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Emerging Media

A running report on must-read news, analysis and resources from the content landscape. Updated frequently. »


Watch Henry Jenkins discuss Transmedia Storytelling (video) « theory.isthereason.

03.30.10 | Content Specialists, Custom & Branded Content, Emerging Media, Video

  • Print shovelware: Those that merely recreate the page-turning experience on the digital screen.
  • Interactive editions: They’re recognisably a magazine, but navigation and animation really take advantage of what is essentially a screen.
  • Motion-heavy mags: Co-produced by film makers, they’re as much a video narrative as a magazine.
  • Web shells: Lazy apps that merely funnel through a publication’s existing website.
  • Live info: Divorced from monthly print cycle, an article can take advantage of the real-time web.

Robert Andrews, Taking The Tablet: 15 Ways Publishers Are Re-Imagining The Magazine | paidContent.

03.25.10 | Business Strategy, Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Products & Services, Resources

Robert Andrews, UK publishers sceptical on iPad impact | Media | guardian.co.uk.

03.22.10 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift

[E]verything iPad is clearly being driven by the design team, much more than by the editors and journalists, whose job is still to write and wrangle text.
via Felix Salmon, Magazines on the iPad | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.

03.19.10 | Business Strategy, Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Platforms & Channels

Wired’s iPad tablet app: lookin’ good.

02.17.10 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels

via Luke Hayman, Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.

5 Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design

02.01.10 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels, Theory & Practice

via Mag+ on Vimeo.

01.20.10 | Emerging Media, Technologies

 

Wikipedia (Wikipedia) is a great knowledge base, containing tons of text and lots of photos, but it’s lacking when it comes to videos, which are, well, quite scarce. This is all going to change in a couple of months, as Wikipedia has big plans for video; both in the sense of having more videos on the site, and letting contributors edit and annotate the actual videos. (more…)

12.14.09 | Emerging Media, Video

Beet.TV: HP has Created the "Newsstand of the Future" with Adobe

12.14.09 | Emerging Media

Beats and Tweets: Journalistic Guidelines for the Facebook Era – Inside NPR.org Blog : NPR.

11.09.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media

 

“I’m sure some publishers will have some objections to something like this but (at the same time) many traditional publishers also objected to blogs.”

via Google’s Latest Ambition: A Universal Commenting System For The Web | paidContent.

10.27.09 | Emerging Media, Enterprise, Products & Services

How Yelp deals with everybody getting four stars (on average) | VentureBeat.

How Yelp deals with everybody getting four stars (on average)

10.26.09 | Emerging Media, Products & Services, Theory & Practice

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