http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/03/one-man-bands/ by Jeff Jarvis Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:11:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/03/one-man-bands/#comment-354328 Mark Rutledge Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:25:28 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/03/one-man-bands/#comment-354328 ..."someday retirees will decide this is a good way to spend their golden years..." Yes, but it won't be so much a decision as it will be those of us now in the business, who won't be able to afford a retirement. …”someday retirees will decide this is a good way to spend their golden years…”
Yes, but it won’t be so much a decision as it will be those of us now in the business, who won’t be able to afford a retirement.

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/03/one-man-bands/#comment-354151 Steve Boriss Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:37:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/07/03/one-man-bands/#comment-354151 This return of the one-journalist newspaper via online somehow seems inevitable to me. At least "on paper," people ought to be most interested in what's happening in their own communities, and how many people does it really take to cover that? I have this recurring thought that someday retirees will decide this is a good way to spend their golden years and our news will be reported, not by Instapundit Glenn Reynold's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Army-Davids-Technology-Ordinary-Government/dp/1595551131/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6830827-4179812?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183473332&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">"Army of Davids"</a>, but by an "Army of Geezers." No offense intended per your reference to your pre-computer days :) (Steve Boriss, <a href="http://www.thefutureofnews.com" rel="nofollow">The Future of News</a>) This return of the one-journalist newspaper via online somehow seems inevitable to me. At least “on paper,” people ought to be most interested in what’s happening in their own communities, and how many people does it really take to cover that? I have this recurring thought that someday retirees will decide this is a good way to spend their golden years and our news will be reported, not by Instapundit Glenn Reynold’s “Army of Davids”, but by an “Army of Geezers.” No offense intended per your reference to your pre-computer days (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)

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