Comments on: Newspaper watch: Yeah, right edition

By: thebanana

thebanana — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:59:37 +0000

Any gizmo that forces me to watch commercials will never cross my doorstep.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:22:32 +0000

Print does one thing very well. This was shown cleverly in that British “Sun” ad you posted a while back.

Digital does its own thing very well. The wisdom comes in knowing (and respecting) the difference. Flailing about blindly is not an option.

By: Grant Hamilton

Grant Hamilton — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:29:03 +0000

Declining newspaper readership aside (I would argue that, forget the paper, NEWS readership is waaaay up) I have high hopes for the future of digital journalism

But this ain’t it. It’s too …. curated … for lack of a better word.

To my eye, this is like Warner Music preparing an ad for an ipod in the late 90s — it would showcase a single artist’s albums, with extra digital content like live shows and behind-the-scenes and maybe an online game. But if you wanted David Bowie as well as U2, you’d have to buy another ipod.

What do people actually do with ipods? Well, they buy fewer albums, and have gone back to the single. But they download podcasts, and mashups and share playlists.

Apple is apparently shopping around a digital tablet that might do the same thing for print that it did for music. You’ll get the power to make your own news “playlist”, one story at a time, rather than depending on a news organization to sell it to you by the edition.

By: Matt Goerzen

Matt Goerzen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:58:59 +0000

@ Mikatron… and that is why people are generally becoming dumber….

Seriously though Grant, I have to agree. Nice technology, but there’s no way they’re going to make this easy for the consumer.

By: Mikatron

Mikatron — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:51:29 +0000

I guess we’ll just have to stick with a good ol’newspaper…

Oh wait! No one reads those anymore!!!