About four years ago, I stopped reading printed newspapers, and switched to news--and the NY Times--online.

Two years ago, I swapped out reading blogs for much of the literary fiction I used to adore.

In the past year, I notice that I've lost interest in the weekly magazines-- Time and Entertainment Weekly that are coming to the house as part of a left-over airline miles offer.
They come in and I look at them as more annoying paper to deal with--nothing relevant.

What interests me about this behavior is that I am still a huge fan of monthly magazines--the womens/shelter/travel magazines that I get-- Country Living, Oprah, Domino, Lucky, Sunset, Food & Wine, Blueprint--are tremendous fun and I enjoy browsing through them and savoring the photos, travel ideas, and things I like but will never buy.

So where's the paradigm shift? Information versus entertainment.

I've pretty much stopped looking to print as a topical information resource; for news and quick data hits, I go online to read and research, so the record reviews, movie listings and interviews in EW and the news stories in Time have a much lesser value.

The shelter mags I read, however, are pure entertainment--the West Coast travel stories in Sunset and the painted, do-it yourself rooms with quilts in Blueprint are photo-based fun, with a substance on paper that pixels don't equal.

Of course, the reality is that reading blogs trumps just about everything for me--whether it's news, fashion, tech or gossip, blogs are the favored channel, along with videos, social media network notes, and photos and event listings.