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Digital editions of print publications don’t work

I see that PC Magazine is following other tech publications like InfoWorld and PC World Australia in ditching the print editions. The reason is cost apparently: it’s too expensive to produce paper magazines and get them to customers, according to PC Mag’s Editor in Chief, Lance Ulanoff.
Production and delivery costs are probably not the only [...]

Postman knocks

I was talking to my friend Peter Griffin about the gloomy state of media today, when he reminded me of Neil Postman and Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman died in 2003 which is a shame, as he made some acute observations early on about media that I rather like. For instance, he wrote:
“Information has become a [...]