News on the Go
"Vin Crosbie -- he of the Dick Tracy watch -- goes so far as to predict that Web publishing will be subsumed by a third wave of electronic publishing. (The first wave, lasting from the 1980s to the early '90s, was the era of proprietary online services, chiefly Prodigy, Compuserve and America Online. The second wave began in 1993, when news organizations slowly started appearing on the Web.)
And what will make up this killer third wave? "Pervasive portable media," says Crosbie, a media consultant in Greenwich, Conn. "The Web will become the lesser online medium for commercial publications beginning in the second half of this decade...." [Online Journalism Review]
Pay close attention to this article, because it again highlights how similar libraries and newspapers are. Both traffic in information, and both need to "shift" to where their audience consumes it. I'm quoting heavily from this article, but it mirrors my own thinking perfectly The NetGens are going to have a huge impact on information delivery as they grow up. It's good to see more people sounding the wake up call for the news industry. Libraries need to start focusing on "the new breed of inofrmation consumer, too." That's my wake up call to you.
Special thanks to Marylaine for sending me this link!. [The Shifted Librarian]
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