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• And Now, It’s iPad the Prop

  

  TAKEAWAY: The iPad can’t sing or dance, but it is slowly making appearances in such television shows as Smash. Katharine McPhee, Raza Jaffrey,and the iPad in a... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The RIT Reading Digital Symposium: Vision Studies Take Center Stage

  

  TAKEAWAY: A conference at RIT on the subject of reading and digital platforms leads us to think on the fantastic possibilities that lie ahead if we blend the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Meditations on Google, Narratives and (?) Computational Journalism

  

  This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and it will be updated as needed. The next new post will be Monday, April 30.TAKEAWAY: So a Google exec thinks we... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Optimism, Good Solutions and “silver Linings”

  

  TAKEAWAY: Those are the phrases that best describe the sessions during the first day of the WAN IFRA Latin American conference in Santiago de Chile. We report... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• In Boston, an Offer Readers Can’t Resist?

  

  TAKEAWAY: The Boston Globe struts its stuff with an offer for free access to content for a limited time PLUS: Nothing beats the A4 format for printed... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 MEDIA

• Twitter Breaks the News, but Journalists Take It from There and Run with It

  

  TAKEAWAY: The news breaks on Twitter, that’s a fact, but it takes professional journalists to take it beyond that first Tweet. Nothing wrong with that. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA

• Magazine Apps Ready for the Next Big Step in Their Evolution

  

  TAKEAWAY: Those magazine apps are evolving nicely and swiftly. Take a look at this week’s TIME special edition. Also, two new apps from the Joe Zeff Design... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Today is TheMarioBlog Post #1,000—and a New Digital Book is Born

  

  TAKEAWAY: 1,000 blog posts later, we celebrate with the announcement of our new digital book iPad Design Lab: Storytelling in the Age of the TabletThanks to... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Design Contest Judging in 2012: Should Multi Platform Storytelling Be the New...

  

  TAKEAWAY: It was a fun day of judging at the D AD event in London yesterday; some reflections about a special day. PLUS: We do a follow up of De Telegraaf’s ne... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Paper 53: We Are All Illustrators—-maybe!

  

  Here are some of my doodling of the past few days: from a turtle done for fun, to entertain a grandchild, to ideas to use in presentation, to actual sketching... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• I Am Still Here, Too!

  

  TAKEAWAY: Count me in as another of those persons that Newsweek refers to as “Neverretirees”, the ones who love their work, still have the passion and are not... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Paris Match & Gulf News Take Home Top Publication Prizes

  

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  Posted on 15 April 2012 MEDIA

• In the Good News About Newspapers Department, Part 2

  

  TAKEAWAY: It’s local, local, local that editors and publishers need to put their emphasis on, and now a report emphasizes it, too. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Newspapers Become Hot Properties Again?

  This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. TAKEAWAY: So newspapers are becoming hot commodities in the market, in spite of all... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Massimo Gentile: Fun with Type and Illustrations

  

  TAKEAWAY: Massimo Gentile, design director at Italy’s Il Secolo XIX, is not just designing newspaper pages all day. The talented Massimo also tries to do a... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Goteborgs Posten: a Month After Redesign, Revisiting the Front Page

  

  TAKEAWAY: The new front page of the Goteborgs Posten has flexed its muscles now for 30 days: today we check in with news editor Anders Goliger about the... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Greta Sans is Here: Peter Bilak Talks About His Latest Creation

  

  TAKEAWAY: The new Greta Sans has been launched this week, and we designers now have an elegant and classy sans serif to consider for our projects.  We do a... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Today’s Media Consumer: Jumping from One Platform to the Next

  

  TAKEAWAY: A new study by Time Inc. validates what we suspected: digital natives move between platforms subconsciously. The challenge for editors and designers:... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 MEDIA

• The Night the Lights Went out

  

  TAKEAWAY: A recent power failure in my neighborhood lasted almost 8 hours, so I found myself totally disconnected and reading on my iPad by candlelight. It is... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• De Telegraaf’s Weekend Edition Launch (2): We Show You the Process

  

  This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and it will be updated with more images of De Telegraaf FridayTAKEAWAY: It’s a new weekend edition for the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 MEDIA