WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

“No party can succeed in today’s world unless it’s also about wealth creation.”

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“Having a valet unpack your suitcase is very odd,” he says, shaking his head as if he didn’t enjoy the cosseting. “Old Labour used to talk about the working class and upper class, but staying with the royal family made me realise I’m definitely middle class.”

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“One of my views in politics is don’t make enemies deliberately because you end up making so many accidentally,” he muses.

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He is clear that Brown didn’t have the psychological equipment, or the smile, for the job. “He was never going to be user-friendly in the way that modern politics demands, but he could have won the election as a big, serious person.” Blair’s great fear is that the new Labour project died with his leadership.

Tony Blair: Exile from main street

Three years after he quit No 10, has the dust settled for Tony Blair? He talks candidly with Lesley White about Brown, Bush, Iraq and the world he has left behind

A brilliant interview, in today Sunday Times Magazine, worth to subscribe to all the pay walls of the world.

(Pictures by Harry Borden)

The new Diario de S. Paulo.

A newspaper that looks and feels like a quality daily-news-magazine.

A newspaper that needs to be like a daily Veja

With sections like VIVA that in the first survey of readers will be the most read one of the new Diario de S. Paulo.

Sophisticated, well designed and compelling.

A new kind of young newspaper for new and young readers.

You know…

It will not fly.

It’s a flop.

It’s just crap!

I am returning my iPad.

Well, the last handbook from the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA) has good news for us the tablet fans.

We are not a minority.

We are not crazy.

We are not alone.

We are not the exception.

We were right!

Almost 60% of the US consumers plan to buy a tablet within the next 3 years.

Not only iPads but just tablets.

The mobile media revolution is over us.

Another reason not to miss the INMA/NIEMAN/INNOVATION Harvard Tablet Summit.

Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010.

A Worldwide Summit to learn, master and share new ideas.

Be there!

The Times of London has every Wednesday a Fashion section that includes “real people” as models.

The same Essential’s magazine idea but in a newspaper.

Street fashion.

Real people.

Readers as models.

First class pictures.

Great style production.

A sure winner.

The Guardian reports:

IPC Media’s Essentials will no longer feature models or celebrities on its front cover after a survey of readers suggested they preferred to see “real women”.

Essentials was the biggest climber among the mainstream women’s monthlies in the first half of this year, with an average circulation of 115,432.

Great idea.

Good marketing.

Excellent covers.

Did He tell you?

Hawking promoting his new book.

And The Times giving him free publicity.

Oh, God!

First, The Wall Street Journal confronted The New York Times.

So today Sulzberger launched his first main assault to Murdoch in his own British market.

With Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond, a 6,00- word story written by Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Graham Bowley, three big guns of The New York Times, Sulzberger tries to destroy the reputation (?) not of the News of the World, the Sunday gossip tabloid of News Corporation, but the reputation of Rupert Murdoch as owner of this popular paper.

The war is here.

My only question is this:

Why British newspapers, magazines, radio, television, blogs… didn’t cover the story in such a powerful way?

The New York Times is again the “solo” paper producing first class real investigative reporting.

A lesson hard to learn by other more complacent rivals.

(Picture by Lewis Whyld/Getty Images)

Apple shares were up all day, from $247 at the opening of the market to $250 before the beginning of the Special Event.

At the end of the conference, the shares were around $249.

So, no big news, no big changes.

Some “instant analysis”:

Jeff Jarwis on Twitter: “Just ordered my Apple TV. $99. What the hell.”

Philip Elmer-DeWitt (FORTUNE): “No Beatles. No Apple-branded TV set. No updated iPhone 4. But all-in-all, a solid fall product launch with more news to chew on than we’ve seen since 2007, when the iPod touch first appeared.”

Marco Tabini (PC WORLD): “Apple didn’t just roll out new products during its Wednesday press event; it also rattled off some impressive statistics about its mobile, music, and retail efforts.”

Chris Cameron (READWRITEWEB): “Wow! That sure was a lot from Apple. Those new iPods look pretty slick, especially the new square Nanos that look like a watch-face (some one please make a watch strap accessory!). Ping and iTunes 10 should be fun to play around with, and I don’t know about the rest of you but that $99 Apple TV looks very enticing. Oh yeah, and iOS 4.1 looks cool too – the HDR photos is sure to excite the photo bugs out there.”

Dylan F. Tweney (WIRED): “In a sign that its television “hobby” has turned into serious business, Apple announced an aggressively-priced new set-top box that takes aim at the heart of the cable TV and DVD rental industries.”

Peter Kafka (ALL THINGS DIGITAL): “Apple has been working on an iTunes update that’s all about social, not streaming. But rather than do the obvious thing — create a system that links up with existing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace — Steve Jobs has gone ahead and created yet another social network, one designed expressly for iTunes users.”

Jason D. O’Grady (ZDNET): “Apple held its highly-anticipated press event today, and for the first time in recent memory, streamed it live via the Web. Cult of Mac reports that Apple decided to stream the event to test its new new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, slated to go into full operation later this year. (The $1 billion data center is one of the largest ever built).”

And the final words from Steve Jobs (APPLE): “Thank you for coming. I hope you’re as excited about this stuff as we are … and we’ll see you soon.”

A few minutes ago Steve Jobs presented the latest news from Apple.

In a peculiar live stream video conference only available to Mac users, the iGod announced:

More Apple stores.

Some days, over 1 million people visit Apple’s retail shops.

Stores are holding 80,000 one-to-one sessions per week.

Over 6.5 billion apps downloaded. Or 200 apps every second.

Around 250,000 apps available, including 25,000 iPad apps.

iOS 4.1 being introduced today.

iOS 4.1 will be available next week via iTunes as a free download.

OS 4.2 is coming out in November as a free update for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

It brings everything to iPad, multi-tasking, game center, wireless printing.

Apple sold 275 million iPods.

Shows the first, second and third generation shuffles.

Small and wearable, easy to use buttons, playlists, genius mixes, VoiceOver, 15 hours of music. 5 colors. $49

$149 in 8GB version $179 in 16GB version

They have volume buttons, VoiceOVer, FM radio, Nike+, 24 hour battery playback

New iPod touch: Retina Display; 326 ppi 24-bit color, LED backlit

With Apple A4 chip, 3-axis Gyro, iOS 4.1 Game Center, Front Facing camera and FaceTIm.

Plus rear camera as well with HD recording. 40 hours of playback

3 models: 8GB for $329, 32GB for $299, and a 64GB for $399

New iTunes logo

Customers have downloaded over 11.7 billion songs

Over 450 million TV episodes, 100 million movies downloaded, 35 million books and over 160 million accounts worldwid.

New feature: PING, a social network for music.

Follow your favorite artists and friends.

To know what music their listening to and downloading.

FaceBook and Twitter meets iTunes.

Now the Apple TV MakeOver.

Jobs says that it was not a success.

So here it’s the new Apple TV, 1/4th the size

Power, WiFi, HDMI and Ethernet

Cost: 99 cent TV show rentals in HD.

First with ABC and FOX.

Other networks will follow.

And more countries coming to Apple TV later this year.

New AppleTV $99 (it was $229)

So you can use your iPad as a touchscreen remote for Apple TVs in your house–like an audio-and-video one.

It’s tiny: size of a drink coaster, with no hard drive, no computer sync, all streaming.

NEXT POST WITH THE REACTIONS.

Yesterday ViewSonic unveiled the ViewPad 7, not a very good one.

And tomorrow SAMSUNG will present its first Android 7-inch Galaxy Tablet (the iPad is 9.7 inches)

So iPad competitors are here and the winners will be… you and me, the consumers.

Expect immediate reaction from Apple.

And a new, better and cheaper iPad model very soon.

More competition is always good.

Another reason not to miss the INMA/NIEMAN/INNOVATION Harvard Tablet Summit.

Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010.

A Worldwide Summit to learn, master and share new ideas.

Be there!