Technology
No Bacn for Me, Please. Thanks.
I’m with Mike Gunderloy on this one.
Bacn? Seriously?
I first saw the term earlier today when I read a Tweet from Chris Brogan and it seems to be growing like a virus. See? It has already spread to this blog!
This is meme run amok. We don’t need a new word for email [...]
90 Days with Google Reader - Back to NewsGator and FeedDemon
Back in April I declared myself a Google Reader user, and ditched my trusty FeedDemon RSS reader and the accompanying NewsGator Online service. Google Reader was getting all the press, seemed to be on a roll, and had some features I liked. But after dealing with some frustration in Google Reader today when I went [...]
Does the web help authors write a book better and faster?
Forrester’s Josh Bernoff says the web is helping him write a better and faster book.
Based on the schedules that the publishing industry lives on, we need to complete a draft of Groundswell very soon. Even so, I believe we are delivering material with a high degree of quality. I thought I’d take a moment to [...]
Simon and Schuster Leverages Social Media with BookVideos.tv
If you read my post yesterday about Brian Solis’s look at Social Media for PR and Marketing you will be interested in this announcement from Simon and Schuster. Remember item #4 in yesterday’s post - Does your company have a YouTube Channel?
BookVideos.tv is a video channel S&S will use to feature book trailers, author [...]
Peter Collingridge Get Out of My Head!
This post from the Times emit blog of Peter Collingridge artfully sums up my own opinion of Publishers’ old-school usage of technology and the frustration I often feel when I want to move faster. My favorite quote from the post:
Without a grasp of what makes a good site compelling and successful, it is implausible [...]
