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Digital New York Times PAID subscription:  OK - I'm NOW, just now, ready for this.

• iPad √ check. 
•  iPhone √ check. (The iPhone is my 3G workhorse - I can't live without it work-wise...)

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You get what you pay for...or someone pays for...

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The light tablets are all ready for PRIME TIME, sez I.  Whether it is an iPad, a Samsung big pocket size or Motorola Xoom, whatever, this is truely the year of tablet content delivery.  Baby boomers are doing it.  Your grandmother might even be doing it. 

Ever since I saw tablet sized readers via some part of the Star Trek franchise, I was hoping. I think I can finally let go of my HandSpring Visor component system jones, as the tablets are really doing it for me.

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Photos:  by Deb, Mohan and his Samsung pocket tablet this January, 2011.

Shoop, shoop, shoop, finger touch:
1) Light, agile tablet: It's less wieldy than flipping through all that newsprint on Sundays.

2) Cleaner too! No newsprint inky fingers. Pecan rolls sticky fingers with breakfast are another story.

Reasonable price - high end subsidies:
3) The Times is a fairly expensive paper for good reason, to pay for the level of in-depth trained journalism.  (Fox News arguements aside.) This English major never ceases to enjoy the wonderful quality of writing in this paper.

4) Daily paper subscriptions, on one count, are .99 a month rising to 8.99 a week for digital for iPad and smartphone. There are other deals out there.

5) Subsidies: Depending on who you are and what you do, Lincoln and other companies courting you might subsidize your subscription for one year. Sounds like a smart move to me.  You get what you pay for, or what someone out there pays for.

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 Your grandmother might even be doing it. 

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Rich content:
6) Movies, slide shows, audio narration, citizen journalism are all value adds in the digital platforms. I love hearing about fashion on the street from the cool guy with a New York Accent:

7) Personalization & customization: I agree it is cool, not creepy. I'm more ready for it now in 2011. In 2010, it was still a bit creepy.

Ann Arbor News R.I.P. - AnnArbor.com is still finding its way.  I just discontinued my New York Times Sunday only paper version this past January.  (The soy ink based papers get recycled in my garden.)  The guy on the phone was really good about it and let me know what was in the works for the iPad.

Via iPad, I look forward to my daily read every day, and we have, in this household, one subsidized subscription and one that I've already paid for.  For quality journalism, I'm glad to do it.   I want it.  It backs up my twitter, Facebook, citizen journalism mania and restores balance to the force.  

--Deb

RevelnCoaches Mar 10, 2:12pm via Twitter for iPad

“@RevelnConsults: It's about authenticity. Be real. #b2bexpo Social Media Panel @AstralRoad1”. #SMCC1

dnrevel Mar 10, 4:11pm via Twitter for iPad

Rich Fahle Formerly of Borders. #b2bexpo @AstralRoad1” #SMCC1 video-commerce.org Also E-books, disruption. Sourcebooks is small & nimble.

3. My business persona is @RevelnConsults.   I use the @RevelnConsults feed on my Reveln Consulting Wordpress website.   RC had a bit to say about my video experience with @AstralRoad1 's presentation yesterday.  I was so glad I stayed & attended Rich's late afternoon session.  It was very worthwhile!

RevelnConsults 11:04am via Facebook

This YouTube video hits 4 EMERGING TRENDS right on the nose: Custom experience, integration, video and YouTube... http://fb.me/IK909uf8

 

RevelnConsults Mar 10, 4:19pm via Twitter for iPad

Video is premium delivery for authenticity. SEO loves video. Tell your story, naturally. 65% recall rate. #b2bexpo @AstralRoad1 #SMCC1

Note the different sources I use for my tweeting above, Facebook and my iPad.   I'm actually tweeting this blog post from Facebook and integrating it onto my front page website at the same time.

4.  My special niche for my business consulting is Change Management.  Therefore I tweet from @ChangeTools.   Ron is a business partner who tweets from @ChangeResults.    I like his title better.  Too bad I can't steal it.  :-)

changetools Deb, Ron

USING MULTIPLE TWITTER accounts:

I will sometimes retweet myself, attempting to do it at different times, per @CharlieCurve's good recommendations.  I've posted his video below about using multiple twitter accounts well.  Lesson learned!!  Charlie's videos are a GREAT example of how to use video well!

And here's @CharlieCurve's video on using multiple twitter accounts:  

Excerpted:  

Posterous (considered by some to be Tumblr’s biggest rival) is finally allowing users to create pages to accompany their blogs.   Unlike Tumblr however, Posterous is enabling fans of the service to add a few extra features to pages that may appeal to keep-it-simple bloggers, not to mention spammers as well.

We decided to use the same great editor that you are already using for posts. This means you can edit rich text, upload any media, and add and edit photo galleries. All of the cool features that we’ve created for posts—like link auto-expansion and syntax highlighting—come along for the ride with pages. [...]

We allow you to create a page that redirects to a static URL. You may want to do this if you want to add a link to one of your social networks, or to a page tTo [sic] do this, simply click on the “Page Options” tab, and add a URL where it says “Redirect to:”. When your visitors click on a link to a redirect page, they will be redirected to the URL you specified. (Official Posterous Blog)

Although it’s great to see Posterous finally add pages (which is considered a standard feature in Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr), the page redirect feature is potentially dangerous as one could redirect a curious user towards a site filled with malware.

Perhaps Posterous could consider giving users about to be redirected a link to the actual site (similar to how Facebook warns users who are about to be redirected towards another site).

via blogherald.com   by Darnell Clayton

Excerpted: Dubbed “the Flipper” by its designers, the Pearl River Necklace bridge concept features the different sides of the road separating and twisting around each other to meet up on the opposite side.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing the concept become a reality. NL Architects designed the bridge as part of a competition, but lost – possibly because the switchover technically took place in the wrong location.

History of right and left road travel is also in this post.  For example:

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• The grooves of a well-preserved track leading to a Roman quarry near Swindon, England, suggests that Romans drove on the left.
  
• It has been theorized that riders on horseback generally rode on the left so they could hold their reigns with their left and keep their dominant hand free to offer a greeting to passing riders or to defend themselves with a sword.

• In the late 1700s in the U.S. teamsters driving large freight wagons pulled by several teams of horses were positioned on the left rear horse so they could hold the whip with their right. To ensure the clearance of the wheels of oncoming wagons they preferred that wagons pass them on the left where they had a better view.
  

• [The U.S. teamsters experience] ...prompted a shift from left to right-hand traffic in many countries. So much so that today around two thirds of the world’s people live in right-hand drive countries.

Additional bridge designs featured via gizmag.com