According to a blog entry on the New York Times yesterday (and according to Google, at 351 other sources), Amazon will be announcing the long-awaited (by its fans) new version of the Kindle on February 9th at a special event in New York City (obviously intended to coincide with O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing [...]
I’m torn.
A twitter can alert us to breaking news at speeds far faster than any newspaper ever could.
Yet with its 140-character limit it surely cannot do much more than create an alert and a quick observation. There’s a huge gulf between a twitter and investigative journalism.
In a perfect world, Twitter would eventually interact with the [...]
That’s the title of a perversely amusing story in today’s New York Times. Apparently a certain Mr. Aleksandr Y. Lebedev, whose former career including spying on Britain for the KGB, has seen his personal fortune take a surprising turn for the better. He know owns the National Reserve Bank, 30 percent of the Aeroflot airline [...]
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that:
“The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an inquiry into Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Chief Executive Steve Jobs’s health, a person familiar with the matter said.
“The inquiry comes after Apple disclosed on Jan. 14 that Mr. Jobs has a “more complex” medical condition than he earlier stated and [...]
This week’s New Yorker offers a gem of an article on the historic struggles that newspapers have endured to survive. While the article starts out in the present: “The newspaper is dead. You can read all about it online, blog by blog, where the digital gloom over the death of an industry often veils, if [...]
I discovered this great bilingual graphic on the blog The Digitalist, although its source is the Spanish-language Soybits (where you’ll also find larger versions).
Very innovative and good clean fun for the whole family!
When will Parker Brothers bring out the board game?
I subscribe to Bob Sacks’ exhausting three times per day newsletter. As I’ve previously noted, Bob is one of the great veterans of magazine publishing and of publishing in general. He’s on our side. I recommend that you subscribe.
Many of his newsletters are simply reposts of articles of interest, but once a week or so [...]
I know you’re getting plenty of info and speculation on this topic all over the Web in the last 24 hours, but the topic remains extremely important to the future of publishing and I feel the need to continue to provide some pointers.
Today’s is from the Wall Street Journal (subscription probably required for this story).
Under [...]
I just received this alert from Mark Anderson, as part of my subscription to Strategic News Service.
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To All SNS Members:
Steve jobs took a leave from Apple, announced this afternoon. In his email to employees, he said:
“Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, [...]
Found this interesting new widget this morning while waiting for a phone call. It’s available here.
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’78cf143b-4497-47cf-9706-519cb482b658′);Get the Eco-Calculator widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
There’s a section of this site on The Impact of Environmentalism on the Future of Publishing. I’ve outlined the issues there, but I see it’s due for [...]
