The sound of change
You can kind of hear it in the wind, the sound of change in publishing. The cacophonous clanking of consolidation continues to be sure, but if you listen closely enough there’s music in the distance. Howard Kurtz points at, what I think is, one of the drivers of change in his post earlier this week [...]
It’s the medium is the message, stupid
L. Gordon Crovitz, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required), puts it simply: “It’s ideas that count, not how they’re transmitted.” This is a closing line in a column about e-books and the iPad. That a “print” journalist makes this comment directly and without pussy-footing around with adverbs is a testament to how far [...]