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Fail Harder, Talk at London Book Fair 2009
Earlier this year, I gave a pecha kucha talk at the London Book Fair.
A pecha kucha has to be really fast – your 21 prepared slides run automatically in 20 second increments for a total of 7 minutes – and great fun. The event was impeccably organised by Jon Slack and Doug Wallace under [...]
Published: October 21, 2009. Read more →
Enhanced Editions for iPhone: The Death of Bunny Munro
As you’re no doubt aware, we’ve been working on an ebook app for iPhones, for a while, under the name Enhanced Editions. We’re very pleased to announce that the first fruits of our labour are now available in the app store.
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave is the first Enhanced Editions title, and [...]
Published: September 9, 2009. Read more →
Portobello Pictures
We’re pleased to announce that the updated site for Portobello Pictures is now out.
We first built a website for Portobello Pictures in 2005, working with Angus Hyland and Fabian Herrmann at Pentagram to design the site. Taking its lead from the dimensions of a cinema screen, the site is designed to feel like a private [...]
Published: May 11, 2009. Read more →
Galaxy Book Awards (Nibbies) After Party Photos
Peter from Apt joined Jamie Byng from Canongate to DJ at the after party for this year’s British Book Awards at the Grosvenor House hotel, London.
There is a set of photos on Flickr.
(Includes horrid picture of Noel Fielding from the Boosh’s arse crack).
Published: April 5, 2009. Read more →
Tina Brown Interviewed by Tarun Tejpal from Tehelka, (UKYPE 09)
Somewhat delayed post from our recent trip to India – notes from “The Nature of the Beast” Tina Brown in conversation with Tarun Tejpal at the Japiur Literature Festival, January 24th 2009.
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if [...]
Published: March 14, 2009. Read more →
TED Screens “This is Where We Live”
Some really, really exciting news: the astonishingly A-list TED conference, which has just wrapped up in California, asked to show our 25th Estate film, This is Where We Live and to put it on the DVD given to delegates in the goodie bag.
Of course we said yes! Speakers include Tim Berners Lee, Bill Gates, Olafur [...]
Published: February 10, 2009. Read more →
Amazon: Battle lines being drawn?
Lots of anticipation for the Amazon announcement in NY next week. Will it be Kindle 2.0, a slightly underwhelming device with different buttons and a faster graphics card? Will it be the long-awaited announcement of Kindle UK? Or the announcement of an iPhone app that supports Kindle? This last is (for me) potentially the most [...]
Published: February 6, 2009. Read more →
Republic Day Parade, 29 January, Delhi (UKYPE 09)
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if this isn't of interest. If it is of interest, then you can also see more on our Flickr set]
On republic day, a national holiday and without meetings planned, James, Lucy [...]
Published: February 1, 2009. Read more →
Jaipur Book Fair, 22-24 January 2009 (UKYPE 09)
[Written as part of our visit to India with the British Council. All such posts will be listed in a dedicated category; apologies if this isn't of interest. If it is of interest, then you can also see more on our Flickr set]
As the cliché goes, India is a land of stark contrasts. And for [...]
“Content is Free… but curation is sacred”
One of the ideas going through my head for the past few months can be summed up in the following line
“Content is Free… but curation is sacred”
The phrase (see below for its origins) first came to mind during the Google [un-] settlement with US publishers, and since then I’ve become more and more interested in [...]
Published: January 26, 2009. Read more →