Blog de Puree

Imagine that you subscribe to The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Boston Globe and one of those papers is delivered to your front door every morning. I congratulate you because you are seemingly and intelligent and informed person who stays up on the current, well-reported and important news. Or, are you?

Now imagine that you work in an industry that requires you to know about very specific and niche-like information from a number of different sectors, or that you’re just a well-rounded person with many different interests. Sure, you’ll get a basic overview of what may be happening in different sectors from any one of the aforementioned newspapers, but will you be getting the specific and timely information you need that covers more specific and first-person details from the front lines of those fields? Not likely.

In our house we used to get a daily paper. Not any more. Because of the rising costs of subscribing to a print newspaper subscription, as well as the lack of variety sources that we crave, we now subscribe to many RSS feeds published by our favorite websites, online newspapers, blogs, you name it. And we have our choice of any one we want, so that we can customize the the information that we read on any given day.

No more morning papers. It’s morning laptops with our coffee. We just have to be careful not to spill our drinks–newspapers and magazines don’t cost upwards of $700.