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 […]
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Newspapers are being hit hard by digital technology. Like record companies, who are still struggling, their business models have become increasingly obsolete and they’re forced to adapt to the changes that the Internet brings about. There are lots of other ways to get news now. I don’t read newspapers anymore […]
Though I’ll admit to not being very familiar with his music, I have just gained quite a bit of respect for Prince. His latest album, Planet Earth, was given away as a free covermount a few weeks ago with the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday (a newspaper), causing music retailers to […]