Overmatter: 30.05.14
Behind the scenes of the new Guardian iOS and Android apps, ‘The new app is the foundation for our future in apps - it’ll keep getting better.’
Scotlands’ MagFest returns for a third year with excellent speakers including Andy Cowles and Peter Houston: Edinburgh, 5 September.
Start-a-mag and People of Print review this weeks Printout.
Talking of People of Print, they’ve been around a while but are getting busier and busier supporting printing and printers. Next up: a book.
Taint magazine is a new project by students from LCC and they’re Kickstarting the first issue – support them!
The homepage recedes and ‘Every URL is a potential starting point for readers’ according to the NYTimes’ director of news analytics.
Ex-editor Jane Friedman barely reins in the bitterness as she makes some strong points about the failings of print magazines.‘They can sit at the National Magazine Awards at a single table and congratulate themselves on the industry they're preserving.’
Allscript have relaunched their Singapore-based magazine store with a good selection of your favourites.
And if you’re in London the magCulture pop-up shop will be open again at the Monocle Summer Fayre, June 14/15. We hope to relaunch our online shop the same time.