[Ipg-smz] Things that suck

[Lynn Greiner]

The ongoing challenge with online media is that file formats and storage media change with little thought to backwards compatibility. Think Zip drives, multiple floppy formats, etc. At one point, IBM had a project underway to make it possible to read mag tapes, regardless of format, by including a reader on the tape – must find out what happened to that. Print, OTOH, stays readable.

 

 

From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Tom Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:27 AM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Things that suck

 

People keep reading. This is the most important thing. The medium is the message, said one of my profs, eons ago.

We get different medium, so long as we get the message without barriers, life is ok. 

Those awesome Heidelberger Druckmachinen were brilliant pieces of engineering. Paper, however, is a disposal and environmental problem to continue to nourish the cafe table occupants. 

This all said, the browser as a media consumption device is both fantastic for its multimedia uses, and its form factor is the complete pits. Foldable OLEDs are on their way, and I can't wait. 

Not being in print isn't a death knell, so much as a chasm that must be crossed into the browser, successfully.

Tom

 

On 1/22/19 10:18 AM, Ken Hess wrote:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-forward-is-ending-its-print-edition-laying-off-staff/

Print is dead; long live print. 

 

Thanks,

 

Ken

 

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