I love the newspaper, the hold in your hand, still-made-of-actual-paper, newspaper. I like reading the news stories the next day. I like flipping through the classifieds, the comics and the business section. I enjoy the time I spend with the paper.

I get teased by my “web” friends because they tell me I am wasting my money on the paper when I can read it for free, as it happens, online. They all tell me that I am “waiting” for the news. That my twitter and facebook streams will tell me if something happens. And if I want more details, I can click the link and read the blogs. But when I am online, I am working. I am busy with millions of things. And I find it very difficult to actually relax in front of a computer screen. In addition, I have found that many times the news stories online are not complete, and the tweets or status updates are not based on the complete facts. With a newspaper, not only can I relax while I read, I also know that they have a more complete story as they have been able to gather more facts before printing it. In the web world, there is such a rush to be the fastest, be the first, that facts and figures are often overlooked. While the web gets is faster, the paper often gets it better.

What other mediums in business is faster not always better?