Either way it looks like the news organisations that tear down the wall and build a bridge between editorial and technological thinking will be most likely to survive.
►In this week's Science editorial, "Bridging the opinion gap," AAAS CEO Allen Leshner addressed "a wide opinion gap between scientists and the general public in the United States when it comes to their attitudes about the state of science and science-related policy," detected by a Pew Research Center poll.
Bridging the gap between editorial and social serendipity, the notion of crowdsourced relevance really only delivers a broad, lowest-common-denominator level of content discovery.
Here's hoping that Newsweek, once one of my favorite magazines if only for the jolly front page full of quips and editorial cartoons, can bridge that chasm.
With new tools to aid editorial discovery, The Bridge will lead to more original reporting, broader story coverage and better use of social media to reach our audience on all platforms.
The Future chief executive, Stevie Spring, added: "Mark's outstanding track record in the media bridges both the commercial and editorial and he has a wealth of experience in broadcast, print and online".
As much as we are able to appreciate the significance of this accomplishment with a century of hindsight, we cannot help but wonder if the importance of Bridges's paper was equally obvious to the first editorial board of GENETICS, of which Bridges's thesis advisor Thomas Hunt Morgan was a member.
I applaud your hope that President Bush "look to his place in history" by bridging our country's political divide (editorial, Nov. 4).
Similar to Gilt Taste, the flash sales giant is also trying to bridge the gap between e-commerce and editorial with the launch of Home.
In London, a churn of investigations and editorials have suggested that the bridge is likely a very bad deal for the public.
