Comments on An Online Newspaper Town

That's pathetic that they don't have generators. In the old days, NOTHING could stop a daily paper from coming out.

Generators? Have you ever seen a printing press? They're four stories tall.

I just want my bricks-n-mortar New York Times. I'm already going through withdrawal. Did others get their copies delivered this morning?

I believe the Seattle Times Company prints the NY Times at the same Bothell facility, so I think that won't be available either.

have you ever seen a BIG generator?

I agree with Fnarf. Datacenters probably use way more electricity than the printing presses, and they are able to keep going during outages by using massive generators (well, maybe not Fisher Plaza :P ).

Here's a peek at what The Seattle Times would have looked like today:

http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Default/welcome.asp?skin=SeattleTimesD&QS=Skin%3DSeattleTimesD%26Daily%3DSTCD

Both online newspapers and print newspapers are amazing magic tricks. It's nice to have the redundancy of the pulp and electronic formats to buttress the ever-tenuousness of mass communication.

Hey, kinda reminds me of the AVW and I-5! Howdeedo! Had a great viewpoint from Qwest Field last night, watching all the poor assholes that were using the AWV as a back-up plan for flooded parts of I-5.

Moral: Don't put all your eggs in one basket and stuff.

Here's how the P-I would have looked: http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/SeattlePID/Client.asp?Skin=SeattlePID&Daily=SPID&AW=1166243798867&AppName=1

One million citizens without power, hundreds of thousands still without power to this moment, and one of the two major dailies did not print a paper for the first time in 70 years.

Is it just me, or is this a stinging indictment of Seattle's woefully inadequate infrastructure?