Comments on: The end of print web http://www.jhames.com/hearsay/design/the-end-of-print-web/ That’s just crazy talk Tue, 11 May 2010 22:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stephen http://www.jhames.com/hearsay/design/the-end-of-print-web/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Stephen Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:07:07 +0000 http://www.jhames.com/?p=196#comment-310 "We need to turn off the web" should be the mantra of the new generation of publishers. I just read a blog entry from one of my local TV stations talking about the Ward Churchill fiasco going on here in CO. The author brought up no facts, but, in so many words, decided that since Churchill is unpopular, the CU Board should pony up the $1M Churchill demanded if he didn't get his job back, and then make sure all future professors undergo severe background checking before they're offered tenure. We live in a world where people in positions of authority (authority in this case given to those in the media) we childishly declare have our best intentions in mind when they post mile after digital mile of crap for us to skim and then respond to with our cheap-tasting, knee-jerk reactions. The quantity vs. quality argument isn't even on the radar anymore. And don't get me started on the irony of me posting this comment in response to your blog entry. I surely do miss the days of two newspapers here in Denver. I miss the days of sitting in a coffeeshop and being able to actually make eye contact with someone else, when they glance up from a particularly fantastic turn of phrase in a book, or a provocative concept in a newspaper. Now it's bite-size news delivered wirelessly to your laptop. All our technology, and we're more atomized than ever before. You and me, kid, we'll go far. “We need to turn off the web” should be the mantra of the new generation of publishers. I just read a blog entry from one of my local TV stations talking about the Ward Churchill fiasco going on here in CO. The author brought up no facts, but, in so many words, decided that since Churchill is unpopular, the CU Board should pony up the $1M Churchill demanded if he didn’t get his job back, and then make sure all future professors undergo severe background checking before they’re offered tenure.

We live in a world where people in positions of authority (authority in this case given to those in the media) we childishly declare have our best intentions in mind when they post mile after digital mile of crap for us to skim and then respond to with our cheap-tasting, knee-jerk reactions. The quantity vs. quality argument isn’t even on the radar anymore.

And don’t get me started on the irony of me posting this comment in response to your blog entry.

I surely do miss the days of two newspapers here in Denver. I miss the days of sitting in a coffeeshop and being able to actually make eye contact with someone else, when they glance up from a particularly fantastic turn of phrase in a book, or a provocative concept in a newspaper. Now it’s bite-size news delivered wirelessly to your laptop.

All our technology, and we’re more atomized than ever before.

You and me, kid, we’ll go far.

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