The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

More Data On the Twitter Explosion

April 29th, 2009

More Data On the Twitter Explosion

The ubiquitous eMarketer todays reports on the Twitter explosion, providing data that complements my earlier blog on the topic. The most salient piece of data in the article is that “eMarketer estimates there were roughly 6 million Twitter users in the US in 2008, or 3.8% of Internet users.” That less than 4% of Internet…

April 28th, 2009

The Future of Digital Magazines

The title of this entry is tongue-in-cheek (at least I’m keeping my tongue in my mouth), as I just discovered Zinio’s little-publicized side venture: Undercover Mags. If you go to the site by clicking on this link, it will take you to the magazines deemed of interest to heterosexuals, and you’ll be greeted with a…

April 20th, 2009

Epaper and the Future of Publishing

Courtesy of Bob Sacks, I’ve just discovered a site devoted to ePaper that is is informative, broad, interesting and not beholden to sponsors (as far as I can tell). Of particular interest is the “E-paper Technologies Reference Guide,” the most thorough I’ve seen to date. If your interest in ePaper is deeper than a pixel,…

April 19th, 2009

The Trouble With Twitter

Found this pointed animation in the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian, which offers a fun feature called Guardian Viral Video Chart, which in turn is pulled in part from Viral Video Chart.