My twitterfeed, which is mostly comprised of writers, bloggers, and political pundits, is going crazy about the news that Newsweek will cease to produce a print magazine and is instead going all digital. Here's a sample of the links:

Russ Douthat at the New York Times

The Newsweek memo to staff

John Podhoretz at Commentary

Tina Brown at The Daily Beast

David Carr, the New York Times

Newsweek is following the path of other news magazines. They are putting all the chips on online, opinion writing. Doubling down. This is where the traffic is. They're moving their offices from DC to NYC. They're hiring tons of IT experts to create new websites and 20-something editors to mass produce content — cheaply compensated content that isn't sufficiently fact checked. 

I'm benefiting from these changes, so I would be a real ass to complain about this transition, but the speed at which information is being produced scares me a bit. A lot. The writers have no safety net. This is the atmosphere that creates a Jonah Lehrer.