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February 16, 11
The silver lining in Apple’s subscription announcement
As with almost ALL Apple communications there is enough vague language and under-specified “requirements” in the two paragraphs clipped at the end of this post to set off a blaze of debate capable of consuming nearly all the oxygen on

January 14, 11
Are magazine publishers taking their reader engagement cues from drug dealers?
The following sums up in a single sentence EXACTLY why so many magazine publishers are destined to fail on the iPad or any other tablet. They have no interest in engaging their readers on any other level than the cold,

January 9, 11
Boehner, Birthers, and a parking lot in Arizona
John Boehner, as Speaker of the House, is now second in line for the highest office in the land. He is, as much as the President himself, a guiding voice in the great discussion that is American politics. When a

January 5, 11
Hey America! Put down the Cheetos–there’s a scumbag in your pocket.
What truly amazes me is the extent to which folks in the USA just don’t see this. Sure there is some vague anger out there over the economy, but the way in which that anger is directed away from Wall

December 15, 10
Whether you’re #tcot, tea party, liberal, democrat, republican – chances are you’re being f*d by Jamie Dimon
There’s not much to say about this… it makes me sick and more than just a little worried about where the path we’re on may lead. What I find most worrisome isn’t simply the amount of money being made by

November 11, 10
The net shifts from mass media to mess media – @kevin2kelly
For some time now I have been trying, both publicly and privately, to more clearly understand and communicate my gut feeling that the magazine format–and the mode of reading it represents–is not an anachronism in a networked media ecology. To

October 31, 10
A response to a response to a response of @khoi on iPad magazines
There is indeed a misunderstanding at work here, but I think it’s spencerotica who is misunderstanding my point in response to Khoi’s post (which does in fact question the relevance of the “mode of reading the a magazine represents”).

October 28, 10
@Khoi Vinn’s Beautiful Mistake
Khoi Vinn is absolutely right–about the obvious, most agreed upon points of failure in the current crop of iPad magazines. You can’t share from them (though from some you can), they are lacking integrated subscription models (though some are not), and they