{"id":1031,"date":"2007-02-27T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/27\/at-least-the-resolution-is-decent\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T16:44:03","slug":"at-least-the-resolution-is-decent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/27\/at-least-the-resolution-is-decent\/","title":{"rendered":"At least the resolution is decent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Howard Owens comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardowens.com\/2007\/its-called-a-news-paper\/\">a link<\/a> to a hilarious post by Amy Gahran at the Poynter Online site (where she edits the E-Media Tidbits feature). In it, she tries to describe this new information-delivery technology called a &#8220;news-paper&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=31&amp;aid=118967\">her skeptical husband<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Check it out,&#8221; I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a different kind of news delivery technology. It&#8217;s called a news-paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How does it work?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have giant printers in Denver that print up thousands of these every day with news that was current as of something called &#8216;press time,&#8217; and then they truck them out to towns, divide the truckloads into cars, and drop them on subscribers&#8217; doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You paid for this?&#8230;&#8221; he frowned, shaking his head. &#8220;How do you search it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not really searchable, but it&#8217;s scannable. See, you can open up the pages wide and see lots of stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like mostly ads.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hilarious. And yet, kind of sobering too. At least by the end, Amy&#8217;s husband grudgingly admits that &#8220;at least the screen resolution is decent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Howard Owens comes a link to a hilarious post by Amy Gahran at the Poynter Online site (where she edits the E-Media Tidbits feature). In it, she tries to describe this new information-delivery technology called a &#8220;news-paper&#8221; to her skeptical husband: &#8220;Check it out,&#8221; I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a different kind of news delivery technology. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/27\/at-least-the-resolution-is-decent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At least the resolution is decent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}