The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
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…
October 9th, 2008
I read the news today, oh boy! A little less gloomy than earlier in the week, but another barrage of depressing madness. I found an article from a couple of days ago in The New York Times by Vikas Bajaj titled “Forget Logic; Fear Appears to Have Edge.” It begins: “The technical term for it…
September 26th, 2008
I’ve just updated my article on the future of newspapers. It was painful. The news about the newspaper industry in North America has been so unremittingly depressing for so many years that it’s extremely difficult to re-enter the topic with anything but a grimace. Still, I managed to create a new section that I call…