Thad McIlroy - The Future of Publishing

…if you have a university degree AND a publishing certificate, speak English and French and know XML.
This is but one of the challenges of book publishing today: The technical skills required are exploding, but the economics still suck.
I don’t wish to heap ridicule on this particular company: it’s happening everywhere.
Publishing Assistant
Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc./Women’s Press
(Toronto, [...]

…I’ll believe that the printed book is dead. When they stop printing a thousand dollar 20-volume dictionary, wisdom prevails.

If you’re a cheapskate, you can buy the miniature version for five cents less than $400, and they’ll toss in the magnifying glass!
Making the rounds of the blogosphere, Twittersphere and ignoramosphere today is the inaccurate but inflammatory [...]

I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys [...]

You’ve gagged on Gaga and barfed on Bieber. Now, and for the first time, the real purpose of YouTube is presented for your viewing amazement!

Remarkable. If you can’t watch the whole thing, make sure you see the kid starting just after the 3 minute mark. Otherworldly. The Master Vittal Gole of Wai Maharashtra India points [...]

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How novel to imagine that youngsters aren’t novel.
The title of this entry is an English translation of the name of a German article appearing on August 6 in Spiegel Online. I don’t read Der Spiegel, the largest German newsweekly, in German or in English. Fortunately my friend Bob McArthur does, and brought this to my [...]

Let’s start with the fun stuff. Then the dry commentary. Check out two visual cornua copiae (or, as you might have it [and as I had it until I looked it up], “cornucopias“):
1. http://christophniemann.com/   (take some time in his galleries…A LOL experience guaranteed, or your time cheerfully refunded.)
 2. http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579
(That’s just one example of a softer [...]

My favorite moment with Google Gmail is when I go to my Spam folder for a quick glance before deleting, to make sure the coast is clear. Often I’ll find a message or two that does not belong there. I wonder how many I miss. But it’s worth the effort if only to revisit one [...]

I’ve known about the excellent Project Gutenberg for a long time now. It was founded in 1971 by Michael Hart and is the oldest digital library. I hadn’t been back to the site for several years because in my mind it was still the place where all you could download was ASCII text versions of [...]