Category Archives: dead media

Fax machines, and PDFs, kicking off the deadmedia watch for 2010

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Thomas Purves

The fax machine was obsolete 15 years ago. When someone says “fax it to me,” I always feel like I’m being punk’d. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog mode that work together … Continue reading →

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Dead Media Watch #297 – Hyphens

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Thomas Purves

About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. No one has time for the poor hyphen anymore. It seems to be going the … Continue reading →

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In reality, SXSW Interactive 2009 was a long drunken wake for the death of print

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Thomas Purves

[Last of my notes from SXSW, these on the recurring theme of death of many media, but one we may particularly miss, the death of books and long form fiction] The econoclipse has totally hastened the demise by digital soil … Continue reading →

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