Saturday, October 15, 2005

Ink and Paper or 1s and 0s?

Of course as a blogger I am small and flexible and the WaPo is not, but I was still happy to see that I was talking about the e-paper thing a couple of posts ago. But the discussion of the impact of this on storytelling, complete with its "newspapery" tone paragraph and its "conversational" tone graf examples adds to the mere news that e-paper is here.
Storytelling will change, as well. Long articles such as this, with complete sentences and linguistic device, likely will dwindle in number and be restricted to the remaining newspapers and e-papers. News on small screens, such as that of your cell phone, will spit out in headlines and blurbs and sentences without articles: "Mars rodent attacks NASA probe."
Ink and Paper or 1s and 0s?

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