Jeff Jarvis continues his series on "new news" with a strong foundational post on what needs to be done with the old crushed-tree product. It's a thorough rundown of the basics. My only issues with it are:
- It doesn't go far enough. But Jarvis makes that clear himself and promises to go deeper in future posts, particularly in the key areas of tapping in to community voices and drilling down into hyperlocal content.
- It skates a bit close to a dangerous edge in the area of nonlocal feature content. Newspapers aren't websites and they play a different role in readers' lives. One of the key reasons people read newspapers is to have a portable way to entertain themselves -- in a cafe, on a bus, in the can, whatever. I think comics and advice columns will play a more persistent role than most of what comes over the wires today.
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Steve, yes, there's are much deeper mines to mine. This is a very occasional series and I'll get there.
Yes, if we take the entertainment point to a fuller extent, then it should extend past paper, eh? I said recently that if the Guardian can produce Ricky Gervais, then The Times should have produced Seinfeld, eh?