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…..
Google have changed some aspects of their reading-interface. See their blog announcement.
There are a couple of aspects to the new style that I dont like. Google Book Search now lets you scroll down a book in the way that you might scroll down a PDF file with a slider. It doesnt help me that you get pages in a cut-off situation and not always regularly in the middle of your viewing area. Just because we have had this system … Keep Reading
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
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