Ebooks vs Digital Magazines
Yesterday Amazon announced its latest quarterly financial results. One of the highlights was the news that ebooks for the Kindle…
Google puts the ‘product guy’ in charge
The news that Larry Page has taken over from Eric Schmidt as CEO at Google was unexpected but in retrospect not…
Back to work, back to distraction
So I thought I was going to ease slowly back into gear in 2011. But now here we are, two…
What I learned during the holidays (about user experience, digital publishing and all that)
I don’t know about you, but I find the Christmas break offers a great time to reflect. As I spend…
Great content is about story telling and authenticity
Tomorrow I’m delivering a keynote speech to Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines Bristol. I’ll be talking about crafting content in…
Flipboard: social media where content comes first
Everyone’s talking about Flipboard, the magazine/social media hybrid for the iPad. It looks like this really could point the way…
Is it time for the consumer to compromise a little bit?
Okay, so we’ve known for some time that in online media the consumer is king. But is it just me…
Content, the second coming
I nearly called this post Content 2.0, but decided we’re all a little bit jaded with the 2.0 label these…
Publishers should look to the future not the past
We know things are looking tough for pre-digital ‘legacy’ publishers, and have been for some time. But during the past…
3 good reasons to buy an iPad on April 3rd
I admit I’m a bit of an Apple fanboy – I’ve used Mac computers for years, I have a MacBook,…