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 [...]
I was speaking today with the chief executive of a new media technology/services company about some key enhancements to its offering (I’ll be blogging about them on Monday, the official announcement date). We were discussing how challenging it can be to get old media executives into new media positions. I said that while I wasn’t [...]
The Wall Street Journal is good with the facts, but it’s easy to find the bias in its reporting. Only through the filter of the Western world’s most widely circulated financial newspaper do you have to parse a headline that states:
Economists Express More Optimism
…when the summary text states: “Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal [...]
The secret of great models everywhere:
Source: Technosexual Monkeys
And it was used even before Photoshop was invented:
Source for image above and next image: Giopet’s Graphic Art blog (Italy)
A favorite of La Wanda Gastrica!
And of advertising agencies everywhere.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story today, starting off with “The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed ‘Perfect Citizen’ to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.”
Perfect Citizen! Don’t you just love [...]
I always follow the ZDNet blogs to keep up on certain segments of the future of publishing saga. ZDNet’s coverage of new hardware & software, top companies, e-readers, infrastructure and security issues is timely and excellent. Here’s the latest on the iPhone 4.
“…the antenna problem on the iPhone 4 isn’t a software issue. It’s a design [...]
Two new studies by the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) show just how important the Web is to circulation growth.
The more interesting study, Subscription Sales on the Internet — Trend Analysis 2006-2010, involved 28 of the largest consumer magazines in the U.S. reporting for the years 2006-2009. Internet subscription sales increased 78% at a time [...]
I was on the Audience Development magazine website tonight, led there once again by Bob Sacks, and found an interesting piece of news about magazine circulation…which will appear on my next post (such suspense!).
This post is about CAPTCHAs. Did you know that CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans [...]
I uncover some unusual sites and blogs because I have a Google Alert for “future of publishing.” I can’t imagine I would have found it otherwise.
Andrew Shaffer is the author of the forthcoming Harper Perennial Paperback Original Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, to be published January 4, 2011. (Unusual exactitude for a big publisher. [...]
