At the end of 2005, I posted on CNBC adding full company names to its broadcast ticker -- a move that took largely useless information and made it useful to the general public.

In that post, I also talked about another anachronism -- newspaper stock tables. 

When was the last time you looked up a stock quote in a newspaper?

I’d be surprised if 1 in 100 can remember.  However, newspapers continue to print these tables at a tremendous cost — newsprint accounts for a very large percentage of total expense to newspaper companies.  Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that newspapers are struggling so badly.