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04 May, 2011

A 1994 vision of the iPad

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Knight-Ridder produced this video in 1994 demonstrating what a tablet newspaper might look like.

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27 Mar, 2011

Newseum’s Front Pages on your iPhone

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I’m loving the Newseum’s iPhone app for its popular web (and sidewalk) feature, Today’s Front Pages. It’s fun to flip through the front pages from a few of the cities I’ve lived in and the newsrooms I’ve worked in:

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07 Jul, 2010

PDFs for iBooks

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iBooks can handle PDFs too. Here’s two I’ve put on my phone: the Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency, by Mindy McAdams, and the original 1918 version of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.

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Over a third of the books available through iBooks on your iPhone or iPad are from Project Gutenberg, the Internet’s oldest digital library. Here are a few freebies I’m reading: In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken, 1918. Studying journalism in Baltimore? Then read your Mencken. (Start with Newspaper Days if you’re a newbie.) [...]


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Stacy Spaulding teaches journalism and new media at Towson University.

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