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Long form, different screen

This showed up on today’s twitterstream from Our Man in Tokyo CraigMod: A website tailor-made for fans of long-form journalism who happen to be iPad/Phone savvy.

Longform.org is a linksite dedicated to the joys of the WAY long article — you know, those pieces that make journalism students long for the New Yorker glory days o’ [...]

Two Days, One Issue

This just in from some of the folks who brought you Fray and JPG magazines, back in the day — The 48 Hour Magazine — a full print magazine completed from submissions to print in one calendar weekend.

The team includes web/print activist/gadfly Derek Powazek and the fresh-off-flickr Heather Champ Powaek, among others. They’ll be wrangling [...]

Footnotes. Endnotes. Touchnotes?

Great discussion today from the folks over at the O’Reilly blogs regarding information design in the wonderful world of books. Various members of the O’Reilly team chime in on possibilities for integrating helpful annotations (end/footnotes, dictionary capabilities, weblinks) into iPad/ereader space.

Editor Russell Jones makes a great point on bodies of text  in the web-enabled world:

There’s [...]