“ As soon as something becomes digital, all friction is removed from making copies. That means all of today’s media – books, magazines, newspapers, music, television and movies – can be instantly and effortlessly duplicated. The web was built on that principle and continues to thrive when that principle is amplified. When content on the web is searchable, indexable, translatable, transcludable, quotable, or copy-and-pastable it matches an expectation web users have had for decades. Mess with that, and you fundamentally break the user experience.
I think the iPad is a fantastic amplifier of web-native content. It helps me aggregate and attenuate the content I’m interested in through feeds and shared content from my social networks. It makes me a better reader by reformatting and re-presenting that content in more digestible ways. The irony isn’t lost here: I read far more content from sources – mainstream or not – than I did before buying that device. But not one mainstream producer of content has helped me do that. The innovation has come from other sources: Twitter, Feeder, Instapaper, LongForm.org, Apture, and more.
In fact, the mainstream sources seem determined to do the opposite.” — Jeffrey Veen in response to Jeffrey Zeldman
I think the iPad is a fantastic amplifier of web-native content. It helps me aggregate and attenuate the content I’m interested in through feeds and shared content from my social networks. It makes me a better reader by reformatting and re-presenting that content in more digestible ways. The irony isn’t lost here: I read far more content from sources – mainstream or not – than I did before buying that device. But not one mainstream producer of content has helped me do that. The innovation has come from other sources: Twitter, Feeder, Instapaper, LongForm.org, Apture, and more.
In fact, the mainstream sources seem determined to do the opposite.” — Jeffrey Veen in response to Jeffrey Zeldman
