The New Face of News?

Design and content the never ending battle. This is something I found on the Nieman Journalism Lab website.   Scroll, a new editor that aims to de-templatize news design. The tool, created by soon-to-be-serialentrepreneursCody Brown and Kate Ray, wants to take the basic design approach of print — start with a totally blank page, add elements — [...]

Design or Content or Both?

The never-ending battle in the content creation industry is  whether it is the design that matters or the content that matters or a bit of both. Truth be told some days I think that content is king and others I am sold that it is the design that is going to pull people through and to the content. Today [...]

Are we Engaging Education or Coasting?

There is no question the way we access information is changing at break neck speed. Are our education professionals adapting to the change that is taking place with information exchange? I am sorry to say NO! All too much time is spent digging through old, often outdated and inappropriate text books that do not apply [...]

Tech Forward?

One of the greatest challenges faced by old media today is how to translate online/electronic/web offerings into something that is not a simple electronic translation of the often paper of analog intended product. No surprise the journalists, content creators, are not the people to look to. And designers might also be caught in the hype [...]

Content is king!

Last night on Nightline I had a great conversation about content syndication! I am not talking RSS but how you can get content that is market ready into the market! Imagine that academic paper that can be reformatted and become a valuable business piece. How does this effect you? Are you a person who writes? [...]

du CEO Osman Sultan where are we going?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Osman Sultan, the ceo of du int he UAE, talk about his vision of how a content delivery provider can and will play a role in the future of Arab media. The real issues comes down to what is media today and what will media be [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world. And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools? I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications. My advice to students, anyone really, [...]