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Once upon a time, an informative and elaborately-folded "newspaper," arrived on every American's doorstep just before sunrise. It was filled with articles and advertisements, and was to be perused with one's morning coffee. Then a famed climate scientist named Al Gore invented the internet, and the lonely perverts who once took out ads in papers' Personals Sections left for Craigslist, rendering the industry's profit-model completely broken. And so concludes an exhaustive history of print journalism.

These days, some people think web advertising is the future. But who can be so sure about these things? Always prudent to hedge your bets, no? That must be the strategy behind these six advertisements for new media things in old media locations -- on billboards or in newspapers. This can't be too profitable for anyone, but something about it is just highly entertaining.

  • Wisconsin town buys billboard to advertise its Facebook page (via Adrants)


  • Man donates to charity, gets street in Palestinian refugee camp named after his Twitter account (via Wired)


  • European event promoting company re-printed their Tweets in the newspaper... under picture of Michael Jackson. (via nick burcher)


  • Google advertises in Indian newspaper (via Proven SEO)


  • And the following billboard is how Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to 1 million Twitter followers. (via Tribble)


  • The 6 o'clock evening news may be a relic, but Katie Couric has a hip new web show. It's called @katiecouric, 'cuz she's on the Twitter.


Seen any others? Drop a link in the comments below.