Think! has moved to The Future of Print

I've had it with this blog. Too much time writing and ranting when what I actually want is just a place to gather my thoughts.

You can find that place at The Future of Print.

Unlike Think! it won't be offering it's own commentary - I'll leave you to fill in the gaps - but it will be a one stop shop for anyone concerned about the future of print, and in particular, the future of the NYT and the IHT.

I'm running a bit behind the news curve but over the coming weeks I hope to catch up with all the developments of 2009.

I'll be keeping it pretty minimal and relying on a handful of newsletters to keep me and you in the loop. Hopefully I'll be up to date soon, but I'm not too worried about being behind for a little while - so is every newspaper in the world and c. 90% of the content of their websites.

And besides, if you look at the archives of Think! you will see that Think! was far ahead of the newscurve on issues that have broken out in 2009: not-for-profit newspapers, fears of the NYT Company going bust, paid content and micropayments being just a few examples.

In the spirit of demonstrating that the future of the Internet (as a business model) is far from assured, at The Future of Print I'll be ripping stuff I can get for free off the Net and aggregating it there.

(And to all you advertisers on Mediabistro, I just want to let you know that I can't recall a single advert on it and I look at it EVERY DAY; but I can remember the LVuitton 4-c full back page ad in this week's IHT. Nice yacht, nice environment and yes, nice watch.)

If someone wants to show me how Internet CPMs can pay for a 1,300 person newsroom and multiple foreign bureaus, then I'm all ears.

If somoene wants to show me high impact advertising on the Internet, again, I'm all eyes.

The group think is that print is dead. It is. In it's current form. But group think has a terrific track record of being dead wrong rather than more or less right.

(Thanks PG for that: the only thing I remember you ever saying that made any sense - the bit about 'better to be more or less right than dead wrong', not group think.)


Print, in fact, is far from dead full-stop.

Video did not kill the radio star.