iPad media publishers need to rethink their strategies
More opinion pieces based on the reports of declining iPad magazine sales have come to light. One by Mathew Ingram on the GigaOM blog widens the scope to look not just at magazines but at all those who...
View ArticleNew York Times paywall price leaked: Under $20 per month
The New York Times moves inexorably toward implementing a paywall on its website. An article on Bloomberg cites an anonymous source as saying the price will be less than the $19.99 per month currently...
View ArticlePaul Carr: On free sites, SEO fluff crowds out journalism
Paul Carr’s latest column on TechCrunch looks at an interesting problem that arises from the ad-and-search-based nature of many Internet blogs and publications. The problem is that sites that make...
View ArticleWeb/iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Ibis Reader
Paul linked to a positive Project Gutenberg review of Ibis Reader a few months ago, but it first came to my direct attention when I tried out Jolicloud and discovered what it was: a web-based EPUB...
View ArticleLate-breaking Bin Laden story stopped New York Times presses
The New York Times has a column on how the late-night bombshell of the Bin Laden takedown affected the Times’s newspaper production process, coming as it did after most newspapers had already sent...
View ArticleNew research paper: “How much of the Web is archived?”
How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF)by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. NelsonPresented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This MonthFrom a Web Science...
View ArticleHow to surf the Web on an iriver Story HD
Even if an ereader device doesn’t include a proper web browser, odds are that if you’re shopping on an online ebookstore, there’s a way to jump the fence and check out the rest of the Web. Nate at The...
View ArticleStudy suggests readers read, comprehend more from print than e-newspapers
Last week, Slate had a piece by Jack Shafer that I only just got around to reading about a comparison between the print and on-line versions of the New York Times. Based on his own experiences, and on...
View ArticleNewspapers should move to digital, rethink content strategies, says...
Here’s another of those “the print ship is sinking, hurry up and get off it” posts you see every so often, this one a guest post on TechCrunch by Jordan Kurzweil, co-CEO of digital business agency...
View ArticleWhy Harper’s Magazine avoids the web
Alex Madrigal, senior editor of The Atlantic, has written an editorial calling out Harper’s publisher John MacArthur for refusing to allow his magazine to have anything to do with the Internet....
View ArticleIrish Senator proposes “pay to post” Internet
Using an iPhone in Ireland to connect to the Internet? Get your passport out. The legislature of Ireland, the Oireachtas Éireann, is exploring the topic of Internet safety and cyberbullying, and the...
View ArticleStorylane Will Join Forces with Facebook
By Christina Jones Storylane, the personal blogging platform and social space, just announced it’s joining forces with Facebook. The latest News Feed update wasn’t enough to show how much the social...
View ArticleA Commercial Message from the First ‘Honest’ Cable Company (NSFW Video)
It’s probably safe to say that we’ve all dealt with our fair share of ridiculousness, bestowed complimentary-style from our local Internet service providers. Hidden fees, promotions that are too good...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber App is Now Available for iPad, Turns Tablet into a Remote
By Christina Jones The Android app has already been released, but the iPad app for Google Fiber is now available. It doubles as a remote, allowing users to search TV programs, on-demand shows and...
View ArticleWhy Yahoo’s Flickr Expansion Might be Too Late
Lifehacker has a great analysis of why Yahoo’s recent Flickr tweaking is a little but underhanded—paid users, who never had a storage limit in the first place, suddenly do, and there are ads now…...
View ArticleJim Duncan, Colorado Library Consortium executive director, speaks out in...
What kind of national digital library system—or systems, plural—should the U.S. create? Read Parts One and Two of a new series where Jim Duncan, executive director of the Colorado Library Consortium...
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I want it all! Toward more powerful, more comprehensive search
You’re probably pretty happy with Google search today, right? It’s incredibly fast, extremely reliable and almost always delivers the desired results. What more could you ask for? I think the problem...
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Javascript user prohibitions are content DRM in microcosm—and even less...
Update: See the comments for the blogger’s explanation. Her site had been recently hacked; her webmaster had asked her server host for increased security but got considerably more than they had...
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Sleazy writers are the new spammers—and I’m thrilled to see the FTC crack...
They arrive every few days—e-mail spams from sleazy “expert writers” offering to create TeleRead posts for free. Of course, there’s a catch. The posts will contain links to the companies paying these...
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Is Wish.com for real? $22 one-terabyte memory key? $1 10-foot cell phone...
Happy New Year, TeleReaders! The prices in the headline are what I paid this week at an Amazon rival called Wish. Its parent company, ContextLogic in San Francisco, is supposedly worth more than $3...
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