replacing newspaper with an electronic signal. But if we think (as I…