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...
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When Bad Institutional Websites Happen to Good People
In Vancouver the public transit is operated by Translink. There are lots of good things to say about Translink. The buses are clean and fairly punctual and the drivers are generally friendly and...
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Part of why the glass is more than half-full at The Future of Publishing: Xtranormal. If you can type, you can make movies…a very nifty site. I was going to make you a nice movie to prove it, but one...
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Think Good Thoughts About Adobe Acrobat
(The title of this post is inspired by one of my favorite books of cartoons by one of my favorite New Yorker cartoonists, George Booth: Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat.) I’ve been using Adobe’s...
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Hated the Book. Loved the Kindle
From the “You Can’t Please all of the People all of the Time” department: The book in question is the Booker Award-winning The Sea, by John Banville. Most of the 142 customer reviews on Amazon are...
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Business Letters and Web Site Design
I’ve been trying to find a simple explanation of effective user interface design for web sites. I think this captures the tone: You put your left foot in / You put your left foot out
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EPUB 3 Changes the Game
I’m in New York at the sold out IDPF 2011 Digital Book conference run by the International Digital Publishing Forum. What a day it has been! The big news of course is the “release”1of EPUB 3, the new...
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Is Metadata Magic?
When I began researching The Metadata Handbook I believed that metadata was magic. I believed that if you could add rich and accurate metadata to a title listing you’d all but guarantee big sales. I’ve...
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Read & Watch the Future of Publishing at the New York Times
I feel like I’m coming in from the Web wilderness as I start viewing John Branch’s, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek on the New York Times site. Snow blows across a mountain peak as the saga of...
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Visuals Signal the Change in Publishing
The Wall Street Journal (fortunately not behind their anally-retentive firewall) is a relatively simple but very powerful photographic look at “Before and After Typhoon Haiyan” in the Philippines....
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