Strange things are happening out there in newspaper land, according to Norah Young in her Spark interview with Dan Pachenko on CBC this afternoon. You can find Young's interview already on the Printcasting website: http://www.printcasting.com, or the CBC podcast at http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/01/episode-64-january-28-31-2009. Check it out. Really interesting.
So, contrary to popular belief, the newspaper is not dead. People are now taking blogs and turning them into newspapers. Who would have thunk it? Ben Terrett has dont this in England.
With the help of Printcasting (check out the above-mentioned website), it will be posible for anyone "to create a local print newspaper, magazine or newsletter wiht local ads. No money, tools or design are required. Only passion!"
This has also been done in Chicago and San Francisco
And I'll leave the last word about this new phenomenon to the Latino community:
Printcasting.com promueve la edición en papel en la era digital - Periodismo Ciudadano [...] adiós al papel no parece tan sencillo, de hecho Printcasting nace para “hacer más relevante la impresión en la era digital”. En la portada de la [...]
A mas tarde,
Roberto
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