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The Newspaper is Dead: Long Live the News!

The newsprint newspaper is DEAD!  Let it die!  Bury it.  Let the bugs and worms eat the decaying pulp and let’s move on with our lives and getting the news quick, fast, and deadly on the internet.  As an online author and itinerant publisher, it is delicious to watch the traditional media bandwagon crumble under the weight of their new irrelevancy.  They have their worry beads in hand and their self-flagellation in process and they aren’t waiting to sound their own public death knell on your front stoop and in your mailbox:

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Stalking as the National Pastime

It’s official.  Stalking is the new, national, pastime in America.

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Containing Content

As the world of publishing changes, so too, does the way we create containers for content.  It used to be enough to have paper and ink.  Now we have a virtual world where mere replication is the business recipe of the day, but the real, inherent, power of original content is that it cannot really be contained because it is always transmogrifying into multiple, redistributable forms depending upon end user need and desire.  Content isn’t king.  How the end user changes the content container is king.

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The Danger of Trading Essence for Experience

Today we live in danger of surviving only in essences and not experiences.

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Proof of Life: Dying to Blog

You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.

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Welcome to RelationShaping ->(

Welcome to David W. Boles RelationShaping!  The intent of this blog is to examine, “The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->(” and we thank you for joining us!

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Where We Are Going: 2008 Predictions

Hooray for 2008 and I hope your year is joyous and not yet bloody

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