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No Longer No Sense of an Ending | Contents Magazine
Nice discussion of hypertext, the web, and imagining greater things.
802 
2 days ago
50 shades of DRM
Brian O'Leary on the IDPF's lightweight DRM plan: Don't Do It.
802  copyright  drm 
3 days ago
janemcgonigal.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/engagement_economy_sm-1.pdf
802 
8 days ago
Storm Clouds in Academic Publishing « PWxyz
Nice short piece by Brantley outlining trends in academic publishing.
802  scholarly 
8 days ago
Ariel Katz » The GSU Copyright Case: Some Canadian Perspectives
Excellent Canadian analysis of GSU case and implications.
802  copyright 
16 days ago
Innovating from betwixt and between « PWxyz
Brantley outlines the really big picture of a revolution in scholarly communication.
802  journals 
26 days ago
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review
Nice piece on magazine publishers turning their backs on apps.
802  magazines  apps 
26 days ago
The web and ebooks have little in common – Baldur Bjarnason
Great analysis of what's wrong with the ebook world.
802  ebooks 
26 days ago
The principle matters
Brian O'leary on copyright.
802  copyright 
5 weeks ago
The Power of Fear in Networked Publics
Danah Boyd's awesome sxsw talk on the mainstreaming of social media and the dynamics of attention
802  social 
5 weeks ago
Gluten Free Kids Travel: Seattle, USA
food 
5 weeks ago
Go To Hellman: Publishing's Amazon Powered Future
Best article on Amazon in a very long time. It's all about scale.
802 
5 weeks ago
The HTML5 Gendered LEGO Advertising Remixer
funny mashup stuff
5 weeks ago
Apple Rejects Squeak Smalltalk « QuickSilver Smalltalk
dynabook 
6 weeks ago
AT&T Archives : The UNIX System
Making software "change-tolerant" - video circa 1982
history  unix 
6 weeks ago
We Found Love In A Coded Space | booktwo.org
Fabulous James Bridle talk on network realism, bot love, and the world we live in.
802 
7 weeks ago
How-To Make GF French Bread, Step x Step — Gluten-Free on a Shoestring
food 
8 weeks ago
What’s the greater fear for publishers? Amazon or piracy? – The Shatzkin Files
Pottermore releases Harry Potter eBooks, DRM free, yet available through major e-vendors.
802  ebooks 
9 weeks ago
Exquisite Informational Immersion: Fusing the Visions of Readers’ Advisory and Technologist Librarians | PLA 2012
Heather McCormack on the Public Library Association Conference and thoughts and worries about digital futures.
802  ebooks  libraries 
10 weeks ago
Create rich-layout publications in EPUB 3 with HTML5, CSS3, and MathML
Liza Daly writes the book (a short book) on ePub3. A great reference!
802  Ebooks  ePub 
10 weeks ago
Gnashing of Teeth: Publishers vs Readers « PWxyz
Brantley provides perspective on pricing, control and other shifts.
802 
11 weeks ago
Piracy is not a pricing signal - O'Reilly Radar
Nat Torkington gets into it with the anti-piracy folks.
802  drm  piracy 
12 weeks ago
Game Over, Amazon Wins
On the controversies re: IDPF and CSS WG and innovation vs standards
802  Ebooks  design 
march 2012
I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened - The Oatmeal
Oatmeal utterly nails the piracy/rights situation.
802  copyright 
february 2012
Publication Studio – about
Matthew Stadler: publication = creation of a public around a work
802 
february 2012
Free Land/Thinkubator: Wiki as CMS/LMS, Free Land/Thinkubator: Wiki as CMS/LMS opened09 on USTREAM. Conference
from Open Ed 2009
education  wiki 
february 2012
How Publishers Misunderstand Kindle - The Late Age of Print
Striphas on the Internet business model.
802  amazon  privacy 
february 2012
Yelling it like it is | Alchemical Musings
Can journalists core with the complexity of digital issues -- like privacy -- or does it require new forms?
802  journalism  privacy 
february 2012
Reviewing XML Options - Digital Publishing
Evaluating XML as an alternative to NLM/TEI/DocBook
802  xml 
february 2012
The Hulu For Books That Never Was - The Digital Reader
Mike Cane's strategy for publishers to beat Amazon. Not sure it's right, but it's interesting!
802  bookselling 
february 2012
The NoSQL movement - O'Reilly Radar
Nice piece on modern evolution of databases
802  databases 
february 2012
Jim Groom on Ed Parkour (video)
The inspirational Jim Groom on how and why the open web is the most powerful force for education. All we need to do is embrace it.
802  education 
february 2012
The Self EPublishing Bubble
Ewan Morrison on the near end of the hype.
802  Ebooks  self-publishing 
january 2012
Tipping Barrels on Vimeo
january 2012
Gingery Pork Pot Stickers for Chinese New Year « ♥ Z's Cup of Tea
food 
january 2012
Bookseller Backed by Big Publishers Advocates Abandoning DRM | Digital Book World
Good discussion of DRM and market control issues.
802  Ebooks  drm 
january 2012
Meganomics
Fascinating piece on the real economics of piracy by Joe Karaganis of SSRC.
802  piracy 
january 2012
New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms | Poynter.
Collaborative, change-tracking tools for Wordpress!
802  wordpress 
january 2012
Apple Edu = It’s a revolution, but not ours. | Shuttleworth Foundation
Nice, rich analysis of Apple's move into educational publishing.
802  apple  education 
january 2012
The iBooks 2.0 textbook format – Baldur Bjarnason
Insights into the technical details of the iBooks file format... it isn't simple ePub after all.
802  ebooks  apple 
january 2012
Do we want textbooks to live in Apple’s walled garden? — Tech News and Analysis
More on Apple's strategy with iBooks 2
802  Ebooks  apple 
january 2012
iBooks Author for Authors - Matt Gemmell
A little criticism of iBooks Author as a production environment.
802  Ebooks  apple 
january 2012
A First Take on Apple’s New Education Tools « The Scholarly Kitchen
Joe Esposito on iBooks2 -- some initial impressions and analysis.
802  ebooks  apple  education 
january 2012
The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - NYTimes.com
Stanley Fish assesses the digital humanities. Pt 1
802  scholarly  dh 
january 2012
2011: The Self-Publishing Year In Review | David Gaughran
Interesting (and nicely linked) chronicle of all the self-publishing events of 2011.
802  self-publishing 
january 2012
The Electronic Labyrinth Home Page
"A study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers" from the 1990s... still a fabulous resource.
802  hypertext 
january 2012
HTTP Status Cats - a set on Flickr
802 
december 2011
Lean back media: the shock of the old
Interesting slide deck from The Economist on tablet reading and business opportunities
802  magazines  models 
december 2011
Mark Coker: Amazon Aims to Empty Competitor Shelves of Indie Ebooks
Some insights into Amazon's latest round of market consolidation moves.
802  amazon  ebooks 
december 2011
James Kibbie - Bach Organ Works
music 
december 2011
The profits of free books: an experiment to measure the impact of...
802  oa  scholarly 
december 2011
At close of day: the library alternative « PWxyz
Brantley's strongest statement yet about the future of libraries... Almost a manifesto.
802  Ebooks  Libraries 
december 2011
Writing History in the Digital Age » How it works: our open-source web-book
Nice details on WP-based piblishing project. Esp, plugins.
802  wordpress  scholarly 
november 2011
The Lean Publishing Manifesto - Leanpub
Books and startups... a model based on the comparison
802  models 
november 2011
Contents Magazine
interesting new magazine about content strategy, publishing, editing, design, andvrelated intersections.
802  editing  design 
november 2011
Teaching and Learning News » Blog Archive » Webcast: How a wiki grew to handle almost everything in the Master of Publishing program
JMax on 7 yrs of R&D on wikis in education and publishing. A talk give to SFU's Teaching and Learning Centre.
wiki  cms 
november 2011
Heavy Metal Madness: An Era Thrown Into the Dumpster | CreativePro.com
Retrospective on the Seybold Report
publishing  history 
november 2011
Outgoing: Peak books
Peak oil analogy. From a library perspective This same concept was uttered by Bill Janssen on Read2.0 in the fall.
november 2011
Intellectual & institutional properties of scholarly communication
Willinsky and Provencal in NM&S on monastic culture and property
scholarly 
november 2011
Kobo acquired by Japanese firm Rakuten for $315-million
Huh.
802 
november 2011
How Freemium Self-published Fiction Is Taking Over China | Publishing Perspectives
Web serials enjoyed by tens of millions.
802  models 
november 2011
Books In Browsers 2011: James Bridle, "Books as Data" - YouTube
Such a lovely meditation on books and our relationship with them. James Bridle's métier.
802  social  models 
november 2011
Fast Devices, Walled Gardens « PWxyz
Brantley: "The future is not about social reading. It’s about social content, social experience, and interactive design."
802  devices  ebooks  models 
november 2011
Books in Browsers: Program at Books In Browsers
Slides from BiB11
802 
november 2011
Books In Browsers 2011 - Youtube
Video from the BiB11 conference
802 
october 2011
Subtraction.com: Where Are All the Ed-Ex Designers?
Interesting take on the print-design v UxD divergence: "editorial exerience designers"
802  design 
october 2011
Dennis Ritchie Day - O'Reilly Radar
Tim O'Reilly calls for Dennis Ritchie Day, Oct 30, to honour his contributions to the digital world.
802  history  Unix 
october 2011
Paradise Regained « Snarkmarket
Nice bit of colour commentary on the origins of Project Gutenberg's etexts.
802  ebooks  history 
october 2011
One Google Books To Rule Them All? | The Awl
A longer piece on copyright, books, and the Google Book Search program
802  google  copyright 
october 2011
Linux Compose Key Sequences
dev  linux 
october 2011
HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
Not much on semantics, but not a bad overview of HTML5 and its strategies.
dev 
october 2011
Publishers Launch | Insights from an eBookseller
Kobo's Michael Tamblyn offers some nice little insights on ebook markets today. A slide deck
802  ebooks  kobo 
october 2011
grtjn/xproc-ebook-conv - GitHub
html-ePub, based on XProc
dev 
october 2011
Internet links not libel, top court rules - CBC News
Definition of "link" becomes clearer under the law
802  copyright 
october 2011
Internet Trends 2011 — Mary Meeker
Now at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Mary Meeker still delivers her Internet Trends slidedeck, from Web2Summit.
802  trends 
october 2011
Anxious publishers watch Indigo makeover - thestar.com
Chapters/Indigo re-organizing retail space. Less room for books...
802  bookstores 
october 2011
Michael Geist - Commenting on James Moore's Copyright Comments
Some insight from the Industry minister on the dynamics on our new copyright bill C-11 which has been tabled this past week.
802  copyright 
october 2011
Non-fiction, Cinema, and Libraries « PWxyz
Brantley on the trans-media intersection of cinema, literature, and the troubles libraries will have accessing it.
802 
october 2011
POV - Blog . Could Documentaries Form the Core of the Cross-Platform Story Revolution? | PBS
802  models 
october 2011
if not digital now they soon will be: so let's sue the libraries. AG amends their filing. - Reading 2.0
The Authors Guild gets ever more extreme about digital copyright and libraries.
802  copyright  ebooks  Libraries 
october 2011
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