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Ballmer Predicts Death of Printed Media

Little known fact (that we just made up): Steve Ballmer once had a newspaper thrown through his front window. After eating the newspaper delivery boy and his entire family , Ballmer sat down with to chat about the future with The Washington Post. And among other things, he pegged a date for the death of printed media: 10 years from now. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,046 views, 79 comments

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The Digital Newsstand

This super-cool project by some dude takes an old newspaper box and hooks up a 17-inch monitor to it so he can get digital headlines every day. Inside the box he stores the monitor, a Mac mini, and speakers/subwoofer for some audio as well. Using AppleScript, he fetches the front-page news of various other newspapers from Newseum so he can get a quick view of what's going on every morning. More »

3:20 PM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Jason Chen
3,477 views, 18 comments

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New York Times, Others Coming to an e-Reader Near You Soon?

While the idea of actually holding onto a newspaper may still be appealing to some, those of us living in the year 2006 may want to give the tradition of reading the morning paper a little bit of an upgrade. Various newspapers, including the financial newspaper De Tijd in Belgium and the New York Times in the United States, are beginning to experiment with making e-paper versions of their newspapers available to subscribers. More »

6:12 PM on Mon Apr 24 2006
By Gizloco
471 views, 7 comments