Comments on: The Rebirth of the Magazine http://blog.roundarch.com/2009/12/15/the-rebirth-of-the-magazine/ Web innovation through the advancement of strategy, design and technology Sat, 28 May 2011 17:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jim http://blog.roundarch.com/2009/12/15/the-rebirth-of-the-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 jim Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:41:21 +0000 http://impost.roundarch.com/?p=1363#comment-1541 This will fail horribly. An engaging experience is just not worth the price, or inconvenience of carrying around yet another device, when the internet has it all. People do not interact with content on the internet as they do a magazine. The internet is about search and finding content you are interested in, a magazine is about an overflow of information in one sitting causing you to flip pages until you get to something you like. That experience does not translate well in a digital medium. See this: http://www.slate.com/id/2239557 This will fail horribly. An engaging experience is just not worth the price, or inconvenience of carrying around yet another device, when the internet has it all. People do not interact with content on the internet as they do a magazine. The internet is about search and finding content you are interested in, a magazine is about an overflow of information in one sitting causing you to flip pages until you get to something you like. That experience does not translate well in a digital medium.

See this:
http://www.slate.com/id/2239557

]]> By: g http://blog.roundarch.com/2009/12/15/the-rebirth-of-the-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-1540 g Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:27:59 +0000 http://impost.roundarch.com/?p=1363#comment-1540 I think your analysis is dead on. -g ;) I think your analysis is dead on.
-g ;)

]]> By: Mike http://blog.roundarch.com/2009/12/15/the-rebirth-of-the-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 Mike Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:50:49 +0000 http://impost.roundarch.com/?p=1363#comment-1533 I think you hit the nail on the head with this sentence, Chris, "First off, resist the urge to try & fit a “magazine” into a digital form." I am so amazingly unimpressed by the presentations from these two publishing juggernauts. This isn't 1993; I think it shows a basic lack of vision. It doesn't surprise me that they didn't seem the internet coming, they still can't see it. Dear Time Magazine, I'm looking for a proprietary device that displays the same content as a web browser to help you wrap your head around what the internet is. Let me help you create the Fourth Screen. Sincerely, Mike ------ "Imagine if the swimsuit issue came to life." Thanks for the preview, Terry McDonald, I wish I had a box at home that would display moving pictures like your fancy prototype. I think you hit the nail on the head with this sentence, Chris, “First off, resist the urge to try & fit a “magazine” into a digital form.”

I am so amazingly unimpressed by the presentations from these two publishing juggernauts. This isn’t 1993; I think it shows a basic lack of vision. It doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t seem the internet coming, they still can’t see it.

Dear Time Magazine,

I’m looking for a proprietary device that displays the same content as a web browser to help you wrap your head around what the internet is. Let me help you create the Fourth Screen.

Sincerely, Mike

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“Imagine if the swimsuit issue came to life.”

Thanks for the preview, Terry McDonald, I wish I had a box at home that would display moving pictures like your fancy prototype.

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