Q&A
As Time Magazine’s Design Director, D.W. Pine has brought the 90-year-old news magazine into the iPad age. We spoke to him about the content/design connection and whether magazine covers really matter any more. more
Publishing
Book publishers have been in the business of telling stories to readers for hundreds of years. It’s time to bring this expertise to the world of digital content, writes marketing consultant Nina Lassam. more
Publishing
If you’re a content creator it’s never been easier to create. But what about the poor souls on the other end of the pitch? Submittable’s Michael FitzGerald argues it’s time for techies to shift their… more
The Sparkbeat
Major media outlets around the world – from The Guardian and La Vanguardia in Europe to The Huffington Post and Vanity Fair in the U.S. – have put out e-books this year. Most of these publications are neither repurposed magazine or newspaper… more
Events
Content creators of all stripes came together this week for StoryWorld, an international gathering of transmedia storytellers. Our editor was on the ground in San Francisco and reports that there’s more to this story than you’d think. more
The Sparkbeat
Maybe it’s our creative director’s near-obsessive attention to detail. Maybe it’s the tsunami of tweets our community manager cranks out on a daily basis. Or maybe it all just boils down to Content. Whatever it is, it’s working. And we… more
Events
Sparksheet is headed to San Francisco next week for StoryWorld, the first-ever gathering of artists, brands and media outlets involved with… more
The Sparkbeat
Kindle Fire, Amazon’s brand new tablet, is selling faster than tickets to a Lady Gaga concert. Okay, maybe not that fast. But the figures are still significant; according to website more
Publishing
Just two years old, Social Media Examiner sounds like it’s been around forever. And that’s exactly what founder and CEO Michael Stelzner intended. We spoke to him about the online magazine’s… more
Publishing
Before news aggregators, content curators, and Google’s omnipotent algorithm, the world’s information was sorted by real human beings. In the web’s next phase, argues The IdeaLists’ Karyn Campbell, the… more