Newspapers and Texting

In The Post-American World , Fareed Zakaria writes that Indian newspapers are booming “a rare oasis of growth for print journalism—and overflowing with stories about businessmen, technological fads, fashion designers, shopping malls, and of course, Bollywood (which now makes more movies a year than Hollywood).”

From what I know of India today, the Indians who might read a newspaper aren’t less technologically advanced than we are. I wonder what newspapers in India are doing differently than those here which are losing readership in torrents. Maybe the papers there are giving the reader what he wants?

How will the the next generation communicate?

Christopher Ellis, my grandson, graduated from middle school last week. He’s a good kid and was valedictorian so his parents awarded him with his own cell phone. In the first 3 hours of ownership, he got 123 text messages. Using only his thumbs, he types faster than I do using all ten digits. What does this mean for those of us in the communication biz?

Interested in the future of the world and exactly what Zakaria is talking about in The Post-American World? Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U