Crumbling media

Recently, the science journal Nature had an article about the decline of mainstream media for science journalism. The Columbia Journal Review picked up on that, and posted an interesting article about ti themselves. It features a discussion of our very own Hive Overmind, Discover Magazine blogs, including statements by Carl Zimmer, who writes The Loom. I actually don't have too much to add here, mostly because I've said it before. Print media is dying, and people are analyzing it to death, but the cause is clear: for the most part, old media simply doesn't get new media. They don't understand it. They tried to take their content and just dump it online, but that didn't work, and it took them too long to figure out why. Seed magazine understood it and created ScienceBlogs, and our own Discover Magazine figured it out as well. I love reading magazines and newspapers, but ...