TRE 14 Bill Jensen (formerly known as TRE 12)
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Bill Jensen, Director of New Media at Village Voice Media Holdings, was a panelist today at South By Southwest. The topic of the session, “iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators,” drew an overflow crowd to the Radisson Hotel 21 days before the iPad will be available in Apple stores and for delivery of pre-orders.
Jensen gave a fairly confident assessment of the digital future for his company’s string of 17 alternative weekly publications, including the mothership, The Village Voice, as well as Denver’s own Westword.
He described why the iPad is generating such interest among publishers like himself. I left the session convinced that the hype about this device is not a mirage. Time will tell, and pretty soon. Meanwhile, geeks at SXSW aren’t the only ones suffering from iPad Distortion Syndrome. Click here for video of Stephen Colbert’s Grammy’s gambit that got one into his hands, briefly.
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