TAKEAWAY: It was a special day for the entire family as we welcomed a new member: Daniel Anthony Jude Barravecchio, born June 2, 2010, in Tampa, Florida, at 8:02 am. PLUS: Countdown to the Power of the Tablet conference with Reed Reibstein
It’s grandchild #11 for Mario!
It is my 11th grandchild, but the emotion of seeing that new baby feels just as if he was the first one.
Daniel Anthony Jude is the son of my daughter Ana and her husband Dan Barravecchio. He joins big sister Angelina (5) and big brother Frankie (3). For the next few days, I will be grounded at home to help with the children, and to enjoy the new addition to our big family.
My role is to entertain Frankie and Angelina and I find that the iPad is the ideal tool for the high tech babysitter. And how those young children master the use of the iPad continues to amaze me. The children maneuver around the tablet as if they had been born with one by their side, which, of course, baby Daniel actually has!
Here I hold my new grandson Daniel Anthony Jude for the first time!
Countdown to the Conference: 11 days to go
Almost two weeks before the opening of Poynter’s The Power of the Tablet conference, I turn over the blog to our Garcia Media intern Reed Reibstein, who will also be blogging live from the conference. Reed’s idea is to “warm up” to the conference with daily postings of essential articles that will help everyone understand the tablet as a new journalistic platform.
Why the Biggest Competitor to iPad News Apps May Be a Familiar Icon
Much of the chatter about news on the iPad has centered on the app, but Jason Fry at the Nieman Journalism Lab asked whether we should actually focus our efforts on the iPad’s web browser. “On the iPhone, the browser was used only in emergencies, and apps ruled. On the iPad, at least for now, the opposite is true — the browser is superb, and renders many apps superfluous.” In the same vein, Fred Wilson recently pointed to some specific reasons
why he prefers Safari to the current crop of news apps.
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