the best thing that could have happened to newspapers…

…was the creation of the internet. The web’s been around well over a decade and practically every newspaper seems to still think it was the worst thing that could have happened to them. The important thing about newspapers - as I naively thought - was reporting on the news, not the physical manifestation of that on dead trees. Newspapers would have to be pretty silly to let non-news organizations usurp them completely on news, right?

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine - a much-needed article, although I’m still reading it. One the one side, privacy is now in crisis mode, with everything publicly available; on the other hand, the younger generation is paradigm shifting, and embrases the privacylessness wholeheartedly.

If a tree falls, and it is doesn’t have a permalink, did it really happen? How would we know if it did, there’s not even a video of it…

Via Jeremy Zawodny’s linkblog.