Comments on: there will never be an end to print

By: Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:34:28 +0000

Hi Jonathon,

I am a journalism student at RMIT in Melbourne but I'm also doing some work for Panorama, a news program on SYN radio, which is a Melbourne based youth radio station, and I think you'd be a fantastic interview subject.
If you have a moment in the next day or two, I would love to have a chat with you about the concept of citizen journalism as I'm writing a feature on the subject. I found your views to be pretty interesting and I would like to use you in the article. If you have a moment to spare, could you send me a quick email? sbwil2@gmail.com or the one I've used in the form.

Either way, it's been a pleasure reading your blog.

Cheers,

Susan Wilson

By: Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:34:28 +0000

By: windo

windo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:15:58 +0000

here's a deck that's worth the read, "Print Media RIP"

http://www.slideshare.net/dirkthecow/print-medi...

By: windo

windo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:14:06 +0000

“it's about the best medium for the message.” this statement is so right on.

there's something special when i take my time flipping thru the pages of F1 magazine or the Surfer's Journal as i recline in my sofa with a beer. it's not the same reading from my laptop. in front of the screen, there's a sense of immediacy and having to consume the information quickly (to avoid all the damn banner ads and pop-ups) and move on to the next story or link. with the printed story, i find myself able to graze and return to it later or spend a lot of time with it on my own terms.

By: jnau

jnau — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:59:09 +0000

Actually I haven't seen an Amazon Kindle, and there's my point. Amazon Kindle exists in the US. Nowhere else. When will it arrive here in Australia? I don't know. When will it arrive in Asia? Africa? Mauritius? It's a dangerous assumption to believe that because such technologies exist in one place, it exists everywhere. There is still a place for print.

The second part of that is there are some people like my friend Pascale, that given a choice will still take the newspaper/novel. They like paper, they like the feel of a novel. They like being able to dog ear books, scribble on the pages and take notes. They want to be able to read a book on their camping holiday an not have to worry about whether the book will go flat.

So I take your point that solutions exist, but can you say that the world over every person will want to consume their media the same way you do? So where there is demand, there will be supply.

By: Dean Donaldson

Dean Donaldson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:20:00 +0000

Have you NEVER seen an Amazon Kindle or heard of ePrint… paper went from papyrus to monolitho to full colour… next?