The Wall Street Journal says Apple spent a lot of time considering how a tablet device might be used communally in homes and classrooms: being handed around, or used by a group as a portable TV/video device. One person familiar with the matter said Apple has put significant resources into designing and programming the device [...]
In heralding CMS Watch’s recategorisation of their research streams, Alan Pelz-Sharpe argues that businesses want process-specific solutions, not “a single system to manage all their enterprise content, no matter how wonderful or magical such a system may sound”. (From CMS Watch)
… although it’s not immediately clear if the drop in ad revenue is as much a factor as increase in paid subscriptions etc. (From Paid Content)
Ooh, look, Google Maps are serving up embed code now: View Larger Map That’s the Bridge Bar in Nong Khai. Admittedly the Yahoo Maps sat pic (same source as Google’s) is higher definition at present: http://tinyurl.com/2krfqw
“Killing print requires acknowledging not just that the old mode is dead but also that the future means less revenue and shrunken staffs.” Thanks to Simon Waldman for the link.
First time I’ve seen this as a way of teasing you over the subscription wall. Not unsusceptible to a quick screengrab, though…
Associated goes with Atex using InDesign, InCopy … and, “initially”, Notes.(From Editor & Publisher)
Why read other newspapers? For me, it’s comment and analysis firstly (and a long way ahead), then perhaps the odd interview, feature, and review. I’ll only look for news on another newspaper if it deals with a part of the world not really covered by my principal news sources. So what would get me, or [...]
(From Editors Weblog)
… accounting for 8.3% of total revenues in 2006, up from 6% in 2005.(From MediaPost_
(From SearchEngineWatch)
rank source score average score total stories 1 Guardian Unlimited 533.95 3.46 154 2 BBC News 314.21 2.66 118 3 Times Online 312.15 4.00 78 4 Reuters.uk 301.02 2.81 107 5 Telegraph.co.uk 284.44 3.23 88 6 Independent 236.84 4.38 54 7 Monsters & Critics 167.68 2.62 64 8 Scotsman 164.02 2.78 59 9 ITV.com 135.20 [...]
In the space of a couple of hours I read this open letter from the editor of the LA Times about these crazy times for the newspaper industry, and came across a letter I wrote in 1999 to Alan in response to the Guardian advertising the post of “internet editor” (a post I thought should [...]
This has been offline for six months, and the old comments and linked files have gone. Apols. I’m going to be putting up some link-only entries here for a bit. I know, it’s a sin – but it’s mainly for my own use. I never really got into del.icio.us.