The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
November 11th, 2009
Since its launch in 1995 I’ve been a fan of Salon.com, even though it was still in the early days of the Web. Salon’s history has been oft-recorded. One account, from the improbable Scripophily.com (which is selling an early share certifiate as memorabilia for $70 bucks) notes that “journalism veterans David Talbot, Andrew Ross, and David…
November 11th, 2009
As reported in the Wall Street Journal Adobe Systems has just repeated what one prays does not continue as an annual event, the pre-holiday season layoffs. Last year it was 600, or 8% of the workforce; this year 680, or 9% of the workforce. This layoff is in addition to the some 100 laid off…
November 10th, 2009
I subscribe to Amazon’s press release feed and was greeted this morning with the headline, “Kindle for PC’ Now Available — The Free Application for Reading Kindle Books Available on the PC Today for Readers Around the World.” So I went to the download page and received this message: I’d read last month when Amazon…
November 6th, 2009
So much easier to use the title of the article I’m blogging that to think up another title that says the same thing: “The Best of Today’s E-Book Readers” is the name of a brief, superficial and badly-researched article in PC World, published November 2nd. I note it for two reasons. The first is that…
November 5th, 2009
Fortune Magazine has christened Apple Computer’s CEO, Steve Jobs, as “CEO of the Decade.” You certainly will find no disagreement from this corner. The Official Steve Jobs Photo from Apple Computer’s web site You’ll find some great coverage of the man, his career and his products at the link above (reinserted here for the mouse-weary). People…