Last week, as the technorati returned home from their working spring breaks in Austin for SXSW Interactive, the backlash began almost immediately. It started with Jolie O’Dell’s post, smartly entitled “Why SXSW Sucks.” It quickly followed with the predictable back and forth, and many reporters and attendees said that this year’s SXSWi was too big, too crowded, and too overtly sponsored.

The Great Tabulation is coming, and here is how it can actually save publishing. (Really).

Despite whatever analogies the typically curmudgeonly Jack Shafer might make, even if the tablet only lives up to only a portion of its promise, it will be a game changing device.