Publishing’s Next Big Thing.
Publishing’s Next Big Thing. Ars Technica found it by accident, but I’m going to give it a name: Nanopublishing. I would have called it Micropublishing, but Wikipedia says that name...
Spotify Launch
In TechCrunch’s report of today’s US Spotify launch they describe it as a web service… No wonder a majority of US commenters are complaining they already have Pandora, last.fm, Grooveshark....
Anyone remember Adobe Livemotion?
Anyone remember Adobe Livemotion? 10 years (actually, 9 years) is a long time in interface design but the functional similarities between Adobe Edge (the new HTML5, jQuery, CSS animation tool...
Smoke and Mirrors: Post-Postmodernity.
Haven’t blogged in a long, long time. Perhaps because I haven’t been annoyed enough. Rage is the fission required to motivate passion. Passion is the seed of creation. Flowery, I...
Throwaway Technology
Three days ago, I switched on my main work PC and heard one long beep followed by three shorter ones. The machine booted but the display was blank. Checking a...
The Booker Re-Run
In 1971 the Booker switched from being a retrospective of the previous year’s pile of letters to the cutting edge taking of the literary pulse it aspires to be. So,...
Breaking into Writing
How do you break into the literary world? In an interview with Wired, Paolo Bacigalupi, tells us it’s 85% graft, 5% inspiration, and 10% reading lots of fantasy and SF magazines… sort...
Print is Dead, Long Live Print
I wonder if 2010 will be the year that mainstream marketing starts to understand the reach of online publishing. A recent exchange I had doesn’t bode well for it: “Hi...
Gadget of the Year
My pick for gadget of 2009 is a lightweight reading device, containing between 60,000 and 600,000 or more words of text. The catalogue of titles beats every e-reader out there, with...