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Like making old things new again. Enjoy working on a far away big tree/cow farm vs inner city digital stuff and with the NBN that's changing, creative lifestyles and digital content businesses. I have 4 degrees in psychology, media, literature, librarianship, management and business including a business PhD that explored how tech created opportunities in the music sector (as a lead indicator to other content sectors). Am fascinated by how people use digital stuff and emerging uses. Slow living, reject unreal or fast lifestyles, I like to know all about what I eat. Maintaining a professional hatred and boycott of Farcebook. Confused about whether to write in 1st or 3rd person on this site. Love animals and have always had them around - cows, horses, chooks, cats, dogs, sheep, goats, camels, budgies. Met lots of snakes too. Enjoy aesthetic immersion and favourite era is 1940-1959. Music obsessive not impartial to late nights watching bands. blah blah blah

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Reading magazines on tablets

While I'm no fan of Sports Illustrated, this video shows how magazines will work in the future.  It doesn't go far enough into the user generated content angle, only suggesting that readers may wish to share articles with friends via Lamebook or play interactive games while watching sports on tv (caveat - I've never understood the game market).  I think there'll need to be more potential in it than that for users to participate/comment etc.  But small steps and these things take time and they don't want to overwhelm the populous with too much too soon etc etc...

Time Inc are one of 5 companies (+ Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp) who, it seems with Microsoft, are bringing out their own tablet device to compete with Apple and Amazon (See article titled 'Major Print Publishers Gang Up to Pre-Empt Apple, Already Make Mistakes' in News I read section above).  I also suspect the pricing will be 'utility-like'. That is, consumers will feel they are paying by subscription for the device, and then a small micropayment for the content (eg. $2 for Sports illustrated for a month, $5 to get the Australian newspaper for a month etc. + $30 per month for the device).


So this is what it will look like:


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