Q-What do you call the obituary pages of the newspaper?

A- subscriber countdown

That was a joke tweeted live during the Online News Association convention this past weekend in San Francisco. Great time.

One small note- I saw this guy David LaFontaine talk at ONA, he has a nice recurring summary of news about the state of the industry on his blog like this.

I may actually download this mp3 of Clay Shirky in a talk on accountability journalism in the age of newspaper's steady decline