On episode 17 of MediaHacks Mitch Joel and crew entertained ideas about what a book is. Joel took the literal position. Hugh McGuire defended a Platonist ideal. I tend to agree with Mitch on this one but the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that it is the wrong question.
On the [...]
Updates June 13:
Malle Vallik on Listening to Customers
Devon Persing’s Notes from BookCamp
Why Margins Are No Longer Wide Enough for Marginalia from Datachondria
Annick Press On Asking the Right Questions
Life Goes Pop — Again for Kevin McFaul
The Wilfrid Laurier roundup 1 2 3
Mark Medley’s notes from BookCamp at the National Post
Updated June 10:
James Caldwell recaps BookCampTO at [...]
BookCamp is two days away. In this space there has been radio silence about the unconference since my initial aspirational post back in December — mainly because any and all extra time and attention has been directed towards the BookCampTO wiki — that is to say I haven’t had much extra time at all.
But with [...]
Last month Jeremy Ettinghausen at PenguinBooksUK put together an unconference called Bookcamp. I was dying to attend. Alas it was in London so I stayed home. The intrepid Hugh McGuire flew to the UK and reported back how brilliant it was to have book industry people, creative types, and technologists converge to discuss the future [...]