October 2008
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Northwestern's Medill School is looking for a few... →
This is pretty rad. Interactive media (like this NYT campaign contribution guide) are the future of journalism online. Good on Medill for pulling code nerds into j-schools. Journalism needs them.
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Google settles with book publishers, becomes... →
The old model buys books from authors and publishes them. It’s dying, just like all traditional print models.
The new model is more like a literary agent: edit, package, and market the text, in exchange for a portion of the profits (NOT royalties). The “publisher” doesn’t actually publish the book—Google and Amazon do, as a print-on-demand service.
Discuss.
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“Stop and think about where you are reading this column. If you are one of the...”
– I’m guilty as charged. (From this NYT article about the Christian Science Monitor’s announcement that, after more than 100 years, it will cease publishing a daily paper. It’s only going to get worse from here.)
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Join character strings with Excel's concatenate... →
Sweet action. Saved for my own edification.
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At Frankfurt, Many Say Digital Will Take Over... →
Reading between the lines here, it looks like the Internet is making certain types of books obsolete. BUT (and this is a big deal) not everything.
While 39 percent of respondents agreed that online bookselling was the most important industry development in the 60-year history of the fair, some 25 percent forecasted that the traditional retail bookseller would be obsolete in the next 60 years;...
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“I wouldn’t be surprised if, in 10 or 20 years, video games are creating...”
– Jay Parini, a writer who teaches English at Middlebury College, from this NYT article about books publishers creating video games to tie into their books.
I doubt that video games will ever replace books, but Parini is right — there’s untapped potential in games, and one day someone...