Bye bye Blogger

I'm trying to bundle some of my various web overtures together in a single place. So I've exported the text from this blog onto my site at http://keyloom.com/

New posts will appear there only. This blog is now solely fit for archeology.

Bye

Apple have focused on shared use of tablet, reckons WSJ

The Wall Street Journal says Apple spent a lot of time considering how a tablet device might be used communally in homes and classrooms: being handed around, or used by a group as a portable TV/video device.

One person familiar with the matter said Apple has put significant resources into designing and programming the device so that it is intuitive to share. This person said Apple has experimented with the ability to leave virtual sticky notes on the device and for the gadget to automatically recognize individuals via a built-in camera. It's unclear whether these features will be included at launch.

Notable too are the third parties the WSJ identifies as having been in discussion with Apple about content for the device (and their industries): the New York Times (newspapers), Condé Nast (mags), HarperCollins (books), CBS & Walt Disney (TV), and Electronic Arts (games).

The WSJ posits that Apple's ambitions echo what they did so successfully with iPod/iTunes - i.e. establishing a new market for what are basically existing goods. "Mr Jobs has a longstanding strategy of devising new ways to access and pay for quality content, instead of reinventing the content." Key to this is finding a space in punters' lives for the device to inhabit.

The article also alludes to Apple's plans to turn iTunes into a website:

A central part of the new strategy is to populate as many Web sites as possible with 'buy' buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to Internet radio and surfing review Web sites.

Enterprise content management is dead

In heralding CMS Watch's recategorisation of their research streams, Alan Pelz-Sharpe argues that businesses want process-specific solutions, not "a single system to manage all their enterprise content, no matter how wonderful or magical such a system may sound".

(From CMS Watch)

Content revenues to pip print advertising income for FT this year

... although it's not immediately clear if the drop in ad revenue is as much a factor as increase in paid subscriptions etc.

(From Paid Content)

Embed with Google

Ooh, look, Google Maps are serving up embed code now:


View Larger Map

That's the Bridge Bar in Nong Khai.

Admittedly the Yahoo Maps sat pic (same source as Google's) is higher definition at present: http://tinyurl.com/2krfqw

When do you stp the presses?

"Killing print requires acknowledging not just that the old mode is dead but also that the future means less revenue and shrunken staffs."

Thanks to Simon Waldman for the link.

Fade to pay

First time I've seen this as a way of teasing you over the subscription wall. Not unsusceptible to a quick screengrab, though...

Typecast

Associated goes with Atex using InDesign, InCopy ... and, "initially", Notes.
(From Editor & Publisher)

NYT pay wall: a good $10m or short-termism?

Why read other newspapers? For me, it's comment and analysis firstly (and a long way ahead), then perhaps the odd interview, feature, and review. I'll only look for news on another newspaper if it deals with a part of the world not really covered by my principal news sources. So what would get me, or presumably many others, to read the New York Times regularly? Not the news: the comment.

TimesSelect now has 609,000 subscribers. On face value that's pretty impressive. Actually two-thirds of these are free logins for print subscribers. But TimesSelect is still raking in nearly $10m. This article weighs up the balance between 200,00 paying customers and a potentially much larger international audience overall.
(From Follow the Media)

Integrated Newsrooms part 1: The new Telegraph model - Editors Weblog- Analysis

(From Editors Weblog)

Jeff Jarvis's 'big Davos conclusion'

NYT online revenue up 39.2% last year

... accounting for 8.3% of total revenues in 2006, up from 6% in 2005.
(From MediaPost_

NAA marketing convention notices local search

(From SearchEngineWatch)

Google News UK rankings for January 2007

rank	source	score		average score	total stories
1	Guardian Unlimited	533.95		3.46	154
2	BBC News	314.21		2.66	118
3	Times Online	312.15		4.00	78
4	Reuters.uk	301.02		2.81	107
5	Telegraph.co.uk	284.44		3.23	88
6	Independent	236.84		4.38	54
7	Monsters & Critics	167.68		2.62	64
8	Scotsman	164.02		2.78	59
9	ITV.com	135.20		3.38	40
10	Reuters AlertNet	112.57		3.21	35
11	Bloomberg	109.06		1.91	57
12	New York Times	103.25		2.10	49
13	IHT	94.48		1.81	52
14	Los Angeles Times	93.76		2.84	33
15	Playfuls.com	87.36		1.89	46
16	Washington Post	83.62		2.03	41
17	Daily Mail	82.90		10.36	8
18	This is London	75.82		3.29	23
19	Financial Times	68.80		2.64	26
20	Reuters	63.20		1.23	51

'We think of the internet as if it were some kind of journalistic orphan'

In the space of a couple of hours I read this open letter from the editor of the LA Times about these crazy times for the newspaper industry, and came across a letter I wrote in 1999 to Alan in response to the Guardian advertising the post of "internet editor" (a post I thought should not exist). Every issue confronted in the contemporary letter was already very much to the fore over 7 years ago; every positive step cited this month was as obvious back then.

Alan's climate change metaphor holds: the number of deniers is falling. But we're still doing more fretting than acting.

Nice summary of the LA Times piece (which is terribly long) from Jemima Kiss here.