Comments on: I Don’t Read the Paper, I Read Twitter

By: New Comm Biz » Write Great Content. Fragment. Distribute Everywhere.

New Comm Biz » Write Great Content. Fragment. Distribute Everywhere. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:12:05 +0000

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By: David

David — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:38:39 +0000

I read the title of this post and before even seeing it thought I might get a mention! One last argument I'll make defending the need for newspapers. Have you ever tried to use a G1 or an Iphone to start a fire? They don't make an app for that!

By: David Patton

David Patton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:11:35 +0000

So I'm the guy who handed Tac the dead tree editions of the news. I must admit that I offered them as much to see what he would do with them as it was a sharing exercise. Tac was a good sport.
While I've been a digital journalist for most of my career, I still enjoy reading the dead tree edition from time to time. To this point, my access to digital information while on public transportation (where I spend a fair amount of time before moving West) was spotty, and the low-tech print edition served fine.
I've been fascinated in recent years with the efforts by mainstream news sites to recreate the “serendipity” of leafing through a print edition or passively watching a TV show in the interactive experience of the Web. Mostly that's been confined to most-read lists.
But I think Twitter and similar services do a better job now because you can find out what like-minded the people you consider friends or influentials are reading.