The Magaziner
Jean Snow has been writing about the evolution of magazines on digital platforms for a while, and now he’s launched a new website as a focused outlet for this writing: The Magaziner. If you’re interested in the future of magazines and publishing you will like this.
The Future of the Book.
The Future of the Book, as imagined by IDEO, looks very shiny but doesn’t seem very practical:
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
The Nelson concept tries to help people properly assess a text by providing context and multiple perspectives. However, this doesn’t really solve the challenges of trust and authority in a world of cheap content distribution and evaporating barriers to entry. Just because the reader is provided with commentary, contrary opinions or statistical data doesn’t mean that he’ll have the time or want to critically assess the accuracy and correctness of a given text.
The Coupland concept seems completely pointless to me. There are some decent, if stale ideas in there, but the inscrutable decision to awkwardly tack this onto the social environment of the workspace ruins the whole concept.
The Alice concept, however, i rather like, even if it’s more akin to a videogame or interactive fiction than an actual book. (via)
