Aside from the topic, which is interesting, I love the idea that Silicon Alley Insider is facilitating the proliferation of their content. Embedding text. Why wasn’t this done years ago? Related articles by Zemanta Google boosts book digitization by capturing reCAPTCHA (arstechnica.com)… Read More
Why haven’t I been blogging regularly? One big reason is the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) IN Meeting. Richard Newman, from the American Medical Society, and I are the co-chairs of the SSP IN meeting. SSP IN will take over the entire Hotel Providence from September 23rd – 25th. I could tell you all about IN… Read More
Earlier in the spring, while attending the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) NetGain conference, I was asked to answer a question as part of a series for the SIIA Content Division. As the result of sheer coincidence, Chris Anderson was a keynote at the conference and was also asked the same question. Several people were… 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
Kent Anderson from the Scholarly Kitchen linked to this Clay Shirky video filmed at the State Department by TED. It's 17:03 minutes of insight! "What matters here isn't technological capital, it's social capital. These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring…when everybody is able to take them for granted." "They had understood… Read More
Take a look at this video created by Mark Logic. It’s a fabulous summary of where we’ve been and the challenges and opportunities facing us in media and publishing.… Read More
I’ve wanted to learn Spanish most of my life, but I’ve never gotten passed a couple of classes in high school and college. I tried again a few years ago. Even after spending a few hundred dollars on Rosetta Stone, I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. That’s about to change thanks to… Read More
Lately, the economy is all we hear about in the news. It seems as though there are constantly more layoffs, more programs being cut, and more industries asking for help from the government. When so many individuals, companies, and industries are worried about their survival, what happens to innovation? Is opportunity a side effect of… Read More