Follow-up to Jack Shafer's review of digital editions (see below). The first review was largely negative, with Shafer reckoning that digital editions didn't "fit" well with screens, and that the software was "too rudimentary". Now he says "the electronic editions of Florida Today and the Guardian are changing my thinking. The future of newspapering might be closer than I thought". What makes these two satand out, he argues, is that they both handle context better than their rivals. He concludes: "If pressed to give a best-in-show award, I'd give the nod to the electronic Guardian for its superior, simple, and self-explanatory navigation. This is one electronic edition that doesn't need a user's manual. Printing stories, e-mailing them, displaying pages in PDF, and searching keywords are all very easy in the electronic Guardian. But Florida Today isn't far behind."
(From Slate)
Saturday, May 22, 2004
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