Printing is Dead... Long Live Knowledge

I'm waiting for it to come out in audio...

Is the growing dependence of "free knowledge" driving us away from book stores and making us only consider finding information online? Will flyers, white papers and reports only be published online?

For now I think we are safe, but in the years to come I think the "printed book" may disappear as the primary source of information and anyone with a connection to the internet will discover the knowledge they need on the net.

Check out this information from Jian Ghomeshi's blog on the subject.

THE END: PRINT

Citizen journalism: the blogosphere

One of the biggest threats to print is the sheer volume and variety of writing that can be found online. By starting a 'blog' or web journal, anyone can became a writer and publish their work for others to see at no cost. Markos Moulitsas is a blogger for Daily Kos, a webblog that analyzes U.S. political events from a left wing perspective. "I never would have had this kind of platform in a traditional world. I didn't have money, connections, to become some kind of pundit." Daily Kos is one of the top five blogs in the world and around election time attracts millions of readers a day - more than many traditional media outlets.

"Who in their right mind would give a stay-at-home mom the audience that I have crafted for myself?" wonders Heather B. Armstrong. She was dooced - or fired - from her job as a web designer because she wrote about her work and office-mates on her blog, Dooce.com. And now her blog makes enough money from advertising to support her family. "I do think it's opening up more voices and opportunities for people who wouldn't be published otherwise."

For the full blog please check out this link.