TAKEAWAY: Today we are making the liveblog from last week’s “Power of the Tablet” conference at Poynter available in two easy-to-read formats. PLUS: Resurrecting now defunct magazines (and memories) into iPad apps
For your iPad or iPhone
Download this ePub file to read the liveblog in iBooks on your iPad (or iPhone, if you are on iOS 4): https://acrobat.com/#d=4WU3CwH*K-30WQFxhH57sA . To load it onto your device, download the file; connect your device; open iTunes; drag the file onto the Library section of the screen (at the top left); click on the Books section of the Library and ensure that you have clicked “Sync Books”; and, finally, sync your iPad or iPhone.
You can also view this ePub file on your computer by downloading Adobe Digital Editions, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/.
For your computer
Download the Microsoft Word version of the liveblog: https://acrobat.com/#d=ahyZcnH3u5hIirdiiEFj6A .
Gourmet magazine as iPad app!
Delighted to read that Gourmet magazine will be resurrected as an iPad app. Just in time for me to use the iPad in the kitchen and perhaps try my hand at a recipe or two when time allows.
Amazing how this bit of news brings back the memory of a Gourmet magazine of the late 1970s. We lived in Syracuse, New York, and Thanksgiving was approaching. Maria, a loyal reader and collector of Gourmet, spotted a recipe for Mont Blanc, that sweet dessert made of pureed chestnuts and whipped cream. We figured it would add something extraordinary for our Thanksgiving meal, to balance the more traditional fare of pumpkin pie (never my favorite).
Maria followed the recipe closely. My job was to read the ingredients out loud to her as she stood in front of the stove, attired in her favorite red apron. The Mont Blanc was delicious, and I had forgotten all about it till I got a note from Jim McManus today telling me about this wonderful news about Gourmet’s resurrection in tablet format.
Like Jim, I wonder if other great magazines that have long ago disappeared will now make a grand appearance as iPad magazines. Think LIFE, which would be ideal for the very photocentric iPad. And how about LOOK Magazine?
And Cuban Americans should insist that Bohemia, that legendary of Cuban magazines, reappear on the screen of an iPad.
The iPad magaizne rack is beginning to look great.
And, just in case someone now wants to try a piece of Mont Blanc, I have found a recipe that seems to be quite similar to the one we followed: Follow it here: http://homecooking.about.com/od/dessertrecipes/r/bldes135.htm
Indeed, the Mont Blanc is a caloric bomb. However, I was not into calories in the 1970s, and, besides, we burned plenty of them while raising four growing children, or shoveling all that Syracuse snow that greeted you each winter morning as you tried to get to work.
Bangkok back to normal
Leroy Sylk, design director at The Nation of Thailand, is happy to report that his city, Bangkok, is back to normal following weeks of tension, violence and chaos.
“Right now attention has turned to the World Cup,” he writes, “and here we follow the British team with great interest.”
Happy to hear that it is peaceful there, and here are two pages from today’s edition of The Nation.
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