• Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In - New York Times
  It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the Internet?
  (tags: idg b2b publishing)

• Cliq offers free downloads for a day to radio listeners | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Guardian Media Group’s Real and Century stations, covering the north-east and north-west of England, Scotland and south Wales, will offer free downloads on Monday, May 5, to listeners via the Cliq service, which users download to their mobiles.
  (tags: radio gmg)
• the revenge of e.e. cummings - The Boston Globe
  WE HAD to LOL when we read how txt-msg lingo is replacing stndrd english in student academic pprs. 1 casualty of da trend is uz of capital letter to start a sentence. kids feel free to lowercase everything. pnktu8n is also dissed. tchaz try to help but it
  (tags: txt mobile)
• eTail dTail Blog: E-Commerce Celebrates 25th Birthday: Sort of…Don’t You Love History?
  I am not sure of all of the facts, but the read below is worth it and as they say: “….baby we have come a long way!!!” — regardless odf the exact date of the start of e-commerce.
  (tags: retail e-commerce)
• Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: What’s your viral loop? Understanding the engine of adoption
  A term I’ve heard tossed around frequently in real life, but not in the blogosphere is the term “viral loop.” In fact, when googling it, I only saw one mention from Jia Shen, a very smart guy:
  (tags: viral marketing)

A bit late, I know - but have just had a read of the posts on the Britannica Blog’s: Are Newspapers Doomed? forum. Impossible to read without this from the Onion in mind (thank you SeumasSeamus).

My thoughts? Nicholas Carr’s points about unbundling are on the money (familiar if you have read Blown To Bits). But, the debate is now pretty much meaningless. We’re on a journey. We can’t go back. We can’t stop. We can’t see the end yet. So we might as well carry on, enjoy the view, and make the most of it.

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OK - so I have a slight nervousness about anyone who includes a quote from themselves in one of their own presentations, and there’s a fair smattering of the ‘usual suspect’ examples (Nike, Dell) here, as well as a some (legitimate) snaffling from Shift Happens, but this deck from David Armano is a pretty neat summary of how brands and consumers increasingly engage online.

The one quote that’s missing is Jeremy Bullmore’s ever more apt: “People build brands as birds build nests, from scraps and straws we chance upon.” [Updated in this essay: Why is a Good Insight like a refrigerator].

On a separate note - are we going to reach a point where school kids will submit powerpoint decks rather than essays? Go on..tell me it’s already happened.

• Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Letting go
  Guardian Egyptian is now available for licensing.Our exclusivity deal with the font designers has come to an end and I found out this week that our wonderful typeface is now being used in a Norweigian news magazine
  (tags: design)