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Quark Decides It’s Better to Join ‘Em Than Beat Them

Monday, October 27, 2008
Category: Software

Today Quark made a significant announcement:
“…Quark announced groundbreaking innovation in automated workflow publishing by extending the capabilities of Quark Publishing System 8 (QPS to include support for both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. QPS users now have the flexibility to use QuarkXPress with QuarkCopyDesk and Adobe InDesign with Adobe InCopy at the component [...]

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The Kindle Changed Oprah’s Life

Sunday, October 26, 2008

According to an entry on Oprah Winfrey’s blog, called “Oprah’s Favorite New Gadget,” “This summer, Oprah received a gift that she says changed her life. ‘It’s absolutely my new favorite favorite thing in the world,’ she says.” It’s nearly November and she hasn’t found another favorite favorite thing in the world? I guess she already [...]

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Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth

Friday, October 24, 2008
Category: Wikis

In the November/December issue of the marvelous MIT Technology Review is a very fine article by the respected author and professor of computer science, Simson Garfinkel on the ever-controversial subject of what can we expect and trust from Wikipedia.
The topic has been a challenge for some time, mainly pitting the Encyclopedia Britannica, that most respected [...]

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There is No New Media

Friday, October 24, 2008
Category: Copyright, Video

I was greatly inspired today to encounter this quotation from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France on October 15th:
“There is no old media. There is no new media. There is one media with one common purpose; to inform, move and inspire the world through information, art and entertainment.”
MIPCOM is [...]

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Economics and the Future of Publishing

Thursday, October 9, 2008

I read the news today, oh boy! A little less gloomy than earlier in the week, but another barrage of depressing madness. I found an article from a couple of days ago in The New York Times by Vikas Bajaj titled “Forget Logic; Fear Appears to Have Edge.” It begins: “The technical term for it [...]

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