Monthly Archives: April 2010

Reconciling efficiency with serendipity

April 26, 2010 – 8:31 am

TweetFor digital media publishers, Design is the biggest challenge. Business model is king, of course, but it needs strong design to reign. The same goes for content. Without clever navigation, after a quick stunt on the home page, a good story might die buried deep inside the bowels of a site before realizing its full [...]

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iPad: Which way do you lean?

April 26, 2010 – 8:31 am

TweetThe iPad is a strange animal—we don’t know where it fits, yet. Is it a laptop replacement? Is it an entertainment device? Can I do “real work” on it or is it merely a brobdingagian iPod Touch, a more colorful Kindle with better email and Web browsing? Spiritual traditions associate the angle of the spine [...]

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Data Schizophrenia

April 18, 2010 – 7:28 pm

TweetLet’s discuss a developing data management contradiction. People thinking in strategic terms about the monetization of digital medias, publishers, marketers, are unanimous. Collecting and poring over data has become more important than ever. That’s one trend. The other involves the gatekeepers. As I briefly explained last week, we now face a small club of high [...]

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iPad Second Impressions

April 18, 2010 – 7:28 pm

TweetI’m “stuck” in Paris (poor me), volcanic ash from Iceland has closed the airports. Stranded but not ignored. I have my iPad. In business meetings, in cafés and restaurants, the iPad is, as I reported two weeks ago, an all-around guy- and-chick magnet. Sit down, stroke the screen, and Parisians, not normally the easygoing sort, [...]

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Aligning The Digital Planets

April 11, 2010 – 6:47 pm

TweetLet’s pause and look at trends that have emerged over the last few years: How will they affect the digital newsmedia industry? First, we’ll try and list a few undisputed facts. Then we’ll drift towards conclusions bordering the uncharted territory of predictions. It’s worth the risk. The web fuel problem. The internet economic engine isn’t [...]

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The Adobe – Apple Flame War

April 11, 2010 – 6:45 pm

TweetThe short version: Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, by being cross-platform, they don’t use, they erase “uncommon” features. To Apple, this is anathema as [...]

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Catching The iPad Wave: Seven Thoughts

April 5, 2010 – 8:32 am

Tweet1. Design The iPad is all about design, and interface expectations. From a graphic design standpoint, with the iPad, the quantum leap is its ability to render layouts, typefaces, page structure. No more web HTML lowest common denominator, here. What comes out from an art director gets WYSIWYGed on the iPad — if the implementation [...]

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Wanna see my Japanese etchings — on my iPad?

April 5, 2010 – 8:31 am

TweetThe frenzy surrounding Apple’s new product, the iPad, could give a new life to the old pickup line. I just got mine, that thing is an equal opportunity guy and chick magnet. Better than the proverbial (and fake) Ferrari car keys negligently dropped on the counter in a bar. Here, with the iPad, you can [...]

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