With all the wild ups and downs of the market, I somehow miss the old time experience of walking by a kiosk and checking the frontpages of the papers to assess the mood of the world.
And then I came across this virtual kiosk, where you can see the front pages of newspapers in Spain and [...]

[Jeff Bezos via Flickr]
Great quote from a Portfolio.com interview with Jeff Bezos discussing one of the reasons why the Kindle is so successful:
The No. 1 feature is that it disappears. When you’re in the middle of reading, you don’t notice the ink or the glue or the stitching or the paper—all of that disappears, and [...]

This is just silly… I often bump into a New York Times article that is not available without the free registration… for example, this one on Kerry and Edwards that appeared today…  I then have to right-click on firefox and do a Google search on the first line of the text.. to then find an [...]

You know it is that Holiday time of the year when in seven days you get seven shopping catalogs in your mail…
I have started testing Catalogchoice, and it might be just what I needed: a slick, easy way to stop receiving unwanted catalogs. Setting up a free account is a breeze, and the ajax menus [...]

Via the Guardian:
More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003.
“The Economist Historical Archive is more than a database - it is a remarkable record of the most significant world events over the past 160 years through the unbiased, [...]

Via Guardian Unlimited:
For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Swedens Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The worlds oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace. The newspaper, founded in 1645 by Swedens Queen Kristina, became a Web-only publication on Jan. 1. Its a fate, [...]

Joel Martinsen at Danwei has an interesting post on a new on-demand publishing service in China called Inker.
With the rise of digital self-expression and low-cost printing, it is exciting to see the emergence of overseas equivalents to Lulu, Xlibris or PublishAmerica .
Still, this being China there are obviously still many restrictions when it comes [...]

Does anyone these days still subscribe to Newsletters?
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The NY Times has announced a new software-based reader in partnership with Microsoft.
As newspapers struggle to adapt to the online environment, this announcement should be seen as a first step towards new ways of making newspapers relevant.
Still, at this stage both the Windows reader and the portable gadgets that will carry this software feel like [...]

Interesting article from the FT.com on how old media might increase its share of online ads:
Veronis Suhler will report on Tuesday in its annual comprehensive study of the media business that this year, of the $22bn expected to be spent on online and mobile advertising in the US, traditional media groups’ share is forecast [...]