NEWS REFURBISHING (4#) -

From Seattle to the Upper East Side NYC . . .

With an artist's speculative rendering of Benjamin Franklin holding up an iPhone to your attention, the forward-looking gang at the NY Observer discusses the current newspaper situation and explores the potential expansion of newspapers into additional dimensions as a way of
saving them.

NB: The Observer seems to have changed its Internet formatting this week. If you were used to its previous incarnation, the change may startle you.

:: Man Bites Blog, their centerpiece
article, links to some other related articles.

# Eli Sanders at The Seattle Stranger weekly newspaper discusses a hypothetical P-I Online. Since Hearst has hired the Yahoo News guy, I presume they have something webby in mind.

# Could Twitter be
a threat to Google? by Chris O'Brien [merc]

# Twoogling: Google on Twitter [sej]

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