Tag: Publishing
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DIY Magazines at 20¢ a page
Charging 20 cents a page, paid only when a customer orders a copy, H.P. dreams of turning MagCloud into vanity publishing’s equivalent of YouTube. The company, a leading maker of computers and printers, envisions people using their PCs to develop quick magazines commemorating their daughter’s volleyball season or chronicling the intricacies of the Arizona cactus…
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Is Twitter Going to Replace RSS for News Sites?
Image by biverson via Flickr Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog. Interesting story that looks at how many subscribers various news paper sites have — that is RSS feed subscribers. The suggestion is that twitters are more effective for attracting eyeballs. I think I may agree with this idea. I know…
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Elsevier tweaks custom pub rules :The Scientist [4th June 2009]
Image via Wikipedia An editor did tell me this story didn’t have anything to do with journalism, but in the age of self-publishing, blogging, and all kinds of publishing operations that the growing number of out of work journalists will find themselves considering working for, comes the tale of the Elsevier. An academic and medical…
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A Fascinating but Sad Story from the Publishing Industry
The danger of drugs … and data | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian. Elsevier, a formerly reputable scientific and medical publisher has been outed in a law suit from Australia for publishing what purported to be medical journals, but were in reality marketing pieces paid for by Big Pharma. This kind…
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Times Techie and Barbara Iverson Share a Vision of the Future of News
Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, was interviewed in Wired.com and he talked about things that seem so logical and reasonable, I loved it. Why not have an avatar send a copy of a personalized newspaper to my e-paper or even print it out in Starbucks? Jason Epstein,…
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Netpop sees trend toward DIY sharing vs. seeking entertainment
Whoa, this is a very interesting idea. Think how this “fits” with a flat-lining economy. “Sharing” is a DIY kind of activity, where “entertainment” in our time, often means becoming a consumer and paying for something: Stated simply, 7 million people in the U.S. are contributing content online through six or more activities (uploading photos,…
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Book Reviews and RCCS
Each month, the resource center for cyberculture studies RCCS)publishes a set of book reviews and author responses June 2008 Reviews include: Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on EdgeAuthor: Petra KuppersPublisher: Routledge, 2003Review 1: Adi KuntsmanAuthor Response: Petra Kuppers My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary TextsAuthor: N. Katherine HaylesPublisher: University of Chicago Press,…
Barbara K Iverson 