What a beautiful - and true - essay. When I started at The State News (the college paper at Michigan State) they'd just gone from no computers at all to Compugraphic VDTs and they were selling the old manual typewriters for $30...

Fast forward about 15 years and a friend worked at a big union, where they were disguarding their 486 PCs and selling them for $30..

It all changes so fast. Technically, every person with a Twitter or Facebook account is a newspaper publisher now, picking and choosing their stories/content.. But who can keep up with all those sources? I miss our old "real" newspapers.