Comments on: New Tech Series: Newspapers: is online really better? http://arfore.com/2007/12/31/new-tech-series-newspapers-is-online-better/ welcome to the foremind Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy Fore http://arfore.com/2007/12/31/new-tech-series-newspapers-is-online-better/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Andy Fore Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:03:43 +0000 http://arfore.com/2007/12/31/new-tech-series-newspapers-is-online-better/#comment-42 Yes, my chosen smartphone does have some shortcomings, as does my cellular service in the area in which I live. We are still limited to EDGE in Valdosta. However, unless I choose to purchase something along the lines of an EEE PC, I am doubtful that even if my smartphone or network was improved that I would pick reading the paper online rather in the non-digital analog. It's really not that I think it is the newspaper's place or responsibility to ensure the "value-added services". It's more the loss of a traditional activity. There is a certain nostalgia factor that is involved. Yes, my chosen smartphone does have some shortcomings, as does my cellular service in the area in which I live. We are still limited to EDGE in Valdosta. However, unless I choose to purchase something along the lines of an EEE PC, I am doubtful that even if my smartphone or network was improved that I would pick reading the paper online rather in the non-digital analog.

It’s really not that I think it is the newspaper’s place or responsibility to ensure the “value-added services”. It’s more the loss of a traditional activity. There is a certain nostalgia factor that is involved.

]]> By: hofo http://arfore.com/2007/12/31/new-tech-series-newspapers-is-online-better/comment-page-1/#comment-41 hofo Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:07:31 +0000 http://arfore.com/2007/12/31/new-tech-series-newspapers-is-online-better/#comment-41 Why can't you read the online version while you wait to be shorn? Is that the AJC's fault or due to the shortcomings of your chosen smartphone? The things you list as "value-added services" of an offline newspaper don't really have anything to do with the newspaper itself. As you noted when you alluded printing the online version they are other capabilities of the physical medium: the paper. Can you ask the printed newspaper to show you an article that was printed last year? How about asking the printed newspaper to send an interesting article to a sibling on the other side of the state? Paper isn't going away. The paperless society has been heralded for some time now and has so far failed to appear. You'll still be able to create paper hats and boats for decades to come. Embrace change! Why can’t you read the online version while you wait to be shorn? Is that the AJC’s fault or due to the shortcomings of your chosen smartphone? The things you list as “value-added services” of an offline newspaper don’t really have anything to do with the newspaper itself. As you noted when you alluded printing the online version they are other capabilities of the physical medium: the paper.

Can you ask the printed newspaper to show you an article that was printed last year? How about asking the printed newspaper to send an interesting article to a sibling on the other side of the state?

Paper isn’t going away. The paperless society has been heralded for some time now and has so far failed to appear. You’ll still be able to create paper hats and boats for decades to come.

Embrace change!

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