Its pretty hard to suggest a new media tool because there is already so many out there. I would design a tool that delivers news. It would be like a digital newspaper delivered daily. On a usb port or memory card that could connect to portable devices. I think this would be a good tool because it would be away reinvent the newspaper. People can get a subscription and just attach it to their phones, i pod or whatever other mobile device they are using. Keeping up with the news would become much easier.
Great Idea ;] I would love to have my favorite newspapers on my bbm so i could read them quickly on the train to work, school etc. Even thou i can go online now, it would be much easier to just have a paper icon and read news every morning :)
ReplyDeleteSounds great. The only bottleneck i can think of is the compatibility it has with other devices. the problem these days is everyone wants you as a customer and make sure their devices will be the only thing that can support whatever product. e.g. apple and their podcasts.
ReplyDeleteI think this is likely to become the next new thing as many of the major newspapers have already begun implementing similar things. For example, I know the New York Times has an app for the iPhone already. Also, with more and more people trading in traditional books for kindles, its a feasible idea as it is in line with consumer preferences. However, to make it more successful-- I think it'd be great if they could somehow make it so that these updates would automatically download onto your device, such as a blackberry or iphone, so that you don't need internet access / service to read it. I know that sometimes I'd love to read on the train but by the time I think of it, we're underground and there's no service so I cant access the information.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea, but I would want to add to it that I would want to get some more of the complete newspaper experience. I took a class last semester where we had to bring the newspaper into every class, and even though I had read it on line before class, there was always at least double the amount of content I wanted to read when I had the paper in my hands. I don't hear a lot of people talk about that, and that should really be what is saving the newspaper industry, but it doesn't seem to matter. Until that class, I didn't know what I was missing.
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