Category: Publishing

• Books Convergence Design iPad Kindle Publishing

  The Printed Word: Why Books Will Survive the Digital Age

  I’ve always been a book person. No, I mean a BOOK person. Collector, curator, lover of the dust jacket, size, shape and smell of the printed word on paper. I know how books are paginated, printed, bound, packed, shipped, and how to write a publishing contract. My first career was…

  January 6, 2012
• Architecture Art Convergence Design Museums Publishing

  Passion and the Digital Space: A Moment in Time

  There are over 133,000,000 blogs actively indexed by Technorati. Each day 900,000 posts are published to those blogs and they are read by 346,000,000 people worldwide. Well, maybe not all of those 900 million posts are read. Those numbers stagger the mind (see source here). But serious blogging is about…

  September 18, 2010
• Newspapers Publishing Radio Social Media Technology The New York Times

  Who, What, When, Where, Why

  As someone who reads newspapers, printed on paper thank you, I’ve been intently following the downward spiral of this industry over the last several years. I acquired the habit of reading the paper from my father and there was a point in my lifetime when nearly every adult read the…

  September 22, 2009
• Flickr Publishing Social Media

  Flickr Photostream Mining

  Just this week I’ve had two messages in my flicker mailbox from organizations who have seen photos in my photostream and requested permission to use them for their online publications. One was nowpublic.com, a participatory news network site that bills itself as a platform for citizen journalism. The other was…

  February 20, 2009
• Convergence Google Marketing Online Strategy Publishing Social Networks Uncategorized

  Participation, Power and Social Influence Marketing

  So much talk about social media. It can’t be ignored by firms who want to find more effective ways to market. Everywhere pundits are saying that advertising, as we know it, is dead. That social is the next thing. If we create an environment or community where customers can help…

  March 24, 2008
• Amazon Apple Convergence Kindle Publishing Usability User Experience

  Kindle Makes Electronic Books A Reality, Without the Web

  A colleague of mine who is an avid reader of books (the analog paper kind) is very excited about her new Kindle from Amazon. She was kind enough to bring it in for me to play with over lunch last week; here are my observations. The Kindle is Amazon’s first…

  January 27, 2008