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March 9th, 2010

Millions Terrified by One Long Unbroken String of English Words

Courtesy of Bob McArthur I learned that in today’s online the Onion you’ll find the headline “Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text.” Can you blame them?                                                                                                                                From the Onion Boston resident Charlyne Thomson said, “Why won’t it just tell me what it’s about?” There are no bullet points, no highlighted parts….

March 7th, 2010

The First Study of Magazines and their Web Sites

Courtesy of a tip from Bob Sacks, and published in The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Magazines and their Web Sites” found publishers are still trying to work out how best to utilise the online medium. There is no general standard or guidelines for magazine websites and little discussion between industry leaders as to how they…

December 29th, 2009

Some Excellent Jobs at the World Bank

I found an intriguing employment ad while catching up in my reading of The Economist. The World Bank in Washington has four challenging openings for publishing technologists, including: Senior Publishing Officer/Marketing Manager Publishing Officer/Electronic Publishing Development/Content Expert Publishing Officer/Electronic Publishing Development/Technical Expert Publishing Associate/Web Editor/Project Manager Except for job #4, which is defined as a…

September 19th, 2009

What Makes a Great Author Website?

A colleague of mine who is a noted Canadian historian, and a prolific writer, asked today what makes a great web site for an author. So I began an exploration: Most publisher websites for authors are pathetic, placeholders with short bios and links to books. A case in point is Canada’s “most venerable” old publisher,…