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?
Strauss 22
Cook 10… Keep Reading
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
One of the really great things about Twitter is the way that it enables you to build up real, but virtual, and in some cases one-sided, friendships with people in other countries that you would otherwise never have met. I now have about 30 such Twitter friends (as well as 100+ Twitter acquaintances) whose postings I usually look out for. Here are a few of them, in an East to West order: Virginie Clayssen, I like that her tweets … Keep Reading
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