It's great to see that people are really thinking about how to make digital information more user friendly and unbelievable to think the person featured in the article had such an advanced vision 20 years ago.
Journalism Project Tests Viability of PDF-Delivered News
Here are some of the best tools and service I've personally used that help make digital information user friendly.
- Cerience make a tool called RepliGo which converts documents so that they can be read on mobile devices. This is one of the best all time apps I've used on my Pocket PC. In brief, you 'print' any document that you could normally print on your PC to RepliGo. This creates a file that is synced onto your PDA. The killer part is the ease of navigation of any type of doc on the PDAs small screen. A million times better than Adobe Acrobat for Pocket PC.
- A Tablet PC enables viewing in portrait mode and digital ink notes. My Pocket PC means I can keep a huge stock of docs in different formats with me 99% of the time.
- Zinio does an excellent job of providing digital versions of magazines. Great in combination with a Tablet PC. Unfortunately I spend enough time with a PC and if I have time to read a magazine it's actually nice to get away from digital for a while. Still the note function and the fact you can archive all your mags without creating piles around your house is a great bonus. When Tablet PCs get lighter and have better battery life I may transition more to digital magazines.
- PressDisplay does the same for newspapers and very well. Again the same issue that computers are just not ubiquitous enough to make reading that type of content desirable or attractive for the masses. That will change over time though.
Anyone else out there got tips for tools or services that help make information and content itself more ubiquitous?