Via Martin Stabe, who should be in your RSS reader: Bridgestone (aren't they a tire and rubber company?) has somehow given birth to an unholy abomination that combines many of the shortcomings of a broadsheet printed newspaper with the shortcomings of electronic technology. It's a "full-size" e-paper. Ewwww!
It's been something like six months since the launch of the Times Reader, which I dissed as Microsoft's deja-vision of the future. Now Hearst, which owns the troubled Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has lined up with the dark side, announcing its own downloadable reader. Similar announcements have come from Forbes and London's Daily Mail.
Last week in Moscow at the World Editors Forum I had a chance to hear details of Microsoft's so-called "Times Reader" electronic newspaper vision of the future. A lot of the conversation I've heard about this reader has assumed Microsoft is reinventing PDF. That is not the case.
