“Whoever defines the interface wins.”

via The Time Inc./Condé Supergroup Conundrum – Bill Mickey – Blogs emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com.

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Traditional publishers — concerned that Apple’s anticipated tablet computer could affect their business the way the iPod disempowered music publishers — are discussing possible strategies, including an industry-wide digital storefront where tablet users could buy digital issues or subscriptions without going through iTunes or the App Store.

via Apple Tablet: Magazine Industry Eyes ITunes for Print – Advertising Age – MediaWorks.

Earlier this year, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore tasked her lieutenant John Squires with figuring out how to put the digital “genie back in the bottle”. Here’s part of his answer: A Hulu for magazines.

via Publishers Like Time Inc.’s “Hulu For Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.

Mindful of what happened to the music industry at a similar transitional juncture, book publishers are about to discover whether their industry is different enough to be spared a similarly dismal fate.

via Digital Domain – Will Piracy Become a Problem for E-Books? – NYTimes.com.

Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on “data” to feed our stories, to the point that “data-driven reporting” becomes second nature to journalists.

via Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century.

“There is going to be a very broad content economy in the future and we’d like AOL to be at the centre of it [....] The one underinvested place on the internet from a technology and structured data perspective is content,” Mr. [Tim] Armstrong said.

via Kenneth Li, FT.com / Technology – AOL sets sights on content-led domination.

The blogosophere has at least four Fields medallists (the Nobel of math), three Nobelists, and many more luminaries. The New York Times can keep its Pulitzer Prizes [....] The result is that the people who add the most value to information are no longer the people who do production and distribution. Instead, it’s the technology people, the programmers.

via Michael Nielsen.