http://strange.corante.com/2006/01/25/thank-you-for-that-kind-introduction Picking out patterns in the chaos Wed, 16 May 2012 20:50:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://strange.corante.com/2006/01/25/thank-you-for-that-kind-introduction#comment-5202 Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » Future of journalism: Uncertain but not hopeless Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:59:21 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/01/25/thank-you-for-that-kind-introduction#comment-5202 [...] As a journalist who I am sure has been (and possibly still is) considered ‘barking mad’ by some of my colleagues in the industry, quite a bit of what Clay Shirky wrote in his post about newspapers thinking the unthinkable resonated with me. I’m still digesting it because I think the main thrust of what he said was that the industry is entering a period of great uncertainty. I saw this day coming in August of 1993 when I saw Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, in a student computer lab at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. As I wrote in my first post here on Strange Attractor, I knew that the web would fundamentally change journalism. [...] [...] As a journalist who I am sure has been (and possibly still is) considered ‘barking mad’ by some of my colleagues in the industry, quite a bit of what Clay Shirky wrote in his post about newspapers thinking the unthinkable resonated with me. I’m still digesting it because I think the main thrust of what he said was that the industry is entering a period of great uncertainty. I saw this day coming in August of 1993 when I saw Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, in a student computer lab at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. As I wrote in my first post here on Strange Attractor, I knew that the web would fundamentally change journalism. [...]

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