INDEX // mb Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good)

Inhaling

“By any measure, complexity requires depth.”

Frédéric Filloux makes the argument in the MondayNote that journalists need to explain and educate to be effective. There is a pretty good mechanism for doing that — the book — but book publishing needs an upgrade to take advantage of the media cycle for journalists. I bet the Guardian can make this happen.

Testing Blackbird Pie

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Dominic Wilcox

Social Objects: Example Books

From Dare Obasanjo’s post Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol from a Web Developer’s Perspective “The Open Graph Protocol is the first step in allowing Facebook users express relationships with arbitrary social objects.”

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