Beyond the invention of what everybody would do

The Seattle Post Intelligencer announces its last print edition (photo: Dan DeLong, via AP)

In the midst of an economic crisis creativity and innovation are challenged. At the annual media and culture festival SXSW in Texas, the behemoths of technology and innovation are rising to the occasion.

People like Clay Shirky, author of 2008 best-seller ‘Here Comes Everybody’, Steven Johnson, author of most-likely-will-be 2009 best-seller ‘The Invention of Air’, Jeff Jarvis, author of the already well-selling ‘What Would Google Do’, and all-round smart man and quantum human Bruce Sterling. 

They have written and talked extensively about the future of newspapers on their blogs, via Twitter and on stage at SXSW. Read Shirky’s impressive post ‘Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable‘ and Johnson’s ‘Old Growth Media and the Future of News‘ to get started.

You can also follow this future-of-media-continuum via Twitter: @cshirky, @stevenbjohnson, @jeffjarvis and @bruces. Or as a last resort use @juhavantzelfde as your filter; I will continue following this.