A thought provoking post on the uses of the ipad at Monday Note. News on the iPad makes a lot of sense, but is part of a rethinking of how newspapers collect, generate and distribute stories. I think it makes sense to think of newspapers as curaters of information and also increasingly as app makers, software developers. And this is interesting:
It’s worth it: unlimited access, a fantastic and intuitive search engine, a recommendation system that learns the way I read thanks to its statistical algorithm, intelligent folders, all sorts of alerts, endless catalogs of topics, rich multimedia contents, a readers community, etc.
Readers community. I don’t think anyone has got that right yet, and there is so much potential there for the newspaper and the reader.
Thanks for the link to Nieman Lab, with fascinating roundup of iPad thoughts and other gems.