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digital content, physical book

This week has seen the first O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in San Jose, California, with much coverage in the blogosphere, including on Print is Dead. Wednesday’s keynote speaker at TOC, Manolis Kelaidis, presented an intriguing mash-up of … Read more

a good idea and a camera

Far be it for me to give a shout-out to a large American corporation. But I am going to mention Coca Cola. Actually, they had nothing to do with this. It was Eepybird who created a series of ‘experiments’ with … Read more

the dark side of social media

Yes, much as I’m hooked on Facebook, blogging and the like, social media does have a dark side. I went to a discussion on this topic last night, organized by Chinwag. Issues discussed included identity theft, bullying, spam, political bloggers … Read more

do you have carving anxiety?

The latest publisher to get involved with social media is Simon & Schuster who, yesterday, launched their YouTube channel. They also launched a blog at www.bookvideos.tv. This is essentially composed of one blog posting per title, with a video, book … Read more

Second Life gets a new voice

I mused in a previous posting that Second Life would get more interesting once the environment became more realistic, and when you could actually speak to people, using your voice, rather than typing. Well, nearly four years after the metaverse … Read more