What do you do when there is more information out there than there are qualified brains to produce it? Apparently, you increase the information while firing 30% of your brains.
The NYT reports (via SAI) that The Capital Times in Madison Wisconsin is going wholly online.
That all sounds pretty logical, people get their news online, sure, I get that. What doesn’t make any sense is
The Capital Times will operate a nearly continuous Web newsroom
plus
More than 20 members of the newsroom staff lost their jobs
So, congratulations Madison, the quality of your news was just reduced by 30%. The good news is, you’ll be getting that 60%-effort (cue 3-D graphics and thundering voice) Con…c-c-c-c-cConcakconnnnnCONSTANTLY. Lucky you, Madison.
Don’t pull your dongs out just yet, rest of the country, because those digit-eyed kids over at Silicon Alley Insider are convinced that the New York Times, Washington Post and everyone else who still filters our information for us are headed for the same fate.
Today, the Internet will publish more news, with fewer Brains.