A few months ago there was a burst of enthusiasm for Twitter book clubs. We participated in some of the excitement around the Wossy bookclub. Like a lot of good ideas, this one seems to have fizzled. There have been other Twitter bookclubs, but like the Jonathan Ross experiment, it seems that they quickly need to invoke the aid of a more substantial platform (wossy went to a news forum), Facebook or an email list. Perhaps Twitter … Keep Reading
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Earlier this week Exact Editions release through the Apple iTunes App store a branded magazine App for the UK’s leading sporting periodical Athletics Weekly. If you have an iPhone and work in the magazine business you really need to treat yourself to a short subscription to this publication. Direct link.
To speak frankly, this is a breakthrough for the magazine industry and it has not yet been properly noticed. One key point: on the iPhone, a magazine is … Keep Reading
Lawrence Lessig contributed a 40 min discussion to the Berkman Center’s seminar “Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement”. (In the ‘shadow’ of the Google Settlement — doesnt this make it sound a bit ominous?)
He opens with a comparison between Tiger/Kitten and Tiger/Tiger. Google has to be the Tiger. So although not explicitly anti-Google, his rather mournful assessment of the Google project is moving away from it. Watch out … Keep Reading
Wisden on the Ashes, (the authoritative story of cricket’s greatest rivalry) published by Bloomsbury, is now available through the Exact Editions platform for an annual subscription of £10. With 500+ pages of detailed reportage and statistics this will be on the shopping list of every geeky cricketer, or cricket enthusiast.
I was never much of a cricketer, but I have always been a geeky cricket buff. So what do you think of this scoreboard?
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I have been taking another look at PageFlow in the Exactly App on the iPhone. Here are a few screenshots taken while using the App to skim through the current issue of Dazed & Confused:
Starting at the frontcover
By stroking the pages you pull them across the screen
Picking up the bead on the slider is a way of zipping through the magazine
The slider bar indicates how far through you are (here 98/132pp)Exploring this PageFlow is … Keep Reading