Category Archives: Publishing

I couldn’t have put it better myself

Mathew Ingram, writing for GigaOm: “Call it a deal with the devil or whatever you want, but Apple is the one that came up with devices that are so appealing, and a content-distribution model that is so effective, that it … Continue reading

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A thought on journalism for Boxing Day

Cover via Amazon I’ve spent part of the Christmas break reading Andrew Marr‘s book “My Trade“, which is a kind of personal history of journalism. If you like Marr’s history programmes, and have any interest in the history of media, … Continue reading

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Phil Gyford on why Murdoch’s iPad newspaper might not fail

Why the iPad newspaper might not be doomed: “Next, Tate says that News Corp. “sucks at the internet”. One thing I hear a lot is “the internet is different, you must get it to succeed, you old media folk don’t … Continue reading

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Paywall or not paywall? It’s not black and white

Roy Greenslade asks “where’s the proof of paywall success?“. “What we have yet to know is whether paywalls work. Even magazines that have erected them for a good while are either unsure about the results or, more usually, secretive about … Continue reading

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Marketing Week Live goes all iPhone AR crazy

I’m pretty skeptical about augmented reality applications in general, but there are some occasions when I think they’re actually quite useful. Events, for example, are a particular case where AR makes sense. The location is relatively small, but there’s usually … Continue reading

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And that’s why there will never be Flash on the iPhone

The Wall Street Journal story on Steve Jobs’ statement on Flash includes some telling quotes: Dave Wolf, vice president of strategy at Cynergy Systems Inc., a Washington, D.C., design firm, calls Apple’s no-Flash policy “a pain.” Mr. Wolf had planned … Continue reading

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Notes for a talk on designing for the iPad

Last week, I gave quick talk to some of the designers at Redwood about the challenges and opportunities that designing magazine-style content for the iPad presents. These are my notes. They’re rough, but they represent where my thinking is going.

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Has Gizmodo broken the law with its iPhone story?

I am not a lawyer. But I do play one on the weekends. More importantly, over the years I’ve become intimately familiar with the law as it affects journalists on both sides of the pond. I’ve covered cases like the … Continue reading

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This is what is killing newspapers

From the comments on The Times’ Q&A about it’s pay-model: “£2 a week is too rich for my blood even considering the quality reporting but this depends on what the annual rate will be.” If people genuinely believe that news … Continue reading

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Guess again

Another YouTube Revenue Guess: $1 Billion in 2011: Since Google releases almost no information about YouTube’s financial performance, the best we can do is make educated guesses. Here’s another one: The word’s biggest video site will be generating more than … Continue reading

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