Happy Birthday to Grandpa Howard, Web 2.0 Style
Posted by Allison Fine on June 6, 2007
When you least expect it the Connected Age can jump up and bite you somewhere uncomfortable. My friend Cathy’s Grandpa Howard turned 100 last week in Newark, OH (about an hour northwest of Columbus for anyone interested.) Before, in the broadcast era, the best one could have done to nationally celebrate Grandpa Howard’s milestone would be for Willard Scott to read his name while we watched his face pasted inside of a Smucker’s jar.
But, look here at what the Newark Advocate posted right after the event. As everyone who has heard me rant about it, I have been appalled by the hand wringing and whining by newspapers about their long, death spiral. Here is a local newspaper that has reinvented itself online, is doing a great job with video (and we don’t even have to take notice of how seamless and inexpensive it’s become) to secure it’s spot as a local resource. Add a few bloggers to it — and, what’s this, a newspaper has become a local community itself – take that big media!
BTW, Happy Birthday, Grandpa Howard!
