Magazine chief: iPad users - prepare to be retrained

By tim, on April 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The Guardian has an interview with Future Chief Executive Stevie Spring. Future is a major magazine publisher based in the UK. I was interested to hear how she believes the iPad could change the industry:

We’ve had a whole decade of people paying, believing that if they paid for the pipes they got the poetry

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April 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: apple, internet, multimedia | 2 comments

What next for the BBC and its world-beating website?

By tim, on March 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The UK’s public broadcasting company the BBC is in the spotlight, thanks to a new strategy review and ensuing discussion. I have only just read it, because of other work, but I think it is significant. The BBC’s Director-General Mark Thompson says:

Clearly the BBC needs the space to evolve as audiences and technologies develop,

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March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: bbc, internet, media | 8 comments