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CNN asked viewers to respond to: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
Here is my quick, obvious, response:

Today, newspapers are too big and too slow to survive.
The reporters, photographers, infographics specialists and editors with newspapers need to survive. They are experts in gathering essential news and conveying it effectively to the masses.
Most of these professional […]

How do newspapers gain a bigger audience and sustain it?
Be the “EveryInfo” for your readers. It’s like the term “Everyman.”
By “EveryInfo,” I mean the place where an individual goes to get all the information one wants and needs.
Newspapers need to act like comprehensive libraries. Huge databases of breaking news, recent new and historical news. Databases […]

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Investor’s Business Daily published this article, “After all this interactivity, look out for Web 3.0 leap,” in their June 4, 2007, print edition, yet it’s worth noting here.
Though you have to subscribe to Investor’s Business Daily website, investors.com, to read the full article on their website, topix published the complete article.
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For a month or so, I’ve been wanting to write about Newspaper Association of America’s effort to reach more readers across as many platforms through their multi-media campaign, Newspaper. The Multi-Medium.
The campaign comes from the advertising point of view, “Where today’s readers go, today’s advertisers follow,” and cites various statistics from readership to advertising sales […]

This week I received the latest, “Design” magazine, the Society of News Design’s quarterly journal, though July 6 SND posted an entry about their cover story, “The Industry Issue.”
This series of articles gives a sober, yet solid, and reassuring take on print journalism’s future, beginning with a wonderful opening note from Scott Goldman, SND president […]

My absence Wednesday was due to being outside of an internet-accessible area. 
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O.K., call me late to dinner.
Though I bumped into this site a few months ago, I only checked it out now.

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This site is similar to marumushi’s newsmap in that is visualizes the news.
With marumushi’s model, the more stories on a particular topic, the larger […]

Discovered this video at the Australian site, librariesinteract, which is focusing on what will libraries be like in 2010.
See/read more future visions or submit your own.

Andrew Finegan is the dude behind this future library vision.
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Had to post this pithy slideshow. To watch, you need to hit the forward arrow to head to the next slide.

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