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About if:book (1)
permalinkThis blog is the public mind space of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a New York-based think tank dedicated to inventing new forms of discourse for the network age. if:book covers a wide range of concerns, all in some way fitting into the techno-cultural puzzle that is the future of ideas. When we're not writing this blog, we build open source software and lead publishing experiments with authors, academics, artists and programmers. ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Book Expo Canada 2008 | June 13 - 16, 2008 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building (1)
permalinkBen VershbowBen Vershbow is a New York-based writer, editor and consultant on publishingand digital media. For three and a half years, he was editorial director ofthe Institute for the Future of the Book, a small think tank dedicated toexploring the evolution of reading, writing and publishing in the digitalage. At the institute, Vershbow led a series of "networked book"experiments, investigating ways of developing books in online communities,and edited and wrote daily for the popular "if:book" ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Want to Watch the Britney Spears Documentary Online? Not So Fast (1)
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You know it’s the attention that keeps building Britney Spears up and tearing her back down, but you just can’t turn away. Now the pop star is trying to climb back up the charts, so she’s inviting you back in once again. Spears produced a documentary about herself (an auto-documentary?) on the Britney-friendly cable network MTV (which is rather pretentiously calling it a “film”). The TV airing starts at 10 p.m. tonight. As for posting ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
The Album Unbundled -- And What to Do About It (1)
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In a perfect world (from the artist point of view) bands would sell only albums. More revenue than what they get from unbundled albums. But that's not how the world works any longer. Music Week has a report on a Music Tank panel titled "Lets Sell Recorded Music" in which renowned artist manager Peter Jenner lashed out at the changed brought by iTunes. The store, he said, has "had the disastrous effect on the record ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
Don’t Forget to ElfYourself (1)
onIt’s true, eCards are soooo ’90s, but that’s only because most of them look terrible, aren’t specific or personalized enough, and/or cost money. But OfficeMax’sElfYourself campaign? TIMELESS. Send your own ElfYourself eCards The holiday campaign, in which users attach a photographed head to an animated dancing elf, is up for its third season. Last year, OfficeMax brags, the site had 193 million site visits in six weeks. That’s huge. This year, OfficeMax ditched the ElfYourself ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Facebook Connect Set To Expand; Includes Discovery, Digg, Hulu and Others (1)
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Facebook, in an increasing attempt to prove its utility beyond its own site (and hence build on its advertising potential in the long run), is expanding its Facebook Connect service on some major media and services sites, including Discovery.com, SFChronicle, Digg, Citysearch, CBS.com, Hulu and others. The Connect service allows a federated identity system of sorts, competing with other services/efforts such as OpenSocial (backed by Google and MySpace) and OpenID, and also allows Facebook services ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
Reflections of a Newsosaur (1)
permalinkNewspaper advertising sales dived by a record 18.1% in the third quarter in a historic, across-the-board rout paced by a nearly 31% plunge in classified revenues.Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Can I Write My Next Law Review Article in Google Docs? (2)
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That day appears to have moved one step closer with the news that the free Google Docs service now supports footnotes, a functionality presently indispensable to legal academic writing (although occasionally controversial). Now if we can just get the law review editors to stop insisting on Microsoft Word, we will be getting somewhere.Shared by jmilles (4) mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web - NYTimes.com (1)
permalink“It’s becoming very clear that advertisers don’t know how to advertise on Facebook,” said Charlene Li, an independent consultant and social media analyst. “But if you take a group of Facebook friends and put them on a travel site where they are spending more time and generating more ad dollars in a focused area like travel, that is an opportunity ripe for getting revenues back and sharing it.”Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Drilling Down - Maybe Canadians Have More Friends - NYTimes.com (4)
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Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number is consistent with Canadians’ generally heavy use of sophisticated Internet features like online video.Contribute comment -
SNL Exclusive (1)
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Oh yeah, SNL had an impression of Rahm Emanuel that got cut in dress rehearsal but was put online. Expect more of this in the future.Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
James Boyle's "The Public Domain" -- a brilliant copyfighter's latest book, from a law prof who writes like a comedian (11)
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Jamie Boyle, of the Duke Center for the Public Domain, has a new book out, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Boyle ranks with Lessig, Benkler and Zittrain as one of the most articulate, thoughtful, funny and passionate thinkers in the global fight for free speech, open access, and a humane and sane policy on patents, trademarks and copyrights. A legal scholar who can do schtick like a stand-up comedian, Boyle is ...Shared by Antoine (8) benh (5) cgsheldon (15) darkeye11547 (8) Lalo (1) marcel weiß (9) mathewi (21) meta (4) Roel (1) Rolf Schewe (17) terri (12)Contribute comment -
Charles Schulz and the Controversy Over Franklin (5)
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Charles Schulz: "I finally sighed and said, 'Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?'" We don't usually think of Peanuts as given to political statements but this great post at Edge of the American West makes the case for Schulz's progressive racial politics. In this 1988 interview Schulz describes the reception of Franklin, the black character introduced to the strip ...Contribute comment -
reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids (15)
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The involvement of Lori Drew (an adult) in the suicide of Megan Meier has been an unavoidable topic. Last week, Drew was tried on three counts of accessing computers without authorization, a legal statute meant to stop hackers. She was acquitted of all felonies but convicted of three misdemeanors. The lawsuit itself was hugely problematic and clearly the result of prosecutors wanting to get her on anything. But in focusing on the technology, prosecutors reinforced ...Shared by Barry Kelly (0) basmatihnr (0) Ben (14) David (10) Ghosthead (28) Graham Freeman (3) John (3) Kevin Marks (0) Loki (13) mathewi (21) MrGuff (5) Nigel Robertson (0) Pat (3) Ryan Bretag (0) SharonG (9)- Ben said: "bullying is best curbed in childhood when children learn that saying mean things about others gives them power". Damn straight. Great article.
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P is for Pirate (1)
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If you read only one Somali pirate story, make it this one: "Mummy, mummy, please can I phone the pirates for you?" "No." "Pleeeeez." By this time, with rain battering my windscreen and cars jamming the road, I was at the end of my tether. "OK", I said, tossing the phone into the back of the car. "They are under P for pirates." "Hello. Please can I talk to the pirates," said my daughter in ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment - Blogging at a Snail’s Pace - NYTimes.com (1)
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Great talk on the future of media. (1)
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Jeffrey Cole, the director of the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, gave a fantastic keynote talk at the “Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis” on the future of the news business. Notice specifically his point about the film and music businesses losing audience without disappearing or even ceasing to be a prominent part of our information culture: Via Nieman Journalism Lab.Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment -
Poynter Online - Al's Morning Meeting (1)
permalinkAt that moment, SAJA, a 15-year-old journalism organization with just 700 members, started its large-scale coverage of the Mumbai story that includes now includes forums, SAJA's BlogTalkRadio channel, resource pages, a Twitter page, a Facebook page and media critique. All of this coverage without spending a dime on Web site development or Web hosting. Everything they are using to tell the story is free.Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
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Reuters AlertNet - Twitter in Mumbai (1)
permalinkNo one knows who most of these Twitter users are and if we can trust what they say. And they are not reliable because they bear no responsibility: if they give false information, deliberately or unintentionally, what price will they pay? What is their incentive for getting it right? Obviously, the mainstream media report things incorrectly sometimes too, but at least you know who to complain to and whom to criticise. Those outlets have to ...Shared by mathewi (21)Contribute comment
