Daily Archives: November 11, 2009

Information Serendipity In Different Mediums

Credit: David Weekly [CC BY]
I’ve been meaning to comment on Mathew Ingram’s defence of newspapers and serendipity. Clay Shirky has been talking about the bundling that occurs in newspapers as a mere accident of print, something that was only necessary given the constraints of paper, but doesn’t make sense otherwise. Mathew disagrees:
Is there a purpose [...]