TheWayoftheWeb

I’ve had to find time to try and make sense of the argument presented by The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, but going by an article on Paid Content, it’s going to be a fruitless task.
It seems that ‘Making Good Society’ will warn against recycled news and that the Government has [...]

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I’ve often wondered, and indeed directly questioned, why traditional publishers pondering new markets haven’t tested the water by launching an incredibly cost effective online trial for a new idea?
I suggested it quite a lot in the past – especially using external hosting and services to launch something for a total cost that’s less than a [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit of research into ebooks and e-readers recently. Partly as I was kindly invited to speak at a client conference for publishers (more on that in the future), and also to keep up with the technology on a professional and personal level.
I’ve heard two major criticisms about the format as a [...]

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I don’t mean to be too hard on the BBC news technology show Click (iPlayer link). After all, the broadcast television show does a reasonable job of displaying and explaining technology to a mainstream news channel. And there’s always an occasional something for those more technologically savvy.
But today’s episode highlighted the problem with broadcasting schedules. [...]

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