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TBD lives up to its mushy ambition.

One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting for. Or it’s just another slick, content thief that fails to deliver on a fresh promise. At first flip, Flipboard is stunning (you have to download the app; the website is a [...]

In advance of today’s Tabula Rasa DC event — WeMedia’s hyper-interactive discussion about how the iPad, and other tablet devices, will re-shape our media and technology landscape — I asked some uber-smart people to share their impressions and insights on the world post-iPad.  Several new essays will be released in the coming days/weeks, but for [...]

Download the Oh!magination app for free when you attend Tabula Rasa DC on june 14.

Google’s interest in saving newspapers is all about Google. Keep your friends close and frenemies closer.

Join connoisseurs of creativity for an iPad tasting from 1-4:30 pm, June 14 at Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va.

This is one of those moments – an important shift in digital culture that will be old news and obvious to everyone a few years from now.

Just as the iPad stirs the imagination (at least in the U.S.) about content on the screen, comes technology that makes content jump off it. Samsung’s W960 mobile phone, released in South Korea in March, delivers 3-D video content that can be viewed without special glasses and can be manipulated by turning and twisting the [...]

Charlton Heston channels Moses. Steve Jobs assumes a higher authority. Crazy guys throw down an iPad at batting practice. All this and more in The Throwdown Video, a preview of Tabula Rasa. Check it out on the program page and on YouTube.

I am excited to announce the launch of a new project that we are calling WeThink. What is it? WeThink is a conversation about innovation and the future — an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing. What’s the big deal? If you follow our work [...]

Invitation to talk from Ros Atkins of BBC’s World Have Your Say show.

Game Changer Demand Media’s Byron Reese describes the different thinking about content and the process of creating content.

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown. Our enthusiasm [...]

New technology spawns new ways to tell stories. That’s the exciting part of Apple’s new tablet, an old idea whose time has apparently come. Now comes the hard part: creating the content and designing the experience for the next wave of consumer devices that deliver our stories. We’re about to discover whether incumbent publishers and [...]

We couldn’t get to Hyderabad for this year’s group hug of the world’s newspaper publishers, but it sounds like the old boys are getting feisty in their dotage. Forced once to postpone because of bad economics and waning interest, the reconvened World Newspaper Congress, organized by the merged World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, launched [...]