Deep Media

Now at Medium: 'The Disappearing Book'

Frank Rose — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:00:55 -0400

A few weeks ago, when I was blogging about Neil Gaiman's speech at the London Book Fair, I came across his reference to These Pages Fall Like Ash, a highly unconventional experiment in storytelling by Tom Abba and Duncan Speakman...

Tribeca transmedia: The power of "Sandy Storylines"

Frank Rose — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:05:30 -0400

Images are powerful, stories even more so. But how do you collect them from hundreds if not thousands of people and present them in a coherent and compelling fashion—especially when you're trying to document an event that was itself so...

More on the future of books: Neil Gaiman at the LBF

Frank Rose — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:20:13 -0400

Not long after the If Book Then conference in Milan and Stockholm, Neil Gaiman gave a much-talked-about keynote at the London Book Fair in which he too talked about the future of books. Speaking to the international publishing establishment, he...

If Book Then . . . what now? Books face the future

Frank Rose — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:16:29 -0400

What's a book, anyway? The answer used to be simple: two covers, a lot of words in between, printed on paper and meant to be stored on shelves. Not any more. With ebooks the paper is gone, the covers are...

"Embracing Analog" at SXSW: What the growing fascination with the physical means for marketers*

Frank Rose — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:15:07 -0400

*and everyone else For this year's SXSW, I worked with the ad agency JWT to devise a survey that would get at what seems an increasingly key question: How do we feel about items in the physical world—books, newspapers, magazines,...

Data dump: Unlike Facebook—or tax it?

Frank Rose — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:45:29 -0500

Douglas Rushkoff's announcement earlier this week that he was quitting Facebook happened to coincide with a major New York Times story about a new French proposal to levy a tax on online data collection. The connection? Both raise an issue...