7 Things Making Digital Publishing Better Now

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen

This is it: the golden moment when digital media can really come into its own. To create a new standard in quality digital publishing, we need to recognize it as an entirely new medium and rethink the relationship between content, editorial design and user experience. Sometimes that means borrowing from and improving on trusted old standards. At other times it means pushing into new frontiers. In the SAY Media Lab, here's how we're seeing this start to happen.

1. Web typography no longer sucks. The rapid adoption of new standards and technologies, as well as the launch of services such as Typekit (or even Google’s free alternative Web Fonts), has essentially fixed the Web’s typography problem and is ushering in a renaissance of editorial design.

2.There is no mobile Web. The separation of desktop and mobile devices is quickly becoming moot. We use our phones to browse the Web from the couch and we work from our laptops while sitting in the park. There’s only one Web. Your publication needs to exist everywhere it does.

3. App or website? Easy decision. We have a simple rule: if it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app.

Read more at SAYDAILY's Week In Venn

Headed to the Products Are Hard conference? Hear GM Jeff Reine speak about reinvigorating TypePad!

As the person responsible for guiding TypePad's business and product strategy, GM Jeff Reine knows the business of blogging, and he'll be sharing his insights (and talking about reinvigorating TypePad) at the first annual Products Are Hard conference next week.

Products are Hard focuses on the art of product creation with speakers and audience members from various industries. Speakers and panelists will include product leaders from Zynga, YouTube, Clorox, Wikipedia, Yammer, and several other companies, including SAY Media!

The conference takes place on May 1st at San Francisco's Whitcomb Ballroom. If you're already planning to be there, don't miss Jeff. Not registered yet? You can do that right here this week.

Want to hear more from TypePad's own Jeff Reine? Follow him on Twitter, and catch his blog here on TypePad.

Featured Shop: The Hidden World of Eloise

Eloise creates fairytale-inspired art that is sure to capture your imagination. You can choose from prints, jewelry, buttons and more. We especially love her new line of stationery that includes adorable journals and bookmarks. 

That's it for our 25 days of featured shops but don't fret - the TypePad Shop is staying open all year long! Don't forget to submit your shop!

Featured Shop: The Happiness Project

The Happiness Project isn't exactly a shop like the others we've featured. But because the spirit of the holidays is about celebrating what makes you happy, we had to include it. Gretchen Rubin believes you can attain happiness by taking small, simple steps every day. She shares tips, quotes and exercises to help you along the path of your own happiness project. Her blog has links to her best-selling book and new 2012 daily calendar.

There's more to discover in the TypePad Shop!

Featured Shop: Katie Can Draw

Kate can draw: little kitties doing yoga, comic book characters, or even a custom mini-painting of anything your heart desires. Be sure to check out her webcomic about a monster named Gronk. 

You know the drill - there's more great stuff in the TypePad Shop.

Featured Shop: small sweet steps

We'll let Stephanie Ryan's words speak for her blog: "It is my purpose in this life to help inspire others and then in turn myself, using love and the creative arts as a means to heal our spirit and live our truth one small sweet step at a time." Her shop is full of colorful, whimsical art for kids and grown-ups, too.

Santa Claus is coming to town! Maybe he stopped by the TypePad Shop?

Featured Shop: the blackbird sings

Have you ever seen a beautiful work of art painted on a pebble? Natasha Newton creates original art and illustrations which she showcases on her blog, the blackbird sings. You can pick up her pieces in her Etsy shop.

There's more art to discover in the TypePad Shop!

Featured Shop: I Love Life

Kal Barteski is all about art - creating art, discussing art on her blog, and selling art in her shop. With bold lines and inspirational themes, her pieces are great gifts for the modern art lover on your list. 

There's more to love in the TypePad Shop!

Featured Shop: Botanical Paperworks

If you love paper, you'll love Stationery Scoop, a blog by Heidi, owner of Botanical Paperworks. Botanical Paperworks manufactures and sells seed paper - after you've enjoyed your greeting, you can plant the card and watch beautiful wildflowers, herbs or veggies grow. The products are all made from post-consumer recycled materials, so there's no waste. It doesn't get much more eco-friendly than that!

Find more fun and thoughtful gifts in the TypePad Shop!

Featured Shop: Karla Dornacher

Karla Dornacher creates colorful and inspirational wall art, digital clip art, hand mirrors and more. Check out her blog for creative inspiration, free printables, and personal anecdotes.

There's more to love in the TypePad Shop! Have you submitted your shop yet?