(This is a copy of my weekly column for newspapers and print media.) By Jeremy Wagstaff Waiting to board a train in London, knowing my smartphone battery was flat, and that the UK trains are too cramped to open a laptop on, I bought myself a magazine or two. It was like a trip down… Read More »
I was reading The Wall Street Journal in a cab on a BlackBerry just now and I realised what’s wrong with print media. It still hasn’t got that not everything is going to be read in a newspaper. See this story about Gordon Brown. It might look good as the main story on the… Read More »
Probably not very new this, but I love it as a way to get a sense of how the traditional print media are presenting the day’s news around the world: Newseum “Today’s Front Pages” is an online presentation of one of the Newseum’s most popular exhibits. Every morning, more than 300 newspapers from around the… Read More »
Just got back from a ‘wake’ for the Far Eastern Economic Review, which, after 58 years, went monthly last October under the ownership of my employer, Dow Jones. I won’t get into the politics of that decision, but it did occur to me, listening to some eminent former FEER personnel talking this evening, that three… Read More »
A printer the size of a mouse that can print on anything? Sounds too good to be true? Well, er, it is — for now. But it could happen as soon as some manufacturers start putting together PrintDreams’ technology. This is what it should look like: (Not the pen, silly.) PrintBrush “has… Read More »