Yesterday was a free day for me. But with a Blackberry you are never totally on holiday. Two work items piqued my interest.
Sad news for Tom Moloney, CEO of EMAP. He has left the company and the speculation is that it may be snapped up by a private equity company.
Another tiny item from feedback also snagged my interest (yes feedback gets forwarded to our Blackberries and, sad as it may be, I often look at it even … Keep Reading
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
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.
We were not able to get across to the PPA conference so we relied on reports blogged for the Guardian’s Organ Grinder by Stephen Brook and Jemima Kiss. I was struck by the quoted comment of Stevie Spring (CEO of Future Publishing):
Spring also pours scorn about predicts of the digital future. “Anyone who has a forecast beyond six months is fooling themselves because none of us have a clue.”
That seems broadly right! Though, at Exact Editions, … Keep Reading
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