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I’m excited about the prospect of being able to read the newspaper on something like an iPad. It just seems like such an obvious “next step” in periodical publishing. According to Gawker The New York Times is having an internal war to determine which department will “own” the iPad edition, and the print division is “afraid people will cancel the print paper if they can get the same thing on their iPad”. Well of course I’d cancel my print edition! Why would I want both? But it’s not like every one of their subscribers is going to buy an iPad, not to mention all the people (like me) who don’t subscribe now but might for the right price, and “$20 to $30 per month” would not be the right price.

It’s not surprising, but unfortunate, that publication companies seem to think that the product they’re selling is the paper, not the reporting.

Sadly: “But both versions of the Kindle are missing what makes print newspapers such a perfect delivery vehicle for news: graphic design.” Hopefully they can improve on this in time.

As I’ve argued before, I think newspapers could go far on the Kindle (and other such devices). There are some good guidelines here for design, but I wonder how they’d change between the Kindle and the DX? With the DX you can more closely copy the print layout. Would that be better?

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The palpable unease in reporting this story is interesting. It’s okay for the Daily Show to make fun of the news at home, but everyone’s a little too nervous that they’re going to upset anyone over there. The troops are real people with senses of humor, t

Intriguing idea. It occurs to me that Google could use OpenID to make sure the people are who they say they are.

Great news. Allows the public to use footage of debates without having to get permission from CNN.

People today are about as aware of current affairs as they were 20 years ago. Viewers of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report were the most knowledgeable.

A few weeks ago the Associated Press decided to simply not run any stories about Paris Hilton for a week and see if anyone would notice her absence.

I don’t totally agree here. Entertainment news is pretty important to our culture, as are sports, but yeah, I’d love to see real stories.

Great ideas here. It’d be neat to be able to, say, search a map for my address and see all the news happening near home.

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