According to TechCrunch:
Digg is looking more and more like the newspaper of the web, and is challenging even the New York Times on page views (Digg surpassed rival Slashdot long ago).
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging and RSS. Rather than editors deciding which news items go on the home page, the users do. How?
Posted on 23 Jun 2006 around 5pm • Tagged with: Noticed | Publishing | Permanent link to this article
Amsterdam has been chosen to be the World Book Capital in 2008.
A selection committee, comprised of representatives of UNESCO and the three main international organizations representing the book industry chose Amsterdam because of its large range of activities relating to books and reading.
Posted on 22 Jun 2006 around 9am • Tagged with: Books | Noticed | Publishing | Permanent link to this article
I heard a podcast with the voice of Eddie Freeman, the creative director of O’Reilly Books.
The idea of putting an engraving of an animal on many of the O’Reilly books was her idea. She had a book of engravings in her home and used that to seed the idea with her publishing colleagues.
Posted on 14 Jun 2006 around 8am • Tagged with: Publishing | Permanent link to this article
My local Borders book shop carries books on HTML 4.01 right next door to latest books on AJAX.
It just opens up all sorts of questions:
How on earth can we keep up with all of these different ways of putting stuff onto the web?
Is there really a market for such a broad range of old and new web techniques?
Why would anyone buy a book on HTML 4.01 now in 2006? I suppose it has its place, but frankly, if you are new to this, then don’t buy anything that has a version number in the title.
Posted on 13 Jun 2006 around 7am • Tagged with: Books | Publishing | Permanent link to this article
According to China’s People’s Daily Online China has for the first time published a book online before it is published on paper.
The publishing house, which edited and published the e-book "Not Angel, Not Devil," will publish the paper version 90 days after the e-book’s launch.
Posted on 12 Jun 2006 around 9pm • Tagged with: Books | Publishing | Permanent link to this article
