This is a slide from Russell Davies’ dConstruct talk:
He writes, of this slide:
But this is probably the most interesting aspect - we’re finally moving past the twin elephants in the room of technological conversation. Infatuation with everything shiny and digital, and that nostalgic, ‘Lead Pencil Club’ clinging to the past. We’re finally getting to the point where we can decide which are the appropriate technologies to use based simply on their actual merits. And, we’re starting to understand how to combine the analogue and digital in effective ways.
My favourite example is this: Things I Word Rather Read On Paper. Is it combines what the web does well; publishing, gathering, discovering and curating content (via instapaper) with what print does well; being readable, durable and portable.
Davies was the first person to expose me to the idea of print on demand, believe it or not. Since then, I’ve printed three different “anthologies” of web content that I’d bookmarked, but like his example, would rather have read on paper.
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