TypePad has introduced a "bailout" program for journalists who have been laid off or expect to be.
Shifting to an online-only setup is often a last resort for newspapers and other print publications; it's seen as an admission of defeat. IDG, however, has found the online environment to be a welcoming and lucrative place.
The market can only take so much and there will always be specific niches to fill. That being said, let's also remember that geeks have been declaring the death of print since at least 1984.
The attention span of Internet users has been the subject of many studies, most coming to the conclusion that, on average, people only spend a few seconds on any given site. An eye tracking study from Poynter Online, however, reveals that users who go online searching for news actually spend longer amounts of time in consuming content than their offline counterparts.
A couple of print publications struggle within their field and suddenly the blogosphere is singing the dirge for newspapers. But I think it's too soon to for the tree population to start celebrating the death of an institution.
Upon news that 30-year-old magazine InfoWorld was shutting down its print operations and moving online, and that the San Francisco Chronicle is also in trouble, a debate is raging in the blogosphere. The general consensus near Silicon Valley: print is dead.
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