I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books will have more life in digital editions than in paper ones. I’ve been writing in [...]
Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point
Can Twitter Make It?
Sometimes, especially after this week’s Twitter DNS debacle—Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect-Twitter Email Security Blamed for Latest Hack—, I wonder if Twitter really has what it takes to make it in the long haul. It certainly took them long enough to get basic scaling working. At least now a simple Apple announcement [...]
WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now

This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking [...]
What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?
Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, [...]
Time for a new look at “content federations?” Building our hand-crafted content together.

The big topic at the moment, even as evidenced even by Fever/Chill Pill– Is Mike Arrington’s post on the demise of hand crafted content—The End Of Hand Crafted Content—then followed by several sage responses: Doc Searls Weblog · The Revolution Will Not Be Intermediated Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried The [...]
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