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Internet evolution

Prophecy can be risky business

He could hardly have been further off target the guy who, in an elaborate Op-Ed in Dagens Naeringsliv in August 1996, claimed the Internet is "a fashion thing that will die in a few years." Ten years on, a survey by Journalisten reveals that Norway now has more online newspapers than printed ones. Journalisten counted 284, or 297 if they included the 13 different local sites of The Norwegian Broadcasting corporation (NRK), online papers compared to 266 printed papers. Still, as late as 1998, the Op-Ed writer in question, insisted that his prediction of the Internet's imminent demise would soon be proved. Journalist Paul Leveraas on the other hand, writes (in Norwegian) that in 1996, he and others, predicted the imminent death of the newspaper, but ten years on he concludes that whereas they expected a revolution what they got was a digital evolution – and predicting the future is not for the faint-hearted.

Comments

Kristine,

Got into your blog via Greenslade. Good job!
Just a quick suggestion: shouldn't be interesting for you to show the Society For News Design and the SND/Scandinavia links in your list? News Design is usually a forgotten area of the trade. And there are so many scandinavian guys doing pretty nice news design...
www.snd.org
www.snds.org

Cheers

Toni Pique

Thanks. I'll look into it.

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