apple
Oh, the irony. You can’t (currently) sign up for Apple’s new News Publisher [https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/] (for the new News app [http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/#apps]) on the iPad it’ll be publishing to. More thoughts on News to come – once I’m done
editors
Interesting insight into The Magazine [http://www.marco.org/2014/06/23/elephant] and its (previously unknown, I believe) near-death experience: > Having a “built-in audience” from a 5by5 show, Tumblr, Instapaper, and Marco.org didn’t sustain The Magazine. I sold it because it was cratering under my ownership
digital editions
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/the-loop-ipad-3685.html] While we’re on the topic of iPad magazine apps [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/04/ipad-magazines-a-predictable-publisher-r.html] : > We in the publishing game have a name for this phenomenon – we call it “shovelware”. We used to use
iPad
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/newsstand-again-3682.html] David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing [http://www.29.io] talking about magazine apps: > What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of
consumer magazines
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/country-walking-ipad-3514.html] Just came across this explanation of why hobby magazines no longer have broad appeal [http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/outdoor-magazines-have-they-had-their-day/009268/] , by a former editor of various outdoor magazine titles: > So why does someone with a long-term
Adobe
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/287273.jpg-3505.html] As I said in my last post, the disruptor can be disrupted [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/02/the_decline_and_fall_of_quark_xpress.html] … Henry Taylor, writing for the MediaBriefing [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/
bath test
Dropping your Apple tablet into the bath water is a lot more expensive that dropping a magazine. Does this sleeve solve the issue?
apps
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/12/newsstand-7.jpg] This piece tallies with what I’m hearing about magazine apps on tablets [http://gigaom.com/2013/12/15/the-tablet-magazine-ship-is-sinking-fast/] right now: > Publishers must break free of the Newsstand and InDesign/PDF trap and invest in
Blogging
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/9175294333_a710c0b89c_o.jpg] Nice to see that someone else has found my lightweight mobile blogging kit [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/lightweight_liveblogging_kit.html] suggestsions useful. Billy Abbot will be live beer blogging with a
cameras
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/light-liveblogging-kit.jpg] Monday’s Hacks/Hackers Brighton [http://www.meetup.com/Hacks-Hackers-Brighton/] was my opportunity to test-drive a lightweight liveblogging kit. I’m used to lugging around a MacBook Pro and a Canon DSLR with a few lenses for
apple
John Gruber [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/29/meeker-trends]: > iPad has grown three times faster than iPhone did. This might be the most overlooked/underestimated fact about Apple today. I did not know that. That’s just changed the way I think about the future of journalism. ponders
iPad
Is Newsstand publishing about to become as easy as blogging [http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/12/29th-street-publishing-wants-to-make-selling-magazines-for-ipads-as-easy-as-blogging/] ? > Publishing to a Newsstand app looks a lot like publishing a blog post, a matter of filling in fields — but instead of hitting “Publish” and winding up at a URL, you pop