Greenslade has a gloomy but well-informed account of the financial prospects of the Press Gazette.
It will be a great shame if this informative and well-written magazine ceases publication. And if it does, it will be the first time that this has happened to one of ‘our’ magazines.
One of Greenslade’s comment-makers has this opinion:
… Keep ReadingFunnily enough your blog has helped kill it Roy – people in the media want online news about the media and they
Many of the digital magazine systems that use a ‘file download’ approach allow the user to ‘turn the page’ herself, eg by pointing and clicking to the bottom right hand corner of a virtual page. The page then moves across the screen before your amazed eyes to lay out a new two page spread (or a full single page if that’s your preference). Click on this link to find a page-turning example.
At an early stage our programmers produced … Keep Reading
Battelle spreads the news: Yahoo unveil an alliance with US newspapers clearly aimed at jostling Google’s attempts to corale the local classified ads market. Google’s attempts to syndicate newspaper ads is not a promising runner (earlier comments on the magazine episode apply). Yahoo looks a bit different.
Its not easy to be sure what the Yahoo deal amounts to (and coalitions of publishers often come unstuck), but the thing that sounds promising about this is that it seems a … Keep Reading
This is another of the themes that one encounters in explanations of Web 2.0. The idea (roughly) is that Web 1.0 was a read-only web and the new era is a read/write era.
Dont know about that, but there are questions that one could ask about magazines in such an environment. Would publishers want to encourage this kind of user response? Will digital magazines, to the extent that they can be shared, become vandalised beyond saving? Will users really … Keep Reading
The London Review of Books is famous for its small ads, its personals. They are witty, elusive and often double-edged. One is never quite sure whether the advertisers are completely having us on, or not.
They are just as amusing on the web, and possibly more effective: but somebody should find an interactive alternative to the Box Number system. This is just too retro. Do the missives accumulate in the “Box” for a week or so, to be forwarded … Keep Reading
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