Monday, May 3, 2010

Magazine World - No.64 Q1.2010 [2 - 3]

See the "President's Comments" on p.3.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

"Ander Monson’s ‘Vanishing Point’: The Future of the Book - Paper Cuts Blog" - NYTimes.com

This interlinking of text and electronics is where I have long urged newspapers to go, and so few, if any, have yet arrived.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Comments - how can there be a limit?

I was going to post a comment on the New York Times website to alert them to the planned closing of Austrian airspace tonight. The NYT has a great colleciton of current information on many airports but at this writing, Austrian aireports are not included. So here is what I saw on the page when I clicked to add the note:

"readers' comments


Volcanic Ash to Curtail Air Traffic Into Midday FridayBack to Article »

By NICOLA CLARK and LIZ ROBBINS

The plume of ash from a volcano in Iceland forced aviation authorities to order the restrictions, affecting thousands of flights in a wide arc from Ireland to Scandinavia.
Are you affected by the travel disruptions? Share your experience.
Comments are no longer being accepted."

I added the bold face for the last line. Is that dumb or what on the part of the Times? A great example of some techie at the Times not asking reporters if they wanted to maintain a flow of input from readers, I bet.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Doctor and Patient - Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork - NYTimes.com

Part of the societal evolution affecting printed newspapers are the changing balances for so many people between what they read and what they write. Historically, apart from education, much of what most people did was to read, in part because writing always required so much more of an effort - the pen that needed to refilled, the pager that needed to be had, the mistakes that needed to be corrected, etc. That eveolved with technology as writing instruments got better, easier and cheper. It also evolved as machines have made it easier to write from typewriters to computer and handheld devices.

So, too, professional work has evolved in a similar but not exactly parallel fashion.

Printed newspapers, however, have taken little of this into account except in pre-press, as newspapers call it, and general conputeriszaiton.

How, in the case of this linked story, does a newspaper become the best friend of the young doctor suffering udner the weight of kestroking deands. If newspapers cannot see a way to help, they ought not be in their business.

"Sun-Times' Tyree: Print newspapers will survive for 10 years" - Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog

"Campaign: newspapers alive, well -- Page 1" -- Times Union - Albany NY

"Martin Langeveld may be crowning print king too soon" - Editors Weblog

"newspaper-print-capri-leggings BLKWHT" - GoJane.com

"Currents - Wallpaper - Newspaper Becomes Wallpaper" - NYTimes.com

"Amazon.com: The Imperfectionists: A Novel - Tom Rachman"

"At French Conference, Virtual Reality Meets Reality" - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

"Nikkei Restricts Links to Its New Web Site" - NYTimes.com