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"When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem." -- Gordy Thompson

New Media thinker Clay Shirkey has written a fascinating essay, "Newspapers and the Unthinkable" on the future (or lack thereof) of newspapers.

In it, he addresses some of the very issues that I myself have been thinking about: how newspapers are in total meltdown because of the web and services like Craigslist, how the Internet is a revolution every bit as profound as the Gutenberg Press, and how the question of "How do we save newspapers?" is the wrong question to be asking -- because newspapers are dying, and that process probably can't be stopped. The question should be, "How do we replace the essential function of newspapers?"

And the scary answer is: We don't know yet.

( Ganked from BoingBoing )

My birth announcement in the newspaper

Going through my files, I found this newspaper clipping from 1968.

Even though I was born in Topeka, Kansas, I count Manhattan, Kansas, as my hometown. The only reason I was born at Stormont-Vail is that my mother, an OB-GYN nurse, didn't want to have me where she worked, at St. Mary's hospital in Manhattan. My first home was in Manhattan, on Juliette Ave., which is the address listed on my birth certificate. I have never lived in Topeka.
The text reads:In Topeka
Hospital Births

St. Francis
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Runnebaum, 4509 E. 45th, girl, March 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lindeman, 2742 Illinois, boy and girl, March 23.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cober, 645 Sumner, girl, March 23.

Stormont-Vail
Mr. and Mrs. William Welchhans, 5500 W. 19th, girl, march 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Jacobs, Manhattan, boy, March 23.
(From the Topeka Capital-Journal, March 24, 1968)

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'How do we save newspapers?' is the wrong question!

My birth announcement in the newspaper, 1968

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