I’ve started reading What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis. It is absolutely amazing. I absolutely recommend it to anyone remotely intersted in the internet and the content found therein.
A combination of Jeff Jarvis and the shenanigans that the Associated Press and Newspaper Association of America have been up to lately are starting to make me seriously worried about working for a newspaper. Until now, I generally assumed that—at least at The Capital—newspaper subscription would slowly dwindle, positions would be cut, and we would eventually end up a far more streamlined publication catering to the internet. That we would somehow deal, and while we may not emerge stronger, we would at least make it through. Now I’m honestly not so sure.
I give it a year, tops. Before somewhere, a large enough piece of the industry collapses and sends big enough shockwaves through the rest of the industry and destroys the whole thing.