Media Convergence — or the idea that all the different media are moving towards a common and ultimately unitary media puddle — has its adherents and is probably coming back into fashion (it temporarily went out of fashion in about 2000 at the time the web investment bubble popped).
Whether these various media really are going to converge at one omega point on the near horizon (this omega point looks a bit like Gooooooooogle from this perspective), about this theory … Keep Reading
The FAQs are getting there. They should be up real soon now. Previous blog on this was wrong about one thing. Word and the discipline of putting the FAQs in a Word doc was more fruitful and more necessary than predicted. Before long we will write our FAQs through a wiki, but ‘pro tem’ the Word document format is a useful staging post.
The product reviews in this magazine are a compulsive read. Thorough, witty and to the point. Try this one on the Sinclair A-Bike. Which the reviewer finds “…oddly reminiscent of the C5 — a superb idea, quite well executed but impractical in the real world.” Ouch.
David Weinberger’s Joho the Blog often has interesting stuff about content, labelling, usability and web styles and fashions. Yesterday he blogged a devastating critique of Microsoft’s new music player from Andy Ihnatko in the Chicago Sun-Times. The bottom line (in Weinberger’s summary):
Zune sucks because it was designed to meet the music industry’s needs, not the users’.
Ihnatko’s review is convincing, but then I am not completely enamoured of the iPod either. But this comment about making the user … Keep Reading
The Guardian reports and the Press Gazette site confirms that the paper is to close. I suppose that it is possible that a bid will emerge, post mortem, but it must be much harder to revive a title once its journalists and staff have been let go. So this may be the end of a valuable magazine…..
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