Let's Call It RSS Feeds Meet the HTML5
Graphic Interface
Wingman Editor in Chief
Which IS Customizable, with clickable
stylesheets.
A foot looking for a comfortable shoe.
This One works for Me and points to the value
of customization.
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The big push in Tablets Newspaper apps is using
the "Magazine" template,
which is very wrong.
This gives us web newspaper sites that look like this:
Which IS Customizable, with clickable
stylesheets.
A foot looking for a comfortable shoe.
This One works for Me and points to the value
of customization.
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But Compare the newsies to a
Real Magazine:
The
Sports Illustrated Snapshot
Chrome App
Is Beautiful and works
because that is what the format
is geared toward.
SI Photo of the Day Snap
And You Can
Vote for Photo of the Day
in The SI Snapshot Chrome App.
This really works for Magzines but it's pretty hard to shoehorn newspapers into the Flipbook paradigm.
Something in between and new would serve them better. But what is the silver-bullet question.
Real Magazine:
The
Sports Illustrated Snapshot
Chrome App
Is Beautiful and works
because that is what the format
is geared toward.
SI Photo of the Day Snap
And You Can
Vote for Photo of the Day
in The SI Snapshot Chrome App.
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------------------This really works for Magzines but it's pretty hard to shoehorn newspapers into the Flipbook paradigm.
Something in between and new would serve them better. But what is the silver-bullet question.
The take away, newspapers online are having an
Identity Crisis and until That is resolved, newspapers will continue to slide.