I remember when I was at Condenast (10+ years ago) + on the tech end of things, there was a massive gap between the editorial/creative staff + the tech staff. Looks like things haven’t changed very much.

Add to it, the inability for companies to offer a brilliant digital -> non-digital handoff experiences and wow, frustrations!

All the more reason to have people who can straddle both sides of the fence. Of course, I come biased.

Glad to be back in a place where I can read your writing again! The GFW is on again/off again.

Chances are many of the old newspapers and mags will fade away before they address their changing markets. They piss off those of us who crouched over the Sunday funnies, delivered papers on our bikes and wash ink off our hands after breakfast every day. But we think we still really need them.

They barely exist for the new customers they need to stay alive into the next decade. I’m not sure these folks will care enough to tell the papers how to take the hassles out of paid subscriptions.

Our twitter/FB/LinkedIn/etc friends tell us everyday who gets it and who doesn’t. Zappos, for one, has taken a very local hands-on retail business to over a billion dollars on-line. They probably make it pretty easy to trade your money for their shoes.

Some days I think that, now that most of my print buddies have retired, it’s time give up the hassles with the old pubs and
find the folks who are delivering the news without the grief.

Thanks for stirring the pot.

I don’t take on faith that all newspapers will die. Some will die. All will suffer. And some will survive. Meanwhile, why make it worse? Or, why not make it better? That’s what I’m proposing.

as is said in science, science proceeds on the basis of funerals.

lot of things have to die in america. there is no other way.