Journal Adaere's Journal: Future Newspapers 1
According to David Gelernter, professor of Computer Science at Yale and author of
"Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox: How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean", in an article entitled
The Next Great American Newspaper,
there is an opportunity for a new kind of newspaper which truly utilizes the power of modern computers and the internet, instead of the boring versions we have today which are only weak copies of real physical newspapers. What he describes seems similar to a blog to me, but a blog whose technology is more advanced, responding to voice commands. One good point he makes, that we're starting to see, is that people are going to ask themselves, 'Why do I need a new computer? What will it do that my old one doesn't?' I have this attitude myself. My computers are all several years old and are just fine. He writes, "The tycoon who founds America's next great newspaper will help save the computer industry too."
Hmmm... (Score:1)
They update articles. Instead of creating a new article which links to old ones that are related, they quite often just add a little bit of news to it at the top. Or they change the headline for the article repeatedly. That drives me nuts!
What would be nice is to see an article come out with a date/time stamp that I can see, then link to related stories.
On issues I really like to follow on news sites I mig