I read a fascinating article in The Atlantic during the weekend, talking about the possible implosion to The Times and what its future could be. At some point soon–sooner than many of us think–the print edition, and with it, the Times as we think we know it, will not exist What would a post-print Times look like? Made to make a Net-based technique profitable, a reconstructed site could start mixing original reportage with Times-endorsed reporting from other outlets with straight-up assembly. This would permit the Times to continue to impose its live-from-the-Upper-West-Side brand on the world without having to literally cover each in. of it.

In an upbeat eventuality, the leftover reporters–now reporters-cum-bloggers, in many cases–could use their substantial savvy to mix their own reporting in with that of others, giving us a more integrative, real-time view of the Earth, unfettered by the inefficiencies of the conventional journalistic form. This may be a similar prognostication to what I offered up not long ago, one that I find increasingly interesting.

Ironically, my terribly presence here on scribblewiki may confirm it.

scribblewiki’s Blog Network is crammed with non-scribblewiki workers, like me. That depth will then be picked up by other publications to feed its breadth, whilst they opt to go deep in other areas. Such a technique enables the media to be a lot of things to several folk without needing to go through the load of failing to be all things to all folk.