Similar technology is used in Optimus Maximus keyboard. And it is only a start. Here are some pictures of a laptop with customizable OLED keyboard:

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I agree they’ll probably be pushed out as technology warrants, but I see them around for a long time, if not forever if they embrace new technologies…

With that in mind, I rarely read through a regular newspaper without wondering what the real story is. Once you lose that trust level, it’s hard to regain. Tell me the news, the facts, don’t spin the facts one way or another – just give me all of the information. And if you find out that you were wrong on a really “important” story, don’t bury the correction in the middle of the paper or in some lame 5-second clip in the News broadcast.

Personally, my main reason for getting a paper weekly is to get the coupons from them. There’s still not a better way to pick up coupons without a newspaper. When I do that, I also read the comics .

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He is imploring them to wakeup to the realities of the business. The problem is many of the people he’s dealing with in journalism are really a bunch of children who were told at a very early age that everything has to be fair. They are stuck in that mode. Evan Sayet calls them Modern Liberals.

Watch Evan’s talk at

http://www.yout...h?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

where he describes this mindset. The video is all about this Modern Liberal philosophy that has taken over a lot of people. People have said for years that many journalists were “save the world” types. It’s really not about saving the world, it’s about making sure everything is equal. Zell is upsetting the applecart because these people think things are going to get better all by themselves.

Please watch Evan’s talk. The Q&A at the end is good too. (I have posted a link here to Evan’s talk before, but it seems to explain so much that I think it’s important for people to see it.)

Some of the cream of the crop are still holding their own, like the WSJ and USA Today, each with more than two million daily readers. I believe USA Today actually posted an increase last year. Why? It offers interesting, in-depth content right up front that’s not ‘time sensitive’. Of course they’re desperately trying to maximize their online presence as well. They see the writing on the wall like everyone else. And it continues to fade for most.

But I think the best and most interesting papers and magazines, in combination with top notch online versions, can hold steady over time, or shrink at a much slower rate than most. There are enough consumers still interested in print as a content delivery method. Boomers and Generation Jones (Boomer subset) number 78 million, and all grew up on print. Local papers will continue to die in droves. If they’re smart, they’ll capitalize on their community roots and presence to offer the best hyper local news online, to compete against the likes of EveryBlock.

I still love to papers and mags. But I’ll never get them for the ‘latest news’. If they have interesting, in depth pieces and relevant, unique content, I’ll continue to plunk down some quarters each week. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to spend 90 percent of my ‘information soaking’ time online, via my laptop and new Nokia N95-3.

For example – I certainly don’t use the net to go hunting who was murdered lately or who died recently. Yet virtually every single day, I read of at least 2 or 3 separate and violent murders (usually in San Jose, SF, Oakland or Richmond areas). Most often, the weapon of choice is a gun.

Seeing stories likes this gives a better view of the world we live in. IT helps to recognize that not everyone is above average in intelligence, has a cushy white collar technology job and/or lives in a safe, suburban neighborhood.

There also seems to have been a noticeable increase over the last 6 months or so in the number of people listed in the obit’s. Some were quite young and in the prime of their life but succumbed to cancer, heart attach, tumor, etc. Again, these are only some items that I normally wouldn’t search for on the net or be aware of. Makes one think.

The SF Chronicle (the paper I read) recently made a number of changes to lower the cost of producing the paper. One real strange and annoying change was to print the business section BACKWARDS On Monday’s and Tuesday’s at the rear of the Sport’s section. They claim this leads to more efficient printing. I find it weird to read backward. I guess this shows how troubled the SF Chronicle finances are.

Mike, can’t you find a decent writer from this part of the world or at least provide a separate RSS excluding Duncan’s musings?

You cheapen the meaning of “deadpool watch” when you cite 5 – 10 years
as the time print papers will be spiraling downward; with that length of
outlook, likely more than half the companies TC covers are on “deadpool
watch.”

Print papers will have 5 – 10 years left based on their current
readership if they do next to nothing. They’re no longer doing next to
nothing. They’ll shrink and morph, many will die off in their current
incarnation. Many will find
success once they alter their models appropriately.

The deadpool’s a handy tool; please don’t water down its meaning.

My fear though is that soon news organisations won’t be able to afford to pay journalists, and serious investigative, journalism will also join the deadpool. That would be a shame.

the survey is probably inaccurate of those people they surveyed where did they live, what age group and what social class all of that plays a factor in these surveys I take journalism classes and we go over things like that

They probably got some people from the same social class age group and ethnicity there was probably no detail in this to get correct info from different classes and age groups because i think that the results would be different.

Dailies really picked up during the industrial revolution when production and distribution made it economically feasible.

One more note:

Imagine any industry where you told the owners that you had a method for them to turn their distribution costs to zero. They’d be thrilled.
Here, it’s like a death sentence.

I’m talking more about news over at my new blog if you are interested:

htpp://gangbuster.org/blog/

That said, this isn’t surprising. My only concern is exactly where people get their news online. Like someone said, going to NYT.com makes me more comfortable than say, someone telling and retelling “news” from The Onion. Though I guess there are those that swear by rag papers in print nowadays.

As a recruiter I try and keep an eye on where people get their information. it’s no secret that the readership of newspaper classified ads in general has been plummeting for years – as has the number of those just getting their daily news in print.

I used to have a daily ritual of rising early to go unwrap the paper and thumb through it for news of interest over a morning cup of coffee before leaving for work.
Now? I’m simply thumbing through my blackberry for keyword rss feeds while on my morning commute – and my blackberry doesn’t leave ink on my hands.

In my humble (but correct) opinion the trend away from print isn’t a curve – it’s a cliff.