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According to Digg founder Kevin Rose (and bunches of others too numerous to name here) the mobile web is the next great frontier… the next great landscape of media transformation… the evolution of the revolution. Mobility is the future. Mobility is ubiquitous. And coinc
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1 year ago
I wrote the following yesterday on my Blog and reading yours today, it seemed that they could fit together.
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The real issues facing some of my print friends and pundits, is that they seem to forget that it is actually the words, the journalism, the thinking, and the final distribution of that wisdom, that contains any meaningful importance. Why does it matter so much if it is paper or plastic? What is the difference? Who really cares?
I’m on my 5th Palm ebook now and here is what I have found. The words are a transportation device. The words take you wherever a good author or journalist intended you go. It doesn’t matter to the transportation system, what the substrate is, could be paper could be plastic. Words don't know and don't care how they are read. They just want to be understood
1 year ago
I still think that mobile devices have a long way to go before they can deliver anything close to the same experience that reading a well designed magazine delivers.
Ultimately publishers are in a holding pattern created by the uncertainty in the consumer electronics industry. When the technology stabilizes (which I think it will) and standards start to gel to the point that designers can reliably create good design for that technology, we'll start to see real traction and new life for the digital magazine.
7 months ago
Sent via mobile (so please excuse the brevity and any typos)