It’s always encouraging when we see modern technology being used to preserve important things from the past. A few months back we wrote about Japan’s Samurai Art application, which was used to present a 20 meter long scroll on the iPad. A new collaboration between Mainichi Shimbun and Excite Japan is doing something similar, presenting special editions of the newspaper from all the way back in the Meiji and Taisho eras. These ‘extras’ or Gogai include accounts of important historical events like the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...
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May 19 2011
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Japan’s Asahi Shimbun Goes Digital. Or Does it?
The good people over at Asiajin reported earlier today that The Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest newspapers in the world, will now offer digital subscriptions options. But it doesn’t come cheap. For existing subscribers of the print edition (3800 yen, or approximately $47), the digital content can be accessed for an extra 1000 yen ($12) per month. If you’re not a print subscriber, it will cost 3800 yen for just digital. So clearly this is not a big push to get users to shift to away from paper. And perhaps they ...
Apr 25 2011
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Kompas To Launch World’s First Newspaper on BlackBerry Playbook
Kompas Daily, one of the largest newspaper networks in Indonesia, has now published a weekly digital supplement called Jendela on RIM’s Blackberry Playbook. Jendela contains information on culture and cities in Indonesia in the form of photographs and videos. Kompas also publishes a daily Editor’s Choice that will be of quality equal to its supplement published on the iPad. Having previously published for the iPad, Kompas now becomes the first newspaper published on the Playbook. The content was created using WoodWing’s Tablet Publishing Solution by Serioustec, which made the content creation ...
Nov 29 2010
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iPad-only Content will turn iPad from a Want to a Need
Let’s face it. The iPad is a want and not a need. Whatever the iPad can do, our laptops can execute them too. It is tough to answer whenever my friends question my intention to purchase an iPad. What would an iPad user say? Typical: For videos, web surfing, games and reading, all these on a new shiny Apple gadget. The truth is, many of us are dazzled by the iPad novelty. Egoistic Apple fans, geeks or geeks wannabes want to be the first of their friends to hold the device. Nonetheless, ...
Dec 30 2009
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STATS: 10 Most Retweeted Daily Newspapers
According to a study on the U.S top 100 newspapers by The Bivings Group, it was found that the average newspaper had nearly 18,000 Twitter followers and was tweeted 11 times per day. It was also revealed that all of the 100 publishers were engaged on Twitter and have at least one account. However, not all of them are utilized fully. About 40% didn't have their website linked to their Twitter page. The study also ranked the top 10 most retweeted newspaper on Twitterverse. Evidently, The New York Times clinched ...
Aug 21 2009
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Newspaper: It’s not about Paper or Paperless.
The year 2009 may be the worst year yet for the newspaper industry. According to Newspaper Association of America, print ad spending has plummet down in the first quarter with a 29.7% decline. Online ad spending also suffered with a 13.4% negative change. While we see a transition online, some newspapers companies are still not looking too good. Is news no longer important to us? Of course not, but news publishers need to understand that the way we consume news is ever changing. It is changing right at this second even as news ...
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