The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

Order Takeout Online — Just For the Fun of It!

September 30th, 2009

Order Takeout Online — Just For the Fun of It!

I’m not sure it’s going to overtake surfing for porn, but bravo for the effort! White Spot is a treasured family restaurant here in British Columbia. Used to be downscale, now semi-upscale. Which is to say, having tried it recently, I can’t imagine why you’d eat there, let alone go to the web for takeout….

September 29th, 2009

Adobe-Omniture, Part 2

After my first glib reaction to the Adobe-Omniture deal, this past Friday it struck me that the proposed acquisition by Adobe deserves a lot more scrutiny. So I’ve set myself the task to prepare a detailed in-depth report on the topic and publish it by next Monday. I’ve collected all of the interesting articles and…

September 26th, 2009

Adobe Co-Founders to Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

I missed this story a week ago in the San Jose Mercury-News. According to its web site: “President Barack Obama…picked Adobe Systems co-founders Charles Geschke and John Warnock to receive…the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.” According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The National Medal of Technology and Innovation… is the highest honor…

September 24th, 2009

Four Funerals and a Birthday

I was asked tonight by a friend the simple, “How’s it going?” I’m generally in a positive mood and responded: “Times are still tough, but I remain optimistic about the future of publishing.” It’s later now and I got to thinking: There are still more deaths than births in the publishing business. And that can…