Irwin's Page

"Newspapers."
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I wrote a few blog posts that explain my idea how and why "the page is dead".

Google's blog post on the introduction of their new magazine search starts like this:
The word "magazine" is derived from the Arabic word "makhazin," meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created and consumed, passed from person to person in cafes, barber shops, libraries, and homes around the world. If you're wondering what cars people drove in the eighties or wh… Continue

I should add that if you use Comic Sans (or Impact) without irony in your final projects I will fail you without mercy. Continue

Printed materials weigh a lot. From books to corporate brochures, these bulky materials are costly to ship and costly for the environment in terms of emissions from the planes, trains and trucks that transport them.

Normally, books are printed in one place, shipped worldwide to distributors and then forwarded to booksellers, each step of which can significantly contribute to the total volume of greenhouse gases an organization or company emits.

That opens a niche for what some organizations an… Continue