GeekGirl and I are discussing the future of online vs hard copy (yes I know, not an original discussion these days, but one that's still interesting).
I lluurrve books.
I am a complete bibliophile.
I love the way they look sitting on shelves.
I love the well-fingered ones with pages falling loose.
My bedroom is a fire hazard and I can't BEAR to give away books, or borrow them because I HAVE TO OWN THEM ALL!
All of them I tell you! Muah ha ha ah HAH!
I even keep library books longer than I should.
Ok, done now.
It's a very interesting discussion, especially in the newspaper business where we're being told get online or kiss it all goodbye.
For print to survive into the online age we must promote ourselves as a integrated service - we want people to want more!
The big nationals are telling us that the people who read daily newspapers online still buy a paper.
They check their news twice, three times a day for updates.
I love blogs - I have to admit it, but anything on the computer is just one more job pulling me away from my work. (must WORK at work)
I love the real-time human nature of blogs, and the allowance to be opinionated and biased or just plain silly - I like my papers to be hard, respectable news and my blogs to be fun, magazine-style sound-bitey jobs.
But isn't it funny that the internet is so 'magaziney' and yet we're still so addicted to magazines.
GeekGirl and I think it is the glossy paper (shiny!) and that lovely smell of ink.
I had to break my magazine habit though when my daughter yelled out from the toilet (where my pile of Cleos was) "Mum, what's an Oh, Rrr, Gh, Ah, Ss...?"
Yes, GeekGirl and I agree, shiny things are good! God, I went into a small room in a woodwind instrument shop, the room being filled with saxophones, trumpets, flutes and etc and nearly had to run out screaming as I was BLINDED by them! Shiny overload!
ReplyDeleteGoogle Reader would be SO improved if it was only shiny! But it has worked, I've kicked the magazine habit....pretty much... :)