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A new angle on Web 2.0

Tim O’Reilly presents a fertile thought experiment. But it is not just our commercial and financial activities which can be enhanced by web-scaled interaction. How would it help our reading on the web, if the process of reading, to think and to write, was enhanced with intelligent feedback: to the reader, the publisher, the author or journalist?

When, soon, most of our reading (magazines, newspapers, books, blogs, by definition, etc…) is web-based, how will the different reading applications co-ooperate … Keep Reading

DIVE magazine

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Magazine Week Web Site

The Magazine Week web site is up, but it is clearly still in stealth mode, so it would not be fair to make any definite judgement. As yet no sign of a break-the-mould proposition….. such as World Book Day’s free book token for every schoolchild.

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The Economist and The Independent

Juan Antonio Giner’s Innovations in Newspapers blog has lots of good pictures of the Sarcozy result. Some of the best come from my daily read, La Repubblica.

Juan also has a gripe about the lack of coverage on their web sites from The Independent and The Economist. He is of course right (though by today, in both cases, the web sites have caught up – he was blogging on Sunday when many newspapers leave their web sites quiet). … Keep Reading

Are Cartoons Endangered?

Daryl Cagle, a cartoonist, posts insightfully on the challenges that traditional newsprint faces from the move towards web-generated advertising. We sympathise with Daryl Cagle in his instinctive reaction that ‘learning how to blog’, or ‘moving to animated cartoons’ in order to meet the challenge of the web, does not seem like the right strategy. Perhaps Murdoch’s pow wow in California this week will come up with the answers — to the challenge that newsprint faces.

Notice that some things … Keep Reading

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