Everyone brace themselves for another batch of articles bemoaning, or celebrating, the death of print. Storied tech magazine folds: check. (Infoworld magazine confirms it's stopping publication.) Newspaper editor states the obvious: check. (San Francisco Chronicle's editor says the news business is broken.) All the trend-spotters need now is a hubristic claim from a 22-year-old internet entrepreneur. Enter Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, who envisages each user of the college social network producing everything from party reports to commentary on the news of the day.

In the next iterations, you're going to see real stories being produced... Twenty to 30 snippets of information or stories a day, that's like 300 million stories a day. It gets to a point where we are publishing more in a day than most other publications have in the history of their whole existence. [Mark Zuckerberg, interviewed by Andy Kessler.

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