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Was I wrong about the Hi Tech Yes, I was.

High Tech, Low Think
I suspect the problem is that political editors are former political reporters who don't really trust their reporters to be as good as they imagine they used to be, so they match their reporters' work against everybody else's to judge how well their folks are 'covering' the story.
· Digitization of the political press corps [ See Also Acting Locally]
· Why should society reward the kind of work that I do with status and certain privileges?
· The Third Wave of Online Journalism
Underlying these three phases are the two driving laws of infomatics: Moore's Law, the doubling of transistors on an integrated circuit roughly every couple of years; and Metcalf's Law, the power or value of a network increasing in proportion to the square of the number of nodes on the network.
From the earliest days, librarians have been tasked with storing, indexing and making available information to users and readers. In this context librarians are not simply mechanics, for they are responsible for ensuring the quality of the information that is ultimately retrieved. [ courtesy of Librarians ]