my reading between the lines says you already agree with laura Ingraham’s opinion and so, you were disposed to like her blog (which followed , what 72 hours on the ground?

do you think Laura and other bloggers are willing and able to cover news around the globe in a “fair, newsy” way 24/7?

doubt it.

my guess is that you and many others have just chosen to believe the traditional press corps is no longer capable of delivering fair news and so you are happy with your opinions being reflected back to you?

I agree there is plenty of reason to distrust and question the MSM, but there are equal and obvious reasons to treat bloggers with the same skepticism.

and I, like many others, worry that if we don’t have journalists doing traditional journalists jobs, the public simply will not be well informed.

look at the pew study for a hint to the future….despite all the zillions of internet and blogger sites, we actually have more folks chasing FEWER stories.

that’s because everyone (including the Times and the bloggers) are seeking eyeballs and follow the herd more than they did before. it’s an amazing irony.

i hope journalists see the future and embrace it before its too late.

They continued the printing business in conjunction with their bicycle and aviation interests until 1899 when the printing business was sold.

Two newspaper printers and bicycle mechanics were responsible for one of the most profound and extraordinary inventions in human history: the airplane. They got a whole lot of press over the years.

END OF HOMEWORK.

The news will continue to be produced. The computer of the future will be printed. The computer will become more like the news in terms of production. The news, for better or worse, will be printed. The methods may change, but it will all rely on printing technology. The Times are changing, so are the computers. The number of reporters using the technology doesn’t matter. They will use what is being deployed. Everyone doesn’t want to be a reporter. It’s lots of work for little pay. If you do it right it is difficult work and often dangerous too. That’s why there are so few really good reporters. You have people shooting, threats, stuff blowing up, crazies and all sorts of occupational dangers for 50K a year. Then the new wavers and bloggies all say screw you, stick your paper up yours. A lot of blood, sweat and tears goes into that paper for you. It’s a thankless job.
END OF REPORT

February 8, 2005

TEMPE, Ariz. (Army News Service, Feb. 8, 2005) – The Army officially opened a “Flexible Display Center” at Arizona State University Feb. 4 to develop thin computer screens that bend.

Claude Bolton, assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, joined Arizona state and university officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new center. Bolton said flexible, lightweight displays will have an endless array of military and commercial uses.

“Military applications include computer screens that could be integrated as part of a Soldier’s uniform or rolled up and carried in the Soldier’s pocket, and vehicle displays that are thinner, lighter, more rugged and consume less power,” Bolton said.

The Flexible Display Center is the result of a $43.7-million cooperative agreement between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Arizona State University. The agreement, signed in February 2004, has a performance period of five years with an option for an additional $50 million over an added five-year period.

Although the Army provides core funding for the center, the center’s focus is on commercial applications. The Army is leading the effort because there is strong overlap between military needs and potential civilian markets.

The displays are essentially extremely thin computer screens, that will be “integrated with computation, communications and global positioning subsystems,” said Army Research Laboratory Director John Miller, “to significantly enhance the Soldier’s situational awareness, survivability and effectiveness.”

Bolton called the development of the FDC a milestone.

“The Army’s flexible display center, a unique collaboration of large and small businesses, the university and the Army, will provide our Soldiers and our nation with revolutionary information technology capabilities,” Bolton said.

Bolton said he remembered the primitive displays used in cockpits when he served as an Air Force fighter pilot in Vietnam, saying he flew with computer displays that consisted of a flat glass panel.

“All that is about to change,” Bolton said, adding that maybe next year he’ll be watching the Superbowl on an FD screen.

Michael Crow, ASU president, said the new technology could improve situational awareness in the future for Soldiers like former NFL star and ASU alumnus Spc. Pat Tillman, who died last year while serving with an Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan.

“The FDC brings together academia, industry and government to develop what, in essence, will be revolutionary information portals – devices that are small, lightweight, rugged and consume very little power, but they will be very powerful in that they will hold the key to successful military operations – real-time information,” Crow said.

J.D. Hayworth, representative from Arizona’s fifth congressional district said the development of the FDC was about immediacy.

“This center is about bringing the technology to the warfighter – now!” he said. “Whatever the war’s duration, our mission is to ensure that we provide technology now to ensure freedom for the future.”

Brig. Gen. Roger Nadeau of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, said his goal is to use technology to take care of Soldiers.

“I need to provide them the best that money and technology can procure,” he said. “Flexible displays are the next revolution in information technology that will enable lighter weight, lower power, more rugged systems for portable and vehicle applications.”

Nadeau said flexible display technology will enable new applications for the Soldier and Army platforms that cannot be realized with current glass-based displays.

The new applications will include body-worn displays that conform to the uniform, displays that can be rolled-up and put in a pocket when not in use and unrolled for large-area, high information content, as well as many other applications that Army engineers and scientists are now considering.

Dr. Gregory Raupp, the FDC’s director, said the technology will ultimately be developed to the commercial level.

“There are multiple technological challenges to making these devices fully flexible, lightweight and extremely low power, but we have the right university, industry and government team in place and we are confident we can meet those challenges,” he said.

“The outstanding capabilities of our facility and its manufacturing R&D infrastructure will enable us to work side-by-side with our partners to intensively develop new breakthrough technologies,” he said.

(Editor’s note: Maj. Desiree Wineland, Office of the Chief of Public Affairs, contributed to this article.)

Traditional newspapers on the cutting edge will be early adopters of FCD’s. This technology is where to invest for the long haul. Paper has at least another decade, so don’t get ahead of your time. Even after news is all on FCD, paper will persist.

So Craigslist will open a Baghdad bureau after it buries the Times?

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The Buy / Sell ads will give us a large advance in what that particular part of IRAQ is really like …

… than the Times and its bureau has ‘fixed up to print’.

One would expect

No wonder this newspaper is on the front lines of media transformation. Thanks a lot, Jeff, for pointing to this excellent lecture.

The advantages journalists have; time to do research, access to resources, and i’m told they studied how to do the job, are not used at all in Australia. This is why they’re irrelevant and destined for the dump.