Archive
Recent Emissions
In no order, and certainly not chronological:
‘Participation’ is becoming the fifth ‘P’ of marketing (from Fallon Planning)
Heavily linked last year, but worth a remebering link: visualisation methods
A very Californian set of predictions for 2007
Seth says, Don’t Make A Bad Deal
Sony again caught out astroturfing
Customised newsfeed printed on paper, anyone?
The A-Z of Second Life
Booksquare agrees with [...]
Published: January 29, 2007. Read more →
A Period of Transition
What follows is a post I’ve had lined up for a while, which unapologetically asks a difficult question. My apologies in advance to all of you who have been offended by my improper language in the past – but I’m going to be swearing again in the bit that follows…
Published: January 19, 2007. Read more →
The Key Phrase is “3.5 inches is suspiciously perfect for reading.”
Booksquare has made the one insightful comment I’ve read since Steve Job’s iPhone presentation. And it is that the ‘iPhone can save the book industry’. Two quotes from the full article:
The iPhone also features a surprisingly large screen, and has the ability to automatically change the screen orientation when a user turns it sideways. At [...]
Published: January 16, 2007. Read more →
Happy Birthday Dr King
It’s MLK Day – the holiday to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, which was lobbied for by Stevie Wonder (among others) and also (not a lot of people know this) Gil Scott Heron. Gil’s next book – soon to be published and called The Last Holiday – outlines his involvement in the campaign [...]
Published: January 15, 2007. Read more →
The death of flash animation?
This follows from a thowaway line in the idea-packed conversation (part one; part two) between Russell Davies and Richard Huntingdon, two big brained thinkers on the future of communications.
Published: January 5, 2007. Read more →
Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani
This is something we’ve been working on for a while and which we’re very excited about. Londonstani by Gautam Malkani was one of the most talked-about debut novels of 2006. But lots of the talk was about the anything other than the book itself. Most regularly, the size of the advance paid by 4th Estate [...]
Published: January 4, 2007. Read more →
Google Book Search: Medialoper
An interesting post from Medialoper today on ‘Whatever happened to Google Book Search‘. One choice quote is, ‘if a publishing house isn’t feverishly digitizing backlist while I write this, they do not deserve a place on the bookshelf’.