Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Future of Print Could be… Digital Presses

February 22, 2009 – 6:27 pm

TweetBefore we “stop the presses”, and acknowledge the extinction of newspapers, as many pundits suggests, let’s take another look at the future of printing. In my view, within four years, newspaper production will become radically different from today’s process. We’ll enter an era of small print runs, highly decentralized printing units and above all, customized [...]

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Convergence

February 22, 2009 – 6:26 pm

TweetOld word, at least in the Valley. The meaning has shifted over time; we no longer say digital convergence: everything is digital now, precisely the reason why the convergence concept arose in the first place.  Everything being reduced to zeroes and ones, to bits, all sorts of information, media, content (all much abused words) would [...]

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Upgrades on the Monday Note

February 15, 2009 – 3:41 pm

Tweet- The blog is now open for comments. – Posts can be shared with social networks (Facebook, LindkedIn, Digg, etc.) – We have added a Blogroll of some of our prefered site. – Pages are in a printable-friendly format. – The newsletter and the site are now compatible with all mobile devices. – New design [...]

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Recommendation Engines: A Must for News Sites

February 15, 2009 – 3:41 pm

TweetA piece of advice for news sites operators: invest money in a real recommendation engine, tag-based, social, or even semantic filtering. Readers will stay longer on your site, increasing the value of their visits. On average, major news sites don’t get more than 3 to 4 pages per visit. Sadly, those who manage to go [...]

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Pen and Paper

February 15, 2009 – 3:41 pm

TweetWe haven’t had a gadget story in a while, this is one and perhaps more than that. Not about Kindle 2, I haven’t tried it yet, but still somewhat related as we’re jumping again into the paper and screen topic.  Ebooks deal with one kind of electronic ink, the one used to display text.  Another [...]

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And now, let’s try micropayments

February 8, 2009 – 8:32 pm

TweetFree, then paid-for, then free again, then partially paid, then free and now possibly micro-paid. That’s the New York Times pattern for its website since 1995. Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, floated the idea in an email Q&A sessions with readers: “The idea is that readers may not pay a subscription [...]

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eBooks and Smartphones

February 8, 2009 – 8:24 pm

TweetUpdate: see a presentation of the Kindle2 here. Another look at an old, but not aging, topic: eBooks. There is visible agitation ahead of Amazon’s expected announcement, probably as you read this note Monday February 9th.  Jeff Bezos is set to announce a new version of the Kindle eBook reader, let’s call it Kindle 2.0. [...]

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Reading from a smartphone, the smart way

February 1, 2009 – 7:40 pm

TweetI’m quite fond of Bloomberg’s iPhone application. My insomnia companion is my iPod touch, used as an alarm clock, and as a convenient bedtime newsreader. And the Bloomberg app is my favorite: good navigation, a simple bottom toolbar (News, Markets, MyStocks, StockFinder). In the News section, stories are shown as they are published and each [...]

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What Would Google Do?

February 1, 2009 – 7:39 pm

TweetThis is the title of a new book by Jeff Jarvis, (his blog here) one that triggered a really good (I’m not always in love with the magazine’s writings) Business Week story.  Focusing on Detroit, the book and the story propose a revolution in automotive design: openness.  Don’t design everything yourself, open your engineering processes, [...]

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