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iFive: Twitter And Bin Laden, Huge Facebook Income, 10 Million Credit Cards Says Sony, MIT Earns Donation, Time iPad Apps Freed

It's a fresh week, so get a fresh start on the early news by reading iFive--our summary:READ»

Nomad Is Coming to Town

Many are trying to crack the value proposition for today's generation of savvy consumers adept at googling and navigating the ocean of news at their disposal. In this regard a significant new venture has found its way to market. Nomad Editions, headed up by founder Mark Edmiston, is delivering a bevy of e-magazines.READ»

Is Print Part of Your Future?

Everyone knows newspapers, magazines, and books are going through a game change. Digitization is making it possible for them to be delivered in new ways (phones, eReaders, social media, etc). New business models are coming and going ...READ»

Latest Victim of the Internet: The Oxford English Dictionary

That's right, Oxford University Press is strongly considering going online-only for the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Just because something's inevitable doesn't mean it's not a little bit sad.READ»

Sony OLED Screen Thin Enough to Wind Up Around a Pencil

Sony's just revealed an OLED screen that's so astonishingly flexible it can be rolled tightly around a tube the size of a pencil. All of your sci-fi-inspired bendy screen next-gen computer dreams just came true.The technology hinges ...READ»

Google CEO's Surprising Comment of the Day: Newspapers Will Thrive

When reading about developments in the ailing printed news industry, we tend to hear arguments presented from the old media side of the fence. Now Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has stepped up, and he thinks the industry will survive, ...READ»

Analyst: Chatty Facebookers Prefer Broadcast News, Staid Googlers Prefer Print

More good news for Ron Burgundy. Analysis of onwards Web site visits from Facebook and Google to news services reveals Facebookers prefer broadcast media sources, while Google sends people to print media. But why? The data's ...READ»

Print Is Dead, Long Live Print: Digital Magazines Have Publishers in a Spin

Time Inc, Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media and Meredith magazine publishers have banded together to promote their print editions in a "power of print" ad campaign. But let's do the Time Warp again, and remember digital mags really ...READ»

What Killed I.D. Magazine?

The magazine's demise is a good example of why big challenges require full attention--and not half-measures.READ»

Should Colleges Subsidize Print News, Or Switch to Kindle?

This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»

Attention Nonprofits! It (Still) Pays to Advertise

The 2008 Report on Nonprofit Marketing (The State of Nonprofit Marketing: A Report On Priorities, Spending, Measurement, and The Challenges Ahead) produced jointly by the American Marketing Association and Lipman Hearne, surveyed leading nonprofit organizations. The number one finding of the report indicates that building awareness is overwhelmingly the leading priority, regardless of size or subsector. Smart nonprofit organizations know that they need to advertise, in both good times and bad. READ»

Do Not Underestimate the Selling Power of a Well Designed Website

As time and attention spans shrink - the need to provide quick and relevant information increases. There is both art and science in the design and creation of what may be the most powerful sales asset of your business. READ»

Time, Inc's Former Editor on the Future of the Magazine

Over the last three decades Jim Gaines has served as editor in chief of Time, Life and People magazines, as well as the corporate editor of Time, Inc. Today, August 11, is his sixty-second birthday--but unlike many of the print ...READ»

Why the Hell Do We Need Dan Abrams' "Mediaite"?

"It's my hope that you will see this as a unique property that will quickly become the must-read for anyone interested in the media, the business of it and the personalities behind it." So begins the "Note from Dan Abrams," a kind ...READ»

News Flash From the Future: What Will Journalism Look Like?

With newspapers’ traditional business model in free fall, the top media minds at global design firm IDEO (designer of the Apple mouse, consultant to Fortune 500 companies) were asked to imagine: How will we get our news after the traditional model falls apart? Here's their answer.READ»

Can Great Design Save Print?

Came across this insightful presentation from European newspaper designer Jacek Utko. He's doing amazing stuff and taking a fresh look at an old media. If you love print it's worth a ...READ»

Blurb's $30 Million Sold Proves Print Still Rocks

Eileen Gittins runs Blurb, a profitable print-on-demand startup that sold $30 million worth of books last year.READ»

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Google & the Future of Newspapers

"The White House has gone Googley," says "Google expert" Stephen Arnold. And the world of print is following close behind. Conference organizers say their panels of experts, insiders and competitors will help ...READ»