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Peter Collingridge Get Out of My Head!

Submitted by Chris on Friday, 06/1/07No Comment

This post from the Times emit blog of Peter Collingridge artfully sums up my own opinion of Publishers’ old-school usage of technology and the frustration I often feel when I want to move faster. My favorite quote from the post:

Without a grasp of what makes a good site compelling and successful, it is implausible that a publisher could “leverage” the new technologies to worthwhile benefit without wasting the ample opportunities before them. If you haven’t ever mashed-up a video on YouTube, what makes you think your readers will?

Peter, can you read my thoughts?

(Via Joe Wikert)

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