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Disruption: how one webcomic welcomes the future that so many fear
- tptacek 16y agoThe Las Vegas Review-Journal employs many hundreds of people. Randall Munroe draws stick figure comics. Something tells me that his business model doesn't intrinsically, naturally, automatically scale to the size of the largest newspaper in Nevada. There's plenty to be said about the brokenness of the newspaper model --- I recommend Bill Wyman's "Newspaper Death Watch" posts, and his musings about the nature of online replacements --- but comparing a whole content enterprise to xkcd doesn't strike me as particularly useful.