The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 4th, 2010
The release of Apple’s iPhone 4G has become a midsummer blockbuster. No vampires — just out of control electronics, deceitful software, and scary artificial limbs. It started as a winner… But a problem fixed became a problem created… And of course the lawsuits start flying left and right. Suddenly Steve Jobs generates one of his infamous…
July 2nd, 2010
In return, my best wishes to The Times and The Sunday Times, founded in 1788. Now owned by Rupert Murdoch, who purchased the paper from the Thomson Corporation in 1981, this is the launch of his born-again content-is-more-important-than-advertising initiative.
July 1st, 2010
I was reading David Pogue’s always-interesting Thursday New York Times personal technology column, which yesterday was in two parts. The second discusses new mobile phone software called Swype. According to Pogue “It’s a new way to enter text, invented expressly for touchscreen phones…. When you use Swype, you see what looks like a standard onscreen keyboard….
June 23rd, 2010
(Flash required.) First click once on the image below; when the video starts, click “Skip this ad” in the upper right-hand corner… Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers And The Washington Post is now printing on fluffy pancakes with a side of bacon! From The Onion.
June 16th, 2010
ReadWriteWeb does a periodic analysis of the all-time top 10 YouTube videos (by the simple metric of number of views). As reported on the site with its latest summary (June, 2014): We first did this list in August 2007, at which point Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply was number 1 with nearly 56 million…