One of the research papers presented at ISOJ by Hsiang Iris Chyi and Monica Chadha, University of Texas at Austin looked at how people were getting their news on new devices (paper in PDF). The researchers suggested the idea of newsfulnews as a way of measuring the likelihood of a multi-purpose device being used for news, based on the number who use a device for news compared to total number of

John Kilpatrick, vice president of design for The Daily, provided an inside look into the new iPad app at the ISOJ. The Daily is a custom application with a custom content management system that was built from the ground up for product. The idea is to be able to create custom experiences everyday, exploring what works and what doesn’t work, he said. Kilpatrick explained that the experience of news on a

Given the international launch of the iPad, I thought I would reflect on some of the apps that suggest the power and impact of this device. I have had an iPad for a few weeks.  My initial impressions were that it was an interesting device but I was unconvinced as to its purpose. Image by Veronica Belmont via Flickr Now that I have it for some time, and have customised

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

Let’s call her a member of the touch generation – a generation who will grow up in a world where the way to interact with technology is not the keyboard, but the touchscreen. This video of Todd Lappin’s 2.5 year-old daughter using an iPad for the first time is remarkable in illustrating how we are conditioned by the interfaces of our technology

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