December 2009 - Posts

• Classic with a twist: Google, The New York Times and The Washington Post get cosy

  It's good to see that in the run up to the season of goodwill, Google, The New York Times and The Washington Post have cosied up together in a Labs project called 'Living Stories'. According to Google, the site is "an experiment in presenting news, one Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 09 December 2009 17:06 by Peter Springett | 0 Comments

• Cultural collisions in today's Financial Times

  Anyone interested in the face-off between the old word of content and the new should be reading theUK Financial Times today.First off, a fabulous article on MySpace (the News Corp Years) and the demise of one of the hottest online properties ever. Whether Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 05 December 2009 16:30 by Peter Springett | 0 Comments

• After the Sun the flood (of e-magazine demos)

  Following on from yesterday's post where the Sun newspaper poked fun at all things e-reader, here's the perfect riposte, this time from Sports Illustrated, published by Time Inc.What I like about this demo is that while hardware manufacturers remain remarkably Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 03 December 2009 09:06 by Peter Springett | 1 Comments

• Why the Sun's handheld ad says more about the state of papers than e-readers

  Hats off to the Sun newspaper. It's just started broadcasting the UK's cleverest and funniest media ad for many a month.The spot makes some great points about the convenience and versatility of print newspapers versus handheld devices, while taking a Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 02 December 2009 10:18 by Peter Springett | 1 Comments