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• Lou Silverstein: a Real Design Maestro (1919-2011)

  

  TAKEAWAY: The world of news design loses one of its most influential practitioners, one that all of us learned much from, especially that change is always... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Revisiting Dubai, Washington Projects

  

  TAKEAWAY: In this, our weekend blog post, we show you pages from Dubai’s Gulf News, as well as The Washington Post: projects that are in... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• 40 Years-40 Lessons (17)  Pause..

  

  TAKEAWAY: This is part 17 of my occasional series 40 Years/40 Lessons, which I call a “sort of career memoir” capturing highlights and reminiscing about what ha... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Magazine Apps Need More of the Tablet Rich Experience—-not Less

  

  TAKEAWAY: The tablet is one of the best things that has happened to storytelling because it allows for media rich experiences that are essential to fulfilling... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Projecting into the Future Better Than Lamenting the Present

  

  TAKEAWAY: True, the day to day of running a newspaper publishing house today is challenging, but publishers need to become more visionary and start looking at 1... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Art of the Interview (and Journalism Students Who Don’t Practice It!)

  

  TAKEAWAY: It’s a recurring theme, and its frequency disturbs me: journalism students who ask for an interview, to which I agree, then they show a total lack of... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• On the Occasion of Our 900th Blog Post: a Video Greeting

  

  As it is the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States, today’s blog post is our weekend entry, and will be updated as needed. The next new blog post will be... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Question of Frequency for Newspapers

  

  TAKEAWAY: It’s the elephant in the room of newsrooms, particularly in the US; will newspapers stop being “dailies” and publish less often? The conversation... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Path of a News Story

  TAKEAWAY: How a breaking news story travels today; it begins with a Tweet, and not necessarily one written by a journalist. The challenges of covering breaking... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• From Here and There: a Variety of Topics of Interest

  

  TAKEAWAY: Some links on tablet usage, iPad magazines, the Kindle Fire, responsive web design, and more. A comparison of desktop and tablet users from a... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Gulf News Tablet: When Curated Editions Do Their Unique Best

  

  TAKEAWAY: What happens when the team of a newspaper’s curated tablet edition comes together to put together a package that is unique to that platform? Usually,... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• In Sweden: Most Popular Cooking Magazine Now an App

  

  TAKEAWAY: When it comes to cooking and entertaining, most Swedes have always turned to Icakuriren magazine as the authority. Now its wealth of recipes, party... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• The Return of Those Evening Newspaper Editions

  

  TAKEAWAY: Resurrection is the word many are using to describe the reappearance of the long time evening daily, Pittsburgh Press, now back as an online newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Why It’s Turning into an HTML5 World

  

  TAKEAWAY: It seems to be the indispensable item of discussion these days: the importance of HTML5. The ever-growing popularity of HTML5 It happened again... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s Good News for the Media with iPads Everywhere

  

  TAKEAWAY: From the kitchen to the cockpit and in the hands of TV anchormen: it is the iPad, this incredible tablet that is making us re-evaluate a lot of what w... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Tablet Design: Several Ways to Go with Look and Feel

  

  TAKEAWAY: It is a decision that must be made early, how will your tablet edition look when the user’s eyes first land on it? Three different ways of presenting... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• It’s Monday: Time for a Variety of Musings from Cookbooks to Ciao to Bunga Bunga...

  

  TAKEAWAY: Cooking and iPad apps: the way we follow a recipe may be changing ALSO: Ciao to bunga bunga time AND: Ads that sparkleWhat’s cooking on the... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• New Straits Times: It is 11-11-11 and Launch Day

  

  TAKEAWAY: Finally the day it is here, all those number one’s, 11-11-11, which have resonated in the newsroom of the New Straits Times for about six months, at... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• New Straits Times Relaunch: The Digital Platforms

  

  TAKEAWAY: As the countdown to 11-11-11 gets closer, we devote this week’s blog to the rethinking of the new New Straits Times of Malaysia. Today: the digital... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• New Straits Times Relaunch: Creating the Color Palette

  

  TAKEAWAY: As the countdown to 11-11-11 gets closer, we devote this week’s blog to the rethinking of the new New Straits Times of Malaysia. Today: the role of... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH