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The Long Tailed Book Seer
So in downtime over the past month or so we made The Bookseer, a fun little web app, and it went live last week. It’s really simple, but we’re delighted to note that it has seen a lot of love and quite a lot of action in its first week.
Seeing as the Bookseer is [...]
Published: June 14, 2009. Read more →
Mad Men: Books as psychological (product) placement
Sunday saw the opening of the second season of Mad Men; the drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in the early 1960s.
Mad Men is brilliant for all sorts of reasons, but one thing it does very well is show the cracks emerging in a society as it shifts from life as it always [...]
Published: July 29, 2008. Read more →
Reading in RSS (is different)
Like a lot of people these days, I read a lot in RSS. And I love reading in RSS.
However, I don’t think a lot of people in publishing (or in magazines, perhaps?) can possibly do the same. It’s still sadly the case that when one says “RSS” in meetings, one gets a lot of head [...]
Published: July 28, 2008. Read more →
Gremilins Sorted
Sorry, but there is a problem with the blog. I thought we had it sorted on Friday, but some people are saying that the links aren’t working. We’re on it and will re-post when it’s working. There was a rogue update script that was run over the weekend which threw a lot of stuff off-kilter…. [...]
Published: March 5, 2007. Read more →
FourQuads: Brand Damage?
Before we moved into our new house, we stayed in Chiswick, for about the last week. I’d end up going up to the High Road to get a coffee, whilst taking the boy out of the house for a stroll at the same time at around 10.30 am. And every day, there would be the [...]
Published: February 19, 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 →
New Models #1
Penguin’s Viking imprint have announced a web-only, limited edition, 10-installment ‘victorian’ style publication, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.
Ignore, for one minute, ladies and gentlemen, that (as a commenter on the viking blog says) the book has been published in the US already. Think instead of the fact that this could be an [...]
Published: September 4, 2006. Read more →
Away
I’m going on holiday for 2 weeks, to the south of Spain. See you when I get back, July 18th.
Published: July 4, 2006. Read more →
A quick primer from the bloggers
An overvview from GalleyCat on the Digerati’s claim on publishing;
Grumpy Old Bookman on how the future will pan out for publishers; and again on the BEA outburst by John Updike, and Michael Calder on that;
An interview with Michael Calder and Chris Anderson on The Long Tail;
The Medialoper summary of Kevin Kelly’s controversial NYT piece ‘Scan [...]
Published: June 9, 2006. Read more →
Converged vision
Fascinating article in medialoper about the vision they see as Yahoo’s for the converged entertainment platform of the 21st century.
Published: May 7, 2006. Read more →