The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
November 12th, 2008
The title of this entry is pulled from an article in the New York Times by David Carr published ages ago: October 28th. Titled “Mourning Old Media’s Decline,” the piece allows me to create an entry on this blog that summarizes the sorry state of newspaper and magazine publishing, thereby avoiding what was starting to…
October 27th, 2008
Today Quark made a significant announcement: “…Quark announced groundbreaking innovation in automated workflow publishing by extending the capabilities of Quark Publishing System 8 (QPS 8) 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 level…
October 26th, 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…
October 24th, 2008
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…
October 24th, 2008
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…