Did you hear about The Capital Times, an afternoon daily paper in Madison, Wis.?
The 90-year-old newspaper dumped its print edition and became an online-only newspaper.
How much longer before all newspapers permanently stop the presses and start reporting 100-percent online?
Who would blame them?
For example, here at the nimble-and-quick Food for Thought we have no worries of rising paper costs.
We have no worries of buying tanker cars full of ink.
We have no worries about propping up aging, nearly obsolete presses.
We have no worries about climbing gas prices and the increased transportation costs to lug truck-loads of papers to increasingly fewer subscribers.
We have no worries about sending money to some money-eating corporate giant.
Online stories can run as many column inches as necessary to report the news.
Online stories soar high above static pieces of stale newspaper to deliver sound, video, links, slide shows and updates.
Online readers can interact immediately with online writers.
Online advertisers can know exactly how many readers saw their ads.
Online’s elasticity stretches around the globe and pulls us close.
Online, the world is our newsroom; e-volving all the time.
