Back in 1997 I worked on my first website design. The internet was primitive, and one of the most exciting things going on was the new Mosaic browser, which would eventually become Netscape, and animated .GIF files. So much has changed in the last 10 plus years with the way content and media is delivered it is easy to see that we are in the midst of a content renaissance.

Designing Media is the new book by Bill Moggeridge, His new book examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the traditional media channels have changed, and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book also features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter – also these can be viewed on the website.

Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM—television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books—have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. In Designing Media, design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the MSM have changed and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter.

Bill Moggridge, is the Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. He is a founder of IDEO, the famous innovation and design firm. He has a global reputation as an award-winning designer, having pioneered interaction design and integrated human factors disciplines into design practice.

I think I’ll have some holiday reading to take care of over the Christmas vacation break, thanks to Moggeridge’s new book.