Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis of HypergeneMediaBlog have produced an excellent overview of Our Current Dilemma titled The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It? It was written for Nieman Reports, so perhaps it will find its way into the consciousness of some newspaper editors who avoid this messy blog world.

Some key points, and some reactions:

Chicago's Sun-Times is killing the free newspaper Red Streak, which it launched hurriedly in an attempt to counter the Tribune's Redeye. In Iowa, Lee Enterprises is shutting down Your Mom, a very cool project that was built in conjunction with Northwestern University (but it's keeping the website). Lost Remote takes notice of this and concludes "young people do not want print."

Several years ago, out of frustration with available options, I wrote my own blogging software. Writing your own solution gives you at least the promise of getting exactly what you asked for. But it's not cheap, even if you aren't paying somebody else to do it. Keeping up with a changing world is expensive.