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"The latest report from web usability guru Jakob Nielsen is about iPad usability. It's the second such report from Nielsen Norman Group and it features in-depth analysis about how people are using iPads. As is usual with Nielsen reports, it also lustily lists all the design flaws that his users found - such as touchable areas that are too small, low discoverability and "swipe ambiguity.""

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"The most exciting is a free month of live, out-of-market streaming game telecasts on the iPad and iPhone, sponsored by Volvo. This is basically a free trial of the MLB.TV service that provides these live game streams year-round."

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"The iPad is a wonderful device for couches and beds. It’s been less great for getting work done — particularly the kind of app-hopping work that many journalists do. The primary reason is that the iPad 1 didn’t have enough RAM to consistently keep several web pages open at the same time. If you’re assembling writing a deadline story by shuffling between something in Gmail, four open webpages, plus the web entry of your CMS, the iPad’s memory would run out and force you to reload those pages — sometimes meaning you’d lose the work in progress on that CMS page."

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This is an old trick for the iPad that I wasn't aware of until today. Thanks Google!

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"In an informal breakfast news test, this morning I sat in bed with my coffee and peanut butter toast and browsed both The Daily and Flipboard. OK, it was also an excuse to lounge about in bed for an extra hour! But to the point: in both content and user interface, Flipboard served up most of the articles that I ended up consuming this morning. If it had been a paper product, I'd have flicked through The Daily in about 5-10 minutes and discarded the scrunched up newspaper at the foot of my bed."

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"An official introduction to The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, is expected on Jan. 19, possibly at an event with Apple’s Steve Jobs.

But peeking inside the source code of its recently-launched companion website, TheDaily.com, I came across the image below, which appears to be a house ad for the new app."

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Apple, of course, announced that its iBookstore would cater to books, but it seems that periodicals are going to have to make their own arrangements.

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I love how everyone is predicting what iPad users will be like when there are no iPad users yet. Two more days!

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"The service may persuade readers to buy more magazines at a time when industrywide print circulation is falling. Time Inc. now charges $4.99 for each digital issue of the weekly Time magazine on iPad, 4 cents more than the print version. Newsweek, publis

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The Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has some awesome conferences coming up. Unfortunately for a lot of college media types, they're smack in the middle of the end of the semester. Aggh!

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Because, Khoi Vinh says, they’re “bloated [and] user-unfriendly” and because they are largely a result of a “tired pattern of mass-media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms, without really understanding the platforms at all.”

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"We need to take a careful look at consumer behavior and get a deeper understanding of how, when and where consumers prefer to consume content -- and how this will evolve over time. Before we jump into development, here are some considerations about the p

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"The Washington Post has an iPad app, and it's much better than the iPhone program I panned in March.

That's good, inasmuch as I work here and want my employer to do well.

But the Post app -- coming months after the iPad debuts of such other newspapers

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"The historical media verticals of radio, television, print and Web evaporate inside the frame of an iPad — it’s all just content, backlighted and inviting, waiting for the swipe of a finger. Long-form narrative and news has found a reliable wing man in t

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