One of the topics of discussion at the recent International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin was producing news products for Apple’s iPad. Dan Gillmor has expressed concerns about Apple’s ability to decide what appears on the iTunes store and hence the iPad. I asked Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and a co-founder of Global Voices, for his thoughts on

The second panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium focused on mobile platforms and how journalism is adapting to new devices such as the Apple iPad. The first speaker was Dan Treinish, director of content acquisition & business development, Skiff, a platform to distribute content to mobile devices. Skiff was incubated as a start-up by Hearst about three years ago. The business model is based on the migration of ad

One of the most innovative ideas on how to reimagine print for Apple’s iPad comes from Sweden. The Swedish publisher Bonnier worked with design firm BERG to rethink how traditional magazine content could work on the iPad. The result, Mag+,  is an innovative prototype, that goes beyond just reproducing text on a screen with some video next to it. Explaining the ideas behind the prototype, Bonnier R&D said: The concept

Within minutes of the end of Steve Jobs’ announcement of the Apple iPad, I was getting emails and Twitter messages, asking me for my take on the device. Like so many thousands, I followed the presentation through the live blogs from Engadget and the Nieman Journalism Labs, as well as Twitter. Ahead of today’s unveiling, there was so much hype about the device that you could be forgiven for being

Lists are always popular so the Online Journalism Review has put together the top nine gifts for online journalists. Among the suggestions are a Belkin Tunetalk Stereo to record interviews on your iPod, a GPS unit from TomTom and, my favourite, a Vespa LX150 scooter. The number one gift, says OJR, the Apple iPhone. No doubt, the iPhone is an object of desire, but I am not sure how useful