Author website dos and don’ts are one thing. Evaluating the success of an author website is another. If you want to be facile you could say a site with lots of traffic is successful and a site that gets no traffic is unsuccessful. Presumably, this would take into account how well it is SEO’d or [...]
After tracking down Neal Stephenson’s site — and being disappointed with it — I started thinking about author websites again. Who should own them? Who should control them? What platform should they be built on? Who should build them? And who should pay to have them built and maintained? Questions that have been [...]
I don’t have very high expectations when Wired magazine shows up on the door step. The signal to noise split means I often put off reading it. Seeing that Steve Carell wrote the cover story this month made me groan. I blame you Conde Naste. Fist shake. Argh!
Having finished Gary Wolf’s story in the May [...]
I am worried Spielberg used too much CG in this one. There I said it.
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In the it-was-only-a-matter-of-time-department — test prep gets crowd sourced. Encyclopedias. Travel books. Study notes. Text Books. Now test prep. Forget about learning from other industries, publishers need to start learning from examples within their own industry. Is there such thing as a Facebook app for the LSAT? There should be. The Princeton Review doesn’t [...]
My friends at Live Current have been getting a lot of attention this week after they purchased rights to broadcast cricket. Arrington original wondered if he would remember them at all. A lesson in go big or go home. I thought is was interesting that DestinationHub is a registered trademark for the company. Their business [...]
Wildly Popular ‘Iron Man’ Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film
What do you do when you want to find a business or service in your community? You google it. What do potential authors likely do when looking for a publisher or agent? They google it. If that is true, you would think that major publishers would be competing to be the top search result on [...]
Mathew Ingram pointed to Jeff Jarvis today. The sky is not falling. Stories (like this one from Adage) have the calculus all wrong — news rooms are here to stay, the news assembly line is going to change. He says…
But in this new ecology, I think newsrooms will need to be organized around topics or [...]