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December 22nd, 2016

Publishing: Turning into 2017

I’ve become intrigued with the intersection of book publishing and machine learning, text mining, natural language processing and the like: technologies that get lumped under the rubric of artificial intelligence. Cliff Guren, who runs the publishing consultancy Syntopical, is emerging as one of the book publishing industry’s top specialists in this area. I thought it…

August 6th, 2010

Illustration, Comix & the Future of Publishing

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…