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Jan. 31: A recap of the Poynter chat today with Scott Goldman

The live chat I hosted this afternoon at Poytner.org — with guest Scott Goldman, director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star — went over pretty well. I was worried that we might not get enough great questions. I needn’t have worried. The crowd had fabulous questions. And Scott provided terrific answers. Poynter has asked me to contribute to [...]

Dec. 22, 2011: Cool idea: Sunday Times publishing iPad-only edition on Christmas Day

In 1912, writes Arif Durrani of UK Media Week, the Sunday Times of London started a tradition of not publishing on Christmas Day. The idea, of course: To give employees the day off. (A secondary benefit, perhaps: We’ve found, over the years, that single-copy sales pretty much suck on holidays. But let’s not go there right now.) The Times of [...]

Dec. 1, 2011: How to promote an iPad app

Magazine design guru Robert Newman — now the creative director of Reader’s Digest — is proud of his magazine’s iPad app, of course. But he’s also proud of the video they put together to stir up buzz about that app. The animation was created by Alan Becker. Find more of his work here. If you find yourself with a sudden [...]

Nov. 23, 2011: Alejandro Banuet named chief creative officer of Publish88

Alejandro Banuet writes to us today from Monterrey, Mexico… As of Nov. 1st, I’ve left my position as a design manager editor for Grupo Reforma to work for Publish88 as chief creative officer. Publish88‘s mission is to provide a versatile and powerful software platform to worldwide magazine and newspaper publishers, allowing them to produce, distribute and profit from their contents through [...]

Nov. 12, 2011: It was just a matter of time before ‘augmented reality’ turned to this

There are lots of cool applications out there for what they’re calling “augmented reality.” Lots of ways to tell powerful stories. Lots of ways to make difficult topics more understandable. Lots of ways to provide insight to our readers. But screw all that. Michigan-based winter clothing retailer Moosejaw has found what “augmented reality” can really do. It’s offering a new [...]

Nov. 9, 2011: Flash finally dies 19 months after it was mortally wounded by Apple

Jack Shafer of Reuters said it best, perhaps, today via Twitter: [Steve] Jobs wins one from the grave. Adobe Systems announced today it was abandoning development of a Flash player for mobile devices. This comes after announcing Tuesday the company will lay off up to 750 employees.     Flash runs on neither Apple’s iPhone nor iPad, thanks to decisions [...]

Sept. 15, 2011: How South African papers prepared for the Rugby World Cup

I’m more than a week late in posting this, so my apologies to any rugby fans out there. But my friends in South Africa have been very, very busy this summer, preparing for the Rugby World Cup, which started last Friday in New Zealand and runs through Oct. 23. Andre Gouws — editor of Graphics24, which supplies infographics to all [...]

Dec. 13, 2010: Mario Garcia on the emerging art of iPad design (3)

This morning, Mario Garcia published a very interesting blog entry on what he says are becoming the four categories of iPad newspaper design. 1. The e-readers Mario says: Simply put PDFs of your pages there and the user flips through them.  It works as a first step to get you into the iPad, but it should not be a sustainable, [...]

Nov. 9, 2010: Cool promotional video for the Washington Post’s new iPad app

Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and a slew of others. Marketing just doesn’t get any better than this.

Oct. 28, 2010: Harsh words from Khoi Vinh for iPad publication design (1)

Khoi Vinh — until lately, the design director of NYTimes.com — has harsh words for the current state of publication design for the iPad: My opinion about iPad-based magazines is that they run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless something changes, will remain at odds with the way people will use tablets as the medium matures. They’re [...]

Oct. 27, 2010: New iPad app appears to scrape from Newseum front page archive (3)

The creator denies it. But it looks like a rip off to me. And to Megan Heaton, a blogger for the Unofficial Apple Weblog, as well as a news designer for the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa. Of course, you know all about the Newseum. It’s a nonprofit journalism museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C. but — more importantly for [...]

Oct. 18, 2010: $#*! Captain Kirk says (2)

Included in Sunday’s Parade magazine was a Q&A with William Shatner, star of $#*! My Dad Says but famous forever as Star Trek‘s Capt. James T. Kirk. An excerpt: One of my most prized possessions is an iPad; I’m locked into the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times on that. But I still get the Los Angeles Times [...]

Oct. 15, 2010: Creativity and inspiration? There’s an app for that…

Now, for your iPad: The TED app. And what’s more, the app is free. Here’s the pitch, from the iTunes preview page: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. TED presents talks from some of the world’s most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. Find more than 700 TEDTalk videos (with [...]

Oct. 7, 2010: Running the newsroom of the future: The art director? (3)

Oh, you’re going to love this… I was forwarded today a very interesting press release from WAN-IFRA and the big World Editors Forum going on in Europe this week. Since it is a press release — and I can’t find the original online anywhere — I’ll quote liberally, if you don’t mind: Hamburg, Germany, 7 October 2010 For immediate release [...]

Sept. 24, 2010: Even iPad design should be about the content. And about the readers. (4)

Nieman Journalism Lab director Joshua Benton observed this week that the new redesign of the New York Times‘ online opinion page… …looks, feels and operates a lot like a good iPad app might look: Benton writes: Stories set into big touchable-looking blocks; non-standard web typography; more white space and more room for graphics than 99 percent of newspaper websites offer. [...]

Sept. 13, 2010: Knight Foundation offering class in interactive census data presentation

Len De Groot – longtime Fort Lauderdale graphics whiz who left last year to join the Knight Foundation at the University of California Berkeley — tells us his organization is offering training later this year. Training in which you might be interested. Len writes: The Knight Digital Media Center is holding an Interactive Census Workshop Dec. 12-17 at the UC [...]

Aug. 5, 2010: Essential iPad apps for print designers

A while back, I relayed the gushings of Ernie Smith — of the Washington Post‘s Express tab as well as founder of the Short Form Blog — as he endorsed Getty Images’ iPad interface. That iPad app — and nine more — have been tapped as the ten essential iPad applications for publication designers by Reed Reibstein of the Society [...]