Apparently my letter below was published in the December 2008 / January 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine on page 30.  My comments are in response to this article by Robert Scoble.  Adrian Holovaty’s name is published incorrectly (as Holloway), so I just wanted to correct it here.

Mr. Scoble,

I’m really disappointed with the example you gave of “newspaper innovation”.  The Star-Ledger’s newscast is more of the same middle of the road junk application we need less of.  This is about as industry saving as putting a newspaper widget on a MySpace page.

I wish you had used this opportunity to show what kind of innovations are being created and used by Rob Curley, Adrian Holovaty, anything from the Knight Foundation and the Medill School.

I wish you had written about boston.com‘s The Big Picture blog and how it is so fresh and exciting.  You blew it.

-Robert Ivan

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