I’ve always been an advocate of publishing/sharing my ideas and thoughts with the wider design/development community. In my experience it results in more informed and rounded conclusions. Louis Lazaris—writing for Smashing Magazine—encourages the documentation of the creative process, along with its subsequent sharing, for similar reasons.

Ubyu is a service aimed at those who want to create and publish their own high quality bespoke books.

Slideshow of NI Newspaper stats. Circa: 2009.

Timbuktu is the first iPad magazine for children. It combines imagination and technology to display news and stories through the most advanced methods of education.

The Economist reports on Amazon's brief withdrawal of API access to Lendle: "The brief outage demonstrates a fundamental truth about the internet: if you don't own the data you need to run your business, you're dependent on the policies—and whims—of the parties that do. Jeff Croft, Lendle's founder, says he will not make that mistake again."

Publisher Adam Engst is interviewed on eReaderJoy about the iPad and other eReaders. Feb 2011.

Similar to MagCloud... only for books. "Make your own book. Make it great."

The award-winning Guardian reporter, Paul Lewis, is to head up a newly-created multimedia special projects team. Lewis will recruit a small team that will be charged with finding new angles on breaking news stories. This includes using multimedia and crowd-sourcing.

Godin examines the cracks in the current corporate publishing model. Identifies avenues he wishes to explore when it comes to methods for spreading ideas and engaging with people. He wishes to figure out who his audience is and take them where they want and need to go.

Modern web sites for: magazines, writers, publishers. A San Francisco based studio specialising in providing content providers with fan-dabby-dosey websites and other related shizzle.

"This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours. The theme was "hustle," and they got 1,502 submissions from around the world. Their 60-page final product is now for sale online, and you can also preview the magazine's contents."

30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.

Daniel Wideman of Lulu on how to use their service to get your eBook into the Apple iBookstore.

Fantastic post by Derek Powazek at powazek.com. It all seems so simple. I'd love to try this out will a failing news-weekly.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.

1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety

Newspapers in the US are reporting profits from the last quarter. Small profits in single figures. "It’s a fragile stability. One big question for all publishers: where do we go from here?" Nieman investigate what these institutions will have to do to remain profitable.

As The New Yorker’s first Web editor, Blake Eskin has led the iconic magazine brand into the digital age. Sparksheet's Dan Levy interviews Eskin about the challenges of maintaining editorial excellence in the digital age.

Nick Bilton reports for the New York Times: "A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad ... Print is dying. Digital is surging."

The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.

Jeff Jarvis on "A new Pew study on the economics of news does not give comfort to news sites planning pay schemes."

The State of the News Media 2010 is the seventh edition of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual report on the health and status of American journalism.

Beet.TV interview Marc Ruxin, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer for McCann Worldgroup on the problems surrounding online video advertising.

Martin Langeveld, a newspaper executive with a background in marketing, PR and strategic planning shares his views on how and why the iPad (and mobile platforms in general) will become dominant platforms in the broadcasting information. Langeveld and his partners run CircLabs Inc. a Silicon Valley-based firm offering a holistic, user-centric suite of solutions aimed at sustaining journalism in a digital world. Fantastic Resource.

"The Batavian is an online-only news site in Batavia, N.Y., published by former GateHouse Media executive Howard Owens." In this article, Mr Owens answers questions from Brian Cubbison (syracuse.com).

Jack Matthews, CEO of Fairfax Digital, talks about the direction in which journalism is headed. Matthew has vast experience in pay television, telecoms and the internet.

Fray began as a website. It presented individually designed, true first-person stories. Each one ended with a question that prompted the audience to tell their stories, too. It evolved into a series of live storytelling events, Fray Days and Fray Cafes, that took place all over the world, attended by thousands of people. Now Fray is evolving again – this time into a quarterly series of independently produced books. Each one will be on a central storytelling theme, and include personal stories, articles, and original art. They come out quarterly. The core of Fray remains unchanged: It’s about true stories. It’s about proving that extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. It’s about finding that common thread that connects us all together.

theBookseller.com interview Dan Franklin, digital editor of Canongate about the significance of Apple's iPad, iBook eReader and iBook Store.

Publishing a magazine independently used to mean spending a lot of money ordering hundreds or thousands of printed copies, and then hoarding the unsold inventory in dusty boxes in your garage for the next decade.

5to1 was created to bring balance back to the marketplace by giving publishers equal control in the ad placement process. The 5to1 platform empowers content owners to ensure ads are placed in the appropriate context, at the appropriate time and for the right audience, so advertisers can achieve maximum value and branding for their clients.

True/Slant is an original content news network tailored to both the “Entrepreneurial Journalist” and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences. Contributors, consumers and marketers each have a voice on True/Slant.

True/Slant is the digital home for the “Entrepreneurial Journalist.” Knowledgeable and credible contributors anchor and build their digital brands on True/Slant using tools that enable them to easily create content and craft stories filtered through human perspective (not an algorithm).

Jeff Jarvis on entrepreneurial news coverage.

The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week (13.01.10). "Blogs can showcase, discuss and dissect new ideas weeks, even months before journals. In the next few years we’ll see if the Kindle will put a torch to those paperbacks that gather dust on our shelves."

"As a means of conveying news in a timely way, paper and ink are less in vogue, eclipsed by the power, efficiency and technological elegance of the Internet" — John Kerry in the Huffington Post

Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

A YouTube clip of Wired's iTablet concept. Checkout the interactive info-graphics around [0.30].

The Web’s largest newsroom: Journalists collaborate to curate the news. Winner of the first Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism.

[Article: Daily Telegraph] It's record companies and not artists who are loosing out to the internet.

Alfredo Trivino describes his redesign of ‘The Australian’ newspaper.

CreatSpace provides free online publishing tools and community that help creatives complete and sell their work on demand. Work can then be distributed on Amazon, their own website or other retailers sites without any setup fees or inventory.

Tom Coates of plasticbag.org has no sympathy for media outlets who failed to foresee the rise and capability of the internet to redefine media publishing.

Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review (formerly of the WSJ) gives a grim assessment of how the Newspaper industry is performing.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Total Paid Circulation.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Advertising Expenditures.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Joshua Benton tells of Argentina's seemingly corrupt journalistic element. Interesting read.

Information Architects developed a pretty tight concept around the idea of usability, readability and cross media connection in their recent unsuccessful bid to redesign the Switzerland's Tages Anzeiger Newspaper.

Here's a nice thing: against the backdrop of layoffs, buyouts, and cutbacks in the media sector, the Columbia Journalism Review is launching a fellowship program to aid downsized journalists -- predominantly baby boomers with years of experience and institutional memory -- by creating an "opportunity to continue doing what they do best: reporting."

From astronomy to activism, from surfing to saving lives, Pro-Ams - people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards - are an increasingly important part of our society and economy.

Based at Harvard University. Aiming for the Future of Journalism.

CNN's online presence has received a major face-lift. Some interesting UI and UX enhancements.

The founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, offers his two-pence on the future of news media. Interesting take on news curation.

By the brilliant Danny Sullivan… "As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories?"

Clay Shirky articulates and develops strategies for funding local reporting.

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports on a talk given by Internet thinker Prof. Clay Shirky at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Sound bytes. Great read/listen.

The Guardian reports that Journalism online promises to get 10% of web readers paying for content, which it says will provide millions in new revenue or struggling newspapers. Hmmm. Skeptical to say the least.

The Arkitip Intel Newspaper Supplement, Vol. 1, gathers contributions from the art journal's 20 bloggers on a 64-page, 22 x 11-inch broadsheet publication. They even put together a beautiful video about its production, starring a real, live printing press. Via GOOD.

Google’s Newspaper & Magazine Reader that allows users to quickly skim through a lot of visually rich news articles from partner publications.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Danny Sullivan spells out to Newspaper publishers that, contrary to their warped beliefs, Google are actually doing them a favour!

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