Archive for February, 2009

Kindle 2 and the publishing revolution

Jon Reed | 11:06 pm 24 Feb 09 Comments 4

Everyone’s talking about Kindle 2. To those outside the industry this must sound as opaque and mysterious a revolution as Vatican 2. [My only reference for that is The Thornbirds, which you can now buy as a Kindle edition].
The Kindle 2 is the next generation of Amazon’s wireless e-book reading device, and it started shipping [...]

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon.com, Daily Show, iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Jon Stewart, Kindle 2, Publishing, Sony Reader —

Tools of Change 2009

Jon Reed | 8:51 pm 20 Feb 09 Comments Off

Were you at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York last week? No? Me either. If, like me, you missed out on the annual digital publishing love-in, here is your crib sheet:

download the slides from your favourite presentations
watch Chris Brogan’s presentation on Blogging and Social Media.

Enjoy!

Tags: blogging, Chris Brogan, New York, O'Reilly Media, Publishing, social media —

London School of Journalism goes virtual

Adele Ward | 12:00 am 05 Feb 09 Comments 3

The London School of Journalism is showing just how Second Life can be used to enhance online learning with a series of free lectures which are proving extremely popular. Unusual though it may look to anyone who hasn’t tried teaching or learning in the virtual world, SL offers advantages over other distance learning methods that [...]

the winter of disintermediated content

Jon Reed | 5:51 pm 02 Feb 09 Comments 2

Welcome back, dear reader, and a belated Happy New Year! Are you optimistic about this year? The news is so full of economic doom and gloom these days, I’d understand if you were feeling a bit mis. January was a long, dark month. Then today saw the start of the heaviest snowfall in the UK [...]