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title: "The evolution of wood-pulp media"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/the-evolution-of-wood-pulp-media
published: 2009-06-20
summary: "Print is too slow for the news. What it can still offer is thinking, and the Kindle might be how it gets delivered."
---

# The evolution of wood-pulp media

I think a way out of the crisis for paper media could be [Amazon's Kindle](http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Generation/dp/B00154JDAI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\&s=electronics\&qid=1245530589\&sr=8-1), only slightly improved. I don't know for sure whether it can sync with a PC over Bluetooth right now, but that would be useful.

Say I want to read *Wired* on my Kindle. I subscribe to the sections I'm interested in, by RSS, for example. And Google, being a cutting-edge company, has by then improved Google Reader so that it can sync with the Kindle.

Now one more important detail. The drawback of paper media compared with electronic media is that they give the reader information in discrete portions (a new issue comes out on Mondays, say), while blogs publish within a few hours of the event that made the news, not to mention [microblogs](http://twitter.com/stasparshin "My Twitter, for example :)") that broadcast information in real time. Everything is heading toward information moving faster and faster, and the printing press is too slow, a relic of the 1.0 era.

On the other hand, there's the need for quality reflection on events, which blogs often (so far) can't provide, and that's what traditional media should hold on to. Nothing new, really :)