The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
August 20th, 2009
Printing an article this afternoon from Canada’s The Globe and Mail, I encountered an unexpected print dialog box that I thought was pretty nifty. Instead of just offering the standard print dialog box from the OS, and printing a copy to paper or PDF, suddenly there are additional options which may be handy for you,…
April 28th, 2009
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…
March 7th, 2009
I’ve been meaning to blog this for several weeks (oops, “blog” is now a verb!). I recall clearly that in the early days of the Web that Martin Nisenholtz at The New York Times supervised the creation of a series of engaging graphics that struck me as emblematic of what online newspapers versions could do…
March 7th, 2009
This is a depressing little piece, that as far as I can tell originated in the Financial Times in the U.K. (although my link is to another source). It is well-reasoned and cogent. Simply to report on 12 of the worst basket cases does not necessarily represent the entire picture accurately, but I think provides…
January 25th, 2009
I’m torn. A twitter can alert us to breaking news at speeds far faster than any newspaper ever could. Yet with its 140-character limit it surely cannot do much more than create an alert and a quick observation. There’s a huge gulf between a twitter and investigative journalism. In a perfect world, Twitter would eventually…