Brian Russell, who is building a coworking space in Carrboro, just alerted me to an excellent new article about this in the San Francisco Chronicle: Shared work spaces a wave of the future. Well worth a read.
More like this
The future of newspapers is bleak, but there are three saving strategies: 1) hyperlocal papers will beat the big city, state, national and international papers, 2) telling the truth instead of false equivalence will foster reader loyalty, and 3) the print-to-web mode of thinking will be replaced
Science Communicators of North Carolina:
Connect with SCONC in a cool Co-Working Environment!
Monday, November 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Carrboro Creative Coworking, a brilliant local project spearheaded by Brian Russell, is now a reality.
There used to be two big independent papers in the Triangle: Spectator and Independent.
The former was full of information about local events, movies, restaurants. The latter had some of the best political and social writing anywhere.
And this, from today's New York Times (probably got the idea from the SF Chronicle ...)
Inspiration Strikes Only a Desk Away
By DAN FOST
Published: February 20, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/business/businessspecial2/20ideas.html
Yes, I saw it - the two articles are amazingly similar.