The newspapers are dead meme redux:

I realise I'm making something of a collection of references to this concept.

It's happening around me, and I can smell it on the wind. Finish up and die already!

Read the rest of the article. There are more gems within it.

Hopefully the newspapers might see it too and kill themselves?

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

The curious thing about the various plans hatched in the ’90s is that they were, at base, all the same plan: “Here’s how we’re going to preserve the old forms of organization in a world of cheap perfect copies!” The details differed, but the core assumption behind all imagined outcomes (save the unthinkable one) was that the organizational form of the newspaper, as a general-purpose vehicle for publishing a variety of news and opinion, was basically sound, and only needed a digital facelift. As a result, the conversation has degenerated into the enthusiastic grasping at straws, pursued by skeptical responses.

Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work.

Reversing the conduit: using a megaphone won't work

Why is it that I find things so much more succinct than I can say them?

I’m Into Something Good: A Saturday Stroll about Recommendations

What would the world be like if we spent time encouraging each other rather than the opposite? Think about it.

>SNIP<

In the age of television, in a broadcast paradigm, all this was understandable. But in the age of the internet, in a network paradigm, it is no longer so.

That switch from broadcast to network, why do firms find that concept so hard to grasp?

It's a core difference between the old way and the way of now, and I feel it's a large part of the current economic climate: because we're still largely broadcasting, whilst our correspondents, clients and would be listeners are networked, but unplugged from the broadcast.

How do we plug our firms into the network again?

Honestly, by listening and offering value to the network rather than seeking value from the network, and by being good network citizens.

Time to network and re-connect boys and girls...

Educating the future

The future is coming soon

5) The education system we currently have was built to train the industrial worker. As we move to an information driven society it is high time to question everything about the process by which we educate our society. That process and the systems that underlie it will look very different by the time our children's children are in school.A VC, Mar 2009

I think this is right, I haven't been so succinct, but he's absolutely right, education is wrong for what we need from it, because we've moved on whilst it hasn't. Let's see what we get, and take what part we can in the future. See the whole thing and follow some of the other links here