Fast News for November 16, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> When is an app not an app? A simple explanation from Joe Zeff Design about when you should (and shouldn't) create an app. Essential reading...

>> Tina Brown (former Talk, New Yorker, Vanity Fair editor) will be the new editor of Newsweek, after the Daily Beast/Newsweek merger takes effect...

>> The future of writing on tablets: LA Times interview with Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects. He discusses IA's new iPad app, Writer...

>> Tablet Takeover! The Blistering Rise of iPad and Tablet Computing: an infographic, by Fast Company...