Young and Old together

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.

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Posted on 13 Jun 2006 around 8am • Tagged with: Books | Publishing | Permanent link to this article

Beautiful Evidence

Edward Tufte’s new book, Beautiful Evidence will soon be available

You can see the news about this on his web site here. Edward Tufte ‘self-publishes’ his work and the results are superb. This new book sets out the issues surrounding the methods that need to be used to present convincing evidence.

Further information about this book can be found here

Posted on 07 Jun 2006 around 8pm • Tagged with: Books | Design | Publishing | Permanent link to this article

The Last Days of Publishing

Author Tom Engelhardt interviews himself about his novel.

Does this predict things to come? It isn’t really clear who the author is being interviewed by.

The interview is here

Posted on 07 Jun 2006 around 10am • Tagged with: Books | Noticed | Publishing | Permanent link to this article