© Ernst Vikne
I like newspapers. I used to write for one (okay, I used to write for a couple, actually). Newspapers are a nice way to keep track, keep in touch with places where I used to live. And since I've lived on four continents and in 14 time zones, I like newspapers…
I used to drive in to a library where I could look at a couple of international newspapers – The South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times of India. But it's harder to find the Augusta Chronicle in a library like that.
I was pleased to discover recently that its now pretty easy to get a newspaper subscription over the Internet. Lots of little community papers don't have online versions. And let's face it, the online version of most papers really isn't the same thing as the print edition.
Not everything that's important in life is on the Web, but that doesn't mean you can't get it over the web…
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All the newspaper industry has to do to save itself is to re-train staff. If individual freelance bloggers are pulling in $15K a month in AdSense advertisements, what would that do for a re-configured newspaper industry? Newspapers already have text gurus in place; it’s just a matter of instructing the writers and reporters on correct Web 2.0 Article Submission techniques, Web 2.0 Comments, SEO — in general, on how to treat their paper like a Web 2.0 Blog — to leverage the position they already have within their local communities. Heck, one person could start a Web 2.0 Newspaper in a town like Chicago and put the remaining mainstream online and paper newspapers out of business. SK
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