There has been a lot of debate over the last few years about online media swallowing up print. Being a print magazine, the Intelligence team has been keeping a close eye on the online phenomenon. Wait … do not stop reading now, this is not one of those ‘print vs. online’ debates. That horse was flogged quite a while back.
Last week I was pointed to an interesting site for a punk rock magazine, Distorted, that is based in the UK. What I liked most about the site was the way they integrated old and new media. In short, they have placed the traditional magazine layout on a Web site. The pages are then turned by the mouse cursor at your leisure.
Now this is not a totally new approach to marrying the two mediums but it is one of the better looking options by far. The obvious problem of Internet speeds in South Africa does rear its ugly head of course – the problem is not as bad as I expected though. If you turn about 5 pages really quickly you begin to start turning over loading pages, other than this everything is pretty smooth.
The creators could have been a bit more adventurous, considering the UK has some pretty speedy Internet. For example, instead of having normal pictures on the page they could place video or picture slide shows. Of course us poor souls in sunny South Africa would find ourselves on the wrong end of the Internet stick if that was to happen.
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