Time’s foray into personalized publishing: Time Mine

April 27, 2009 2 comments

Several weeks ago, Time announced a personalized print magazine, which mixes content from several Time publications, and delivers a selection to each reader based on their preferences. It was meant to be a five edition series (now extended to six because the first issue contained errors…), and is funded by Lexus to advertise their new [...]

Why should newspapers ask readers to save them?

April 20, 2009 No comments yet

I just came across this article from a German newsite: The great extinction of the American newspaper
Great title. And some interesting points raised. But I must get out my soapbox regarding one of the conclusions that the author makes.
“But there is still hope that the American readers will wake up to the death of their [...]

You want to be a journalist?

April 15, 2009 1 comment

Following Sarah Lacy’s controversial post on Techcrunch, “Who the hell is enrolling in journalism school right now?“, which ridiculed j-school training, several student journalists have asked me for my thoughts on the matter. I certainly don’t believe journalism is dead, but it is very apparent that the traditional structures for supporting quality journalism are dead.
Dan [...]

A comparison of digital magazine providers

April 7, 2009 6 comments

One of the most frequently asked questions we have to field, is how idio differs from the other digital magazine providers. Since there are fundamental differences in our approach and process, I thought I would write a quick post explaining the differences.
The digital magazine providers (such as Ceros, Texterity, Zmags, Nxtbooks, Mymagz, Zinio etc etc [...]