McNeely sent this to me, because she knew I was probably sitting around and feeling sad for no reason. I’m working on it.

So many good quotes. Here’s a couple and I’m adding as I’m reading.

I think this is the core:

The ability of institutions to adapt slowly while preserving continuity of mission and process is exactly what lets them last longer than a single leader or lifespan. When change in the outside world outstrips an institution’s adaptive capabilities, though, the ability to defend the internal organization from outside pressures can become a liability. Stability can tun into rigidity and even institutional blindness.

I love this:

Saying newspapers will provide a stable home for reporters, just as soon as we figure out how to make newspapers stable, is like saying that if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread.

I literally LOL’d:

No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.

You’re speaking my language:

Plan B follows Jonathan Stray’s observations about the digital public sphere: in a world where Wikipedia is a more popular source of information than any newspaper, maybe we won’t have a clear center anymore. Maybe we’ll just have lots of overlapping, partial, competitive, cooperative attempts to arm the public to deal with the world we live in.

I did not know that.

Reader discretion is advised. Kinda NSFW.

Via McNeely.