connecting*the*dots

Tim O’Reilly, Dave Winer and Doc Searls on how to save newspapers. I say let ‘em die. And I’m not saying that because I feel they’re not worth “saving” or that people shouldn’t plant seeds for long-term change, I just feel that the web-bergs are popping up everywhere and the business side of these cruise ship-like news organizations are steeped too deep in legacy methods to nimbly maneuver this unchannel of voice and interaction. One of these days a killer online news service — with zero old media legacy issues — will effortlessly circle about and use their collaborative filtered databases to fill the dead tree void by creating a model for running off smart print versions of “the news” that people give two shits about. Then newspapers will be saved, only they’ll go by names foreign to us now.