Future to Newspapers: Jump in the river
The idea seems to be: for news not to be olds, it needs to be as close to live as possible. Therefore, within a year, all newspapers will have “Newsrivers”, which are some kind of unspecified technology that is somehow part of the “live web” and not the “static web”.
I don’t know about you, but I feel like this is old news, or olds, as the article calls it. It seems like he wants papers to cover things as they progress, on the web (this isn’t new; various newspapers and online only sites do this already) and they should offer it as a stream. Ever heard of feeds? What about link blogs?
This article is filled with buzz. Still, if it gets to claim some insight, it’s gotta be that people would like live coverage. So, a simple headline with a link to an article being continually updated will do if it’s about what happens now.
Apart from the River metaphor, though, this article is old news. In its own words, it’s part of the “static web”: it’s what happened, not what’s happening.
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