sethgodin.typepad.com - 1/16/2009
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Years and years after some pundits began predicting the end of newspapers, the newspapers themselves are finally realizing that it's over. Huge debt, high costs, declining subscription rates, plummeting ad base--will the last one out please turn off the lights. On their way out, though, we're ...
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"Yesterday morning I watched a heron eating a live eel on the mudbank by the south pier of Hammersmith bridge. Today it was foggy; the mudbank was almost awash. The heron was still waiting there. I fear the river in all its moods & hate low tide as much as I hate partly-foundered ships." Dammit. The guy throws away poetry better than I've ever bloody written.
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When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? - Seth Godin
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Seth Godin asks what we’ll miss about printed newspapers
Futurismic —
... When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? asks Seth Godin. His answer? Not a great deal. He takes the opposite view to the journalists who tell us that the ‘proper’ investigative journalism will be killed off by the migration to the web: ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Seth Godin asks what "When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?" His answer: "investigative reporting." But Godin is optimistic: ...
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