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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.

April 16th, 2009

The Publishing Crisis Moves Down the Food Chain

A front page story on most North American newspapers (and certainly all Canadian ones) is that AbitibiBowater, the world’s biggest newsprint producer (40% marketshare) has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and plans to file for similar protection in Montreal on Friday. According to the report in the (Toronto) Globe & Mail, “U.S….