{"id":2011,"date":"2005-12-13T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2005-12-13T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T10:38:30","slug":"newspapers_as_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers as Mainframes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.picsearch.com\/is?217404614694\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/12\/newspapers-as-mainframes\/\">Jeff Jarvis<\/a> and others have been discussing the analogy of newspapers as <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=mainframe\">mainframe computers<\/a>.  In essence, they are analagous: mainframes represented centralized processing, distribution and control.  PC&#8217;s came along and blew that up.  Mainframes still exist, but are being replaced by clusters of smaller, generally clustered linux computers.  The migration continues to ever smaller network devices.<\/p>\n<p>There is another analogy:  Newspapers as legacy media.  I recall discussing this last fall with <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/\">Jay Rosen<\/a> at Bloggercon.    The software business uses the term legacy to describe mothballed code, or something that is no longer updated.  Generally, this term is used when a customer is moving from software product\/platform a to product\/platform b  (DOS to Windows, Unix to Linux, terminals to client\/server to web services).<\/p>\n<p>There will always be journalism, some great, some not so great.   It will simply be delivered many different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jarvis and others have been discussing the analogy of newspapers as mainframe computers. In essence, they are analagous: mainframes represented centralized processing, distribution and control. PC&#8217;s came along and blew that up. Mainframes still exist, but are being replaced by clusters of smaller, generally clustered linux computers. The migration continues to ever smaller network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}