Comments on: Instapaper: Because the Device Shouldn’t Matter http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/21/instapaper-because-the-device-shouldnt-matter/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bookmarks for September 5th from 17:29 to 17:29 « Mark's life http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/21/instapaper-because-the-device-shouldnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-1241275 Bookmarks for September 5th from 17:29 to 17:29 « Mark's life Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:08:01 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2506#comment-1241275 [...] [toread] [priv] Because the Device Shouldn’t Matter – Kindle next to iPhone [...] [...] [toread] [priv] Because the Device Shouldn’t Matter – Kindle next to iPhone [...]

]]> By:   Kindle Problem: No reformatted PDFs, no Instapaper since late July — contentious.com http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/21/instapaper-because-the-device-shouldnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-1228423   Kindle Problem: No reformatted PDFs, no Instapaper since late July — contentious.com Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:01:57 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2506#comment-1228423 [...] a fan of the free service Instapaper, which I use to import to my Kindle content that I’d rather not read on my computer (basically, anything long-format). My Instapaper account is configured to send a daily digest of [...] [...] a fan of the free service Instapaper, which I use to import to my Kindle content that I’d rather not read on my computer (basically, anything long-format). My Instapaper account is configured to send a daily digest of [...]

]]> By: Michael http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/21/instapaper-because-the-device-shouldnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-1226957 Michael Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:03:07 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2506#comment-1226957 Amy, I read your article at Poynter on Instapaper and I agree wholeheartedly that we should be able to transition seamlessly among devices. Content should be device agnostic ... or as you say, the device shouldn't matter. But I'm not sure that the onus should be on the news consumer to figure all this out. Instead, newspapers should be making it easier for their audience to get to their product, be it on the iPhone, Kindle or any other mobile platform. The content should be there on my device -- without me having to think about it, and without me having to consult an instruction manual. Anyway, as someone who works at a newspaper, I'm confident we'll get this all figured out. Mobile is going to be an exciting area of development over the next decade, sort of like where the internet was in 1994. Michael Amy,

I read your article at Poynter on Instapaper and I agree wholeheartedly that we should be able to transition seamlessly among devices. Content should be device agnostic … or as you say, the device shouldn’t matter.

But I’m not sure that the onus should be on the news consumer to figure all this out.

Instead, newspapers should be making it easier for their audience to get to their product, be it on the iPhone, Kindle or any other mobile platform. The content should be there on my device — without me having to think about it, and without me having to consult an instruction manual.

Anyway, as someone who works at a newspaper, I’m confident we’ll get this all figured out. Mobile is going to be an exciting area of development over the next decade, sort of like where the internet was in 1994.

Michael

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://www.contentious.com/2009/03/21/instapaper-because-the-device-shouldnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-1226931 Stephen Downes Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:35:15 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2506#comment-1226931 Instapaper - because we don't know how to put text on computers yet... Oh, wait, that can't be right. What is we need instapaper for again? Instapaper – because we don’t know how to put text on computers yet…

Oh, wait, that can’t be right. What is we need instapaper for again?

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