Attending SSP IN! Here's a post I wrote on the Scholarly Kitchen: Fifteen years ago would anyone have imagined that Apple, a dying computer company, would come back to life by gaining control of the music business?Ann Michael under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Sep 2009 Read all the coverage of the Society for Scholarly Publishing IN… Read More
Image via CrunchBase As many of you know, there has been an interesting and spirited debate going on around Chris Anderson's (pictured) new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Malcolm Gladwell's review of that book, and Seth Godin's rebuttal to Gladwell's review. Those arguments speak for themselves and you can see them on… Read More
I've just started contributing to the Society of Scholarly Publishing blog, the Scholarly Kitchen. My first two posts are: Conferences of Infinite Dimension Since When Does Community Mean Everybody If you haven't visited, come by and take a look. We have some pretty interesting cooks in the kitchen!… Read More
This week I’m attending the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS) in London. I’ll put some posts together on the plane tomorrow for this blog and the Really Strategies blog. In the mean time, follow me on Twitter if you’re interested in this event. … Read More
A while back I stumbled on Michael Hyatt’s blog: From Where I Sit. Michael is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. Regardless of where you sit, two of his recent posts are “must reads” for any one! Creating WOW Product Experiences includes a list of ten common “WOW experience” attributes that he and his management… Read More
Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs and a senior editor at Forbes, gave one of the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes this morning. Dan was both hilarious and thought-provoking. So how does someone become the Fake Steve Jobs? Dan asked, but Forbes wouldn’t let him start a blog. Apparently Dan was “old media” and Forbes didn’t… Read More
Highlights from three of the sessions I attended today at the Web 2.0 Expo: User-Generated Censorship Annalee Newitz, wrote an article in Wired, I Bought Votes on Digg, to illustrate how people can manipulate social networks. In today’s session, she contrasted the wisdom of crowds with their potential destructive nature. Annalee went through several sites… Read More
Last night I found out that Kent Anderson from the Massachusetts Medical Society, someone whose innovative and thought-provoking ideas I personally enjoy and find extremely helpful, is blogging at the Scholarly Kitchen for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). In his post today, Kent considers some interesting business models that could apply to the iPod… Read More