Posts Tagged ‘print media’

Make it easy to find good reading

A public library in the Madrid metro

When in Mad­rid, I spot­ted a lib­rary for mod­ern com­mut­ing people. I won­der if any­thing like this may be found in other city met­ros? Maybe there is one in Stock­holm, even though I’ve never seen that…

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iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds

Reading on the beach

In one of his What­They­Think Videos, Frank Romano aler­ted me on an inter­est­ing study on the usab­il­ity of eBooks. The ori­ginal art­icle was from Jakob Nielsen’s Alert­box, July 2, 2010.  It was a fairly small study com­pris­ing only 24 people. Each per­son was tried on four read­ing con­di­tions: a prin­ted book, a PC, an iPad, and a Kindle 2. The […]

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Print is Eternal — or…

The fol­low­ing is the first few lines in a hil­ari­ous dis­cus­sion between more or less extinct media types. Mod­er­ator: Wel­come to Obsol­ete Anonym­ous! I’ve gathered you all here to wel­come our latest mem­ber, the Print Industry. Print Industry: Hello, every­one. But there’s been a mis­take. I don’t belong here. (chuckles all...

Victory of “Dead-Tree” Communication

Accord­ing to a recent report in Knowledge@Wharton, mar­ket­ing in print is so much more effect­ive than in digital media. Actu­ally, it is the print that drives the traffic to the web sites! The find­ings were sup­por­ted by sev­eral com­ments to the article. The report was also referred to in the Print...

Digital media are overrated!

An IT researcher at the Hel­sinki Insti­tute for Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy (HIIT) told me that the digital media as web and e-mail are over­rated. Paper and print ar often super­ior. But we are lack­ing (simple) tools to cre­ate prin­ted products (user-generated print media). Unfor­tu­nately, there is no actor that takes this...