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Re: The Magazine and The Mobile Web

mturro — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:12:27 -0000

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Re: The Magazine and The Mobile Web

mturro — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:54:57 -0000

I most definitely agree with that... to a point. I still feel that the medium the words are delivered in has some impact on the nature of the reception of those words in the mind of the reader.

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.

Re: The Magazine and The Mobile Web

BoSacks — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:58:20 -0000

Michael: Very well stated and I agree.
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