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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 →
Small Publishers
It’s hard to know what is happening in publishing. On the one hand we have the agglomeratisation which is undoubtedly going to increase in the coming months, be it in the aggressive war chest accumulated by Lagadere, whatever happens with the HMV/Waterstones/Ottakers sales, or some other large sale, purchase or merger. All of this points [...]
Published: May 4, 2006. Read more →