Tag Archives: newspapers

Living in Nowhere-Land

Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while may know that I have a strong interest in the looming death of printed newspapers. So I found a recent article from Harpers Online particularly interesting. Richard Rodriguez’ “Final Edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper” tells the story of the San Francisco Chronicle, [...]
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News Wikis, Ann Arbor style

A few days ago I came upon newsless.org, which states that it’s “Time to stop breaking the news, and start fixing it.” In its inaugural post, Matt Thompson presents the following: Five years ago, blogger Dave Winer and New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz made a bet. “In a Google search of five keywords or [...]
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