An old fun correction and an incorrect fun prediction

A co-worker was telling me about one of the all-time best corrections in the Globe: the obituary that spoke of the distinguished teachers tacky pants, instead of khaki pants. A quick search finds the correction, another the obit. Ooops.

On a totally unrelated note, Scott Adams has some interesting thoughts on the future of newspapers. He hopes for "a newspaper that is a hybrid of social voting, such as you see on web sites like www.reddit.com and www.digg.com, but further filtered by human editors who weed out the redundant, the juvenile, and the stuff unsubstantiated by facts." What he doesn't see is newspapers getting into the more general ad-supported search and information business. I think it's a natural - after all, Dilbert certainly isn't news, but the comics are certainly a major reason some people buy the newspaper. And the coupons. And the weather.