Over at Wired Journalist’s someone asked what to put online first and what to hold for print. He mentioned that staffers were worried about the competition getting ahold of their scoops. Here is my response:

Online everyone is a competitor and no one is a competitor. As in, what you view as your competition has radically shifted. A kid on your block can now be your competition. In the same token, however, that kid can collaborate with you.

The Web is about being social and forming webs of connections. In that sense, just as anyone can be your competitor, anyone can also help you. If you embrace that collaborative spirit, you’ll find that the Web offers many more opportunities for collaboration than it does for competition.

The only thing I’d hold for print are longer, more enterprise stories. Longer-form content doesn’t do that well online anyway. Otherwise, I’d let everything go first online. It is the new first draft of history.