The iPad killed my dinosaur

[sidd finch]

[Dave McElderry]

Well done, but I have no idea what it means.

[sidd finch]

Well done, but I have no idea what it means

My take is that it is an allegory that uses the extinction of dinosaurs to represent the extinction of printed news paper do to the proliferation of tablet style devices.

Sidd

[Dave McElderry]

My take is that it is an allegory that uses the extinction of dinosaurs to represent the extinction of printed news paper do to the proliferation of tablet style devices.

Okay, I can buy that. Kind of like having to explain a joke, huh Sidd? Takes most of the fun out of it. Thanks.

[Bob]

Yes, it's about the death of print, but not just from the proliferation of tablet devices and electronic media. Another factor is the proliferation of restrictive copyright legislation.

See this page from the author of the movie about the idea behind it. The page is in German, but the quote in the middle is in English. You can translate the page using the Google language tools or use the auto translate of the Chrome browser.

[TreeTopsRanch]

But, you gotta admit he/she did a pretty good job on that animation.

[momoffduty]

Wonderful animation and very sad. Here is a well done documentary on the death of the Rocky Mtn. News. It is a little long at 21 minutes, but worth the watch. When we lived in Denver this the newspaper we subscribed.