A Visit With Santa Claus
Kris and I took the kids to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on the most decorated street in Bedford (just over the line from Manchester) Friday evening. An amazing night, all the more so due to its entirely non-commercial, neighborly, word of mouth nature; no charge to visit with Santa (even if you want to […]
A pretty vision (in video) for merging print magazines and screen readers
Swedish media company the Bonnier Group has created this video showing a conceptual prototype for displaying a visually rich, digitally interactive magazine presentation on a tablet device. The video really captures the imagination (watch it full screen!) and conceptualizes something well beyond a simple graft of old media formats onto new technology (such as a […]
Kutcher and AOL both see Web content as good business model; lessons for media companies?
As traditional media companies experiment toward a Web business model that would support the traditional high-end journalism they produce, it’s interesting to eyeball two timely examples of companies that think content is a good bet for making money on the Web. One is AOL. The other is Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst. Common threads? Both AOL and […]