Document 2.0 has many affordances, but also some negative impacts on “older” forms of documents – the survival of the fittest. One of most visible artifacts of that trend has been the “death of the newspaper” or how traditional media are threatened by social technologies, or what I call Document 2.0.

But can the world live without “traditional” documents e.g. newspapers (including online)? This is the subject of an interesting experiment in France. Five French Speaking journalists will be staying in isolated Perigord, only ingesting Web 2.0 feeds (and hopefully Monbazillac and Foie Gras ), trying to reconstruct “real” stories from this new type of journalism – realtime, incremental, but always trustworthy?

And of course, this experiment can be followed on twitter.