Newspapers for adolescents? Manga them!

They call Japan a newspaper-crazy country. The Yomiuri Shimbun has a circulation that's 10 times the circulation of The New York Times (not that this is saying much: the NYT circulation has nosedived these last months). But just as everywhere else the younger generations are not reading newspapers as much as their parents, here's an interesting alternative: the Manga No Shimbun.

Now how cool is that: a website employing more than a 100 Manga-artists who cover the week's news and breaking stories, updating up to 15 times a day. Available for iPhone and Android. With thanx to Wired.

Crichton, the media guru

Refresshing read, this article by bestselling author Michael Crichton on the future of the American media ... especially the part about the media being part of society's problems or the big ego's of self-indulged media personalities ... which reminds me somewhat of the attitude problems even our tv journalists seem to develop.

The amazing thing however is that this 'Mediasaurus' essay was written in an issue of Wired in the fall of ... 1993.

Entertaining read from a visionary proclaiming the death of traditional media long before we even had a widescale Internet.