secrets of the 2008 campaign . mustardroasted potatoes . review of malcom gladwells outliers . search physical books with android . slides from what publishers need to know about digitization webcast .......
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heres another batch web links for 16 november 2008 posted semiautomatically. where attention flows money follows kevin kelly the technium the new rules for the new economy can be summarized as where ever attention flows money will follow. almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. they quickl......
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liz daly from threepress.org posted her slides from her talk what publishers need to know about digitization . the audio of the talk will be posted later but my one takeaway from the slides alone is the hardest decision facing book publishers wanting to digitize is choosing an xml schema and that decision isnt that hard because one schema can flit easily to anoth......
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this is an excerpt from our research paper which will publish in concert with the startwithxml forum on january 13th at the mcgrawhill auditorium in new york. early bird discounting for bisg members is ending soon a good taxonomy is the backbone of your business its how you sort your content. it allows for effective merchandising effective marketing you can aim your cont......
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if you want to see how our media ecosystem has changed then click here . i found it via this insightful blog post by peter brantley. his commentary is worth quoting whats notable is that the images are fairly informal and they are on flickr. this kind of photostream not unique in itself would previously a generation ago have been highly curated entitled ......
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the barack slideshow tools of change for publishing when archives are built incrementally on top of access instead of access being born of hard labor from accumulated storage the nature of the archive is transforme d... ....
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oreilly toc blog has an interview with me . about librivox librivox is a volunteer effort with a big goal record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. in the following qa librivox founder hugh mcguire discusses the projects beginnings the organic development of the librivox community and the distinctions or lack thereof between ......
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oreilly toc blog has an interview with me . about librivox librivox is a volunteer effort with a big goal record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. in the following qa librivox founder hugh mcguire discusses the projects beginnings the organic development of the librivox community and the distinctions or lack thereof between ......
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george lossius the ceo of publishing technology plc wrote a very thoughtful post about our startwithxml project for the new uk blog bookbrunch. he comments after a report on the presentation i did at frankfurt about our project. georges point is that xml is not enough. books will live in a larger world also using xml and highly internal standards and procedures for xml......
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last week laura dawson and i spoke about startwithxml to a group of it and operations people from publishers at the user group meeting for global turnkey systems a company owned by one of our lead sponsors klopotek . we got some great questions afterwards. on reflection we realized that they touched an important theme the need for ceolevel support for the change initiatives to put xml......
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kolla cookstr. en sajt far kokboksfarfattare kan samla sina recept oavsett farlag. plus info som biografi och t ex karta till restaurangen om man driver en sadan. sajten visar recept och lank till valfri butik dar man kan kapa kokboken receptet kommer ifran. tidigare receptarkiv pa natet har fokuserat pa att behalla recepten pa den egna plattformen. en slags s......
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today is of course election day. the readers of this blog will note that like most corporate bloggers i have kept my personal political views under wraps. i suppose i buy into the argument that you dont want to alienate any customers thus leave politics out of the equation. however others have taken a different view. one blogger whose work i always read is tim oreilly the fo......
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web analytics mining visitor data for trends has been around for about fifteen years. we web workers have attempted to find good ways to convert the numbers to something that resembles user engagement with varying success. now that videos are a major part of the web new ways of measuring streams are emerging. the nascency of video analytics serves as a reminder that we still dont have s......
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if you want to score some easy points with the geek crowd tell them that drm digital rights management stinks. but with the stress of the elections i could use a few easy points so humor me. when youre evaluating a change to the network you have to think always what will the real effect on network performance be and this is important if theres one overarchi......
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a plea for better metadata in book publishing wondering who will be the industrys imdb . not everyone chooses a film because of who directs it or who the screenwriter was but some of us do and now with databases like imdb we can easily find lists of films containing the actors we like or directors and discover more things we might like to watch. i think books can be the same. curre......
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a google ja chegou a um acordo com a association of american publishers e a authors guild no sentido de expandir o acesso a milhaes de livros esgotados atravas da plataforma google books . a google comprometese a pagar os direitos que devia a autores e editores suspendendo as respectivas acaaes judiciais. em contrapartida fica com a administraaao de um book rights re......
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eoin purcell personanondate booksquare seem to have it right pnd all around on the surface this looks like an excellent compromise. indeed it could represent a momentous shift in the way we interact with books and book content. congratulations to all parties for getting this agreement completed without too much blood spent. booksquare still its an even bigger win for the publ......
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apologies that this blog looks a little new york timesy lately but i had to share this oreillys andrew savikas wrote a very interesting post on some of the interesting stuff were doing theres something going on at the times that probably wont make it to silicon alley insider much less the mainstream business press and its something thats starting to make me thi......
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while clearing out some old files i came across a folder of articles culled during research about three years ago while i was building the case for increasing our use of xml for book production. if youre looking to take a break from the steady stream of terrifying financial news heres a few hours of time wellspent on angle brackets. much of this skews fairly technical includ......
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she says you cant repeat the past i say you cant what do you mean you cant of course you can. edition todays links of interest ron paul promises to return when country needs him most in the meantime you can find him at the ron paul convenience store out on the i15 somewhere near baker ca. mccain campaign volunteer admits alleged attack was......
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this semester im fortunate to spend my wednesday nights teaching management to students who are part of nyus m.s. in publishing program. although a significant share of the course is given over to management fundamentals the students are for the most part already working in publishing so they also look for connections between lessons learned and their realworld application. ......
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the survey for this project closed a little more than a week ago. were continuing the analysis now and well do a full briefing in early november but here are some highlights 165 publishing professionals responded the majority 60 work in trade or consumer publishing with a healthy crosssection of professional school and academic publishers also repre......
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oreilly tools of change for publishing will host a free webcast with search engine optimization seo expert jamie low on wednesday oct. 22 at 1 p.m. eastern 10 a.m. pacific. link... ......
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la guerre de la vente de livre a dmarr il y a quarante ans avec larrive des premires chaines de magasins du livre aux etatsunis et la monte de barnes nobles borders pour la premire fois en 2008 rapporte morris rosenthal dans son blog amazon est en passe de vendre plus de livres aux etatsunis que la totalit des magasins de barnes nobles plus si lon......
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fautil distribuer ses contenus en petits bouts en parties exploites diffremment comme le proposent dj bien des diteurs finalement. et laura dawson pour toc de citer les contenus de guides de voyages qui servent faire du livre du web et mme des contenus pour navigateurs gps. et de citer galement des diteurs scolaires qui utilisent des mmes contenus pour faire des manuels......
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