My son told me he hated poetry. I showed him this. He wanted to show his teacher but YouTube is blocked at school. That’s too bad. It was a poem he liked!… Read More
For the second time this year I was at the Web 2.0 Expo and missed Clay Shirky’s presentation, but thank God for the Internet! Here are Clay’s presentations. They are both worth watching but if you’re a publisher, and you only have time for one, invest the 16 minutes and 20 seconds needed to view… Read More
Colin Hughes, Managing Director of The Guardian Professional presented the keynote at GIIS Thursday morning. To understand The Guardian, Colin believes you must understand its roots. John Edward Taylor, after witnessing the Peterloo Massacre, feared that Parliament would not get an accurate report from the press. He wrote an account himself and got his report… Read More
Ammy Vogtlander, Managing Director of BlueInsights, participated in a panel discussion on copyright at the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS). According to Ammy, networks of people with common interests (like LinkedIn), information sharing communities (like YouTube or SharePoint), and groups that organize information (like Connotea) are merging. That’s why she co-founded BlueInsights. As these groups… Read More
Wednesday, the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), started with a keynote by Hugo Dixon, Editor in Chief and Chairman of Breakingviews.com (BV), a fully electronic publication of real time financial analysis. “For me content is indeed King,” says Hugo and he believes in charging for it. BV sells team and enterprise subscriptions, can boast 5… Read More
Image by wallyg via Flickr For those of you that don't know, there are two Harvard Squares in the Boston area. One is where you'd expect it to be (in Cambridge). The other one is in Charlestown. I looked up Harvard Square on Google Maps, printed my directions, and stored them in my travel folder. … Read More
Ever notice how technology gets adopted first by pornographers, then by more general entertainment companies, then financial services … and so on? Ever notice how traditional publishers are usually coming on board last? Is it funding (porn has more money)? Is it the zealousness of the customer base? Is it a willingness to take risks?… Read More
Ah…if it were only that easy, everyone would be doing it! I was thinking back this morning to a meeting I had with a Senior Vice President in a (not-to-be-named) publishing company. This company’s very well known CEO told a group of his organizational leaders that he knew the answer to all their product innovation… Read More