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How to make Reader editions better
No doubt the best coding brains at the New York Times Co. are focused on iPad development these days. But as a paid subscriber to the Reader editions of the New York Times and the Boston Globe, I have...
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Tuesday tech talk from a non-techie
Welcome to the tech blog whose author almost knows what he’s talking about. I know just enough to be dangerous, folks. Here are three tidbits for your Tuesday morning. 1. Beyond Google Reader. Last...
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Reflecting on the latest circulation figures
In Japan, advertising accounts for just 35 percent of newspaper revenue. In Britain, it’s 50 percent. And in the United States, ads have traditionally amounted to a whopping 87 percent of newspaper...
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Amazon’s move is a boon for digital newspapers
The future of digital newspapers just got a lot more interesting. The New York Times reports that Amazon has decided to let newspaper and magazine publishers have a 70 percent cut of Kindle revenues, a...
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An alternative metaphor for reading the news
Times Skimmer. Click on image to see for yourself. I don’t remember when Times Skimmer was first unveiled by the New York Times, but I do remember being unimpressed. Recently, though, I took another...
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Happy birthday, Marshall McLuhan
Today is the 100th birthday of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian scholar who forever changed the way we think about media and their effects on the human psyche. Last week I sat down for a conversation...
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The New Yorker’s underwhelming iPad app
Given the New York Times’ rather rhapsodic take on the New Yorker’s iPad app, I was surprised by how underwhelming it turned out to be when I finally gave it a test. I installed it on Mrs. Media...
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Subscriber-based BostonGlobe.com debuts
Readers turning to Boston.com this morning and clicking on “Today’s Globe” found something new — an invitation to register for the new BostonGlobe.com, a paid site that will be getting a free trial...
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This morning’s BostonGlobe.com report
The next few weeks should be interesting as the folks at the Boston Globe work out the bugs at BostonGlobe.com. Starting last night, the site stopped working on my almost-four-year-old MacBook using...
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Kindle edition of “The Wired City” now available
I got some great news on Thursday: The Kindle edition of “The Wired City” is now available at Amazon.com. I do virtually all my book-reading on my iPad using Kindle software, even if I have a hard copy...
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Why newspaper apps still matter
The Washington Post’s new iOS app. Remember when the iPad was going to save the news business? How did that work out? But if the redemptive qualities of tablets turned out to be overblown, they are...
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No bang, just fizzle: Why Apple’s iPad flopped as a news platform
Photo (cc) 2011 by Global X. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. Of all the good technological innovations that were supposedly going to rescue the news business from the bad technological...
View ArticleWant a free iPad? Buy a newspaper! In Arkansas, an audacious experiment.
Previously published at WGBHNews.org. There is nothing good about the ongoing economic collapse of local newspapers. But if you squint hard, you can see a few hopeful signs amid the gloom. Recently I...
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Neither revolutionary nor retrograde
Click on image for larger view The case for Apple’s iPad seems clear enough. Some 700,000 were sold on Saturday, which was double what had been predicted. The case against the iPad is based on two...
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Time enters the reality-distortion zone
Back in February, we paid $20 for an 18-month subscription to the print edition of Time magazine. All right, it was a “professional” rate, available to us because I’m a journalism professor. But no one...
View ArticleThe closing of the Internet*
Imagine you are trying to start a news site in your community. Your competitor, part of a national chain, offers instant-on, full-screen HD video and a host of other data-intensive features that load...
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The resurrection will be (slightly) delayed
The idea that Apple’s iPad would save newspapers and magazines, always dubious, is so far not even getting a decent tryout. Evangelists for the iPad put forth a vision of users switching from free...
View ArticleMy iPad lust runneth over
In my latest for the Guardian, I finally admit that I get a thrill up my leg every time I visit the Apple store and hold an iPad.
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How to make Reader editions better
No doubt the best coding brains at the New York Times Co. are focused on iPad development these days. But as a paid subscriber to the Reader editions of the New York Times and the Boston Globe, I have...
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Tuesday tech talk from a non-techie
Welcome to the tech blog whose author almost knows what he’s talking about. I know just enough to be dangerous, folks. Here are three tidbits for your Tuesday morning. 1. Beyond Google Reader. Last...
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