PrintJuly 17, 2005
Cover Girl
The newspaper industry is very, very slowly coming to grips with the rise of a new technology which delivers news cheaper, faster, interactively, using lower cost (in fact, usually free) labor. A reading of the history of industrial structure suggests that any survivors of this transformation will be drawn from the ranks of those who best understand the new competition and find niche functions which cannot be performed by the newcomers.
Thus, serious press attention to the blogosphere is rare.
Our friend Betsy Newmark, of Betsy's Page, is a cover girl this morning on the Washington Post Sunday Magazine. David von Drehle wrote a cover story on blogging. The article
