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[QUOTE="Andy Dingley, post: 3798231"]
Of course it does, if you look at the "usage" question rather than the
"media". Facebook and Wordpress are the punk 'zines of 30 years ago.

I don't think they have for 20 years. I had even more typographic
control (albeit monochrome) of my content then than I do with the web
today. The main differences today are that:

* I used to publish to a hundred or so, people whom I already knew
and had addresses for. Now I'm in broadcast media rather than
mailshots. I can leave my content up for people to find, I can send it
to people "on spec" with a very lightweight knowledge of who they are,
and I can stay in contact with transient people far mor easily, even
when they shift addresses.

* I _need_ high quality colour images if anyone's to read it - it's
difficult to get the facebook generation to read text-only.

* Cheap scalability means I can hit tens of thousands for the old
price of a hundred.

It does sadden me in some ways. Even the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists has just stopped their old paper bulletin and gone totally
on-line after 60 years of the Doomsday Clock.
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