Another week comes to an end and once again I offer up items I’ve stumbled upon over the past few days — some are so-called news, others are more or less just stuff you might find interesting, but all are somehow or the other related to this thing we currently call publishing.
Anthologize and “One Week, One Tool”
The tool is cool– the process of creating the tool? Even cooler!
From the Anthologize website:
Anthologize is a
free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform
for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog,
import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within
Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a
single volume for export in several formats, including–in this
release–PDF, ePUB, TEI.
From Dan Cohen’s blog: “Thoughts on One Week, One Tool“
If you haven’t already done so, you should first read the
many excellent reports from those who participated in One Week | One
Tool (and watched it from afar). One Week | One Tool was an intense
institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities that
strove to convey the Center for History and New Media’s knowledge about
building useful scholarly software. As the name suggests, the
participants had to conceive, build, and disseminate their own tool in
just one week. To the participants’ tired voices I add a few thoughts
from the aftermath.
#FF (click here for a list of the folks involved with “1 Week 1 Tool” and their twitter IDs)
Surveying the Digital Future
At the New York Times Bits Blog, Claire Cain Miller reports on the latest findings from the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School’s “Surveying the Digital Future” report. Turns out most people are cheap and lazy. Find more accurate quotes below:
Internet users overwhelmingly do not want to pay for access to Web sites that they already view free, yet half said they never clicked on Web ads and 70 percent called Internet advertising annoying. Still, just over half said they would rather see ads than pay to see Web sites.
From the study:
- Internet impact on traditional retail declines — 61 percent of Internet users said that online purchasing has reduced their buying in traditional retail stores — down from 69 percent in 2008.
- Top 10 online purchases — 59 percent of Internet users said they purchase books or clothes online, followed by gifts (55 percent), travel (53 percent), electronics/appliances (47 percent), videos (46 percent), computers or peripherals (41 percent), software or games (40 percent), CDs (40 percent), and products for hobbies (38 percent).
#FF Follow New York Times’ Bits Blogger Claire Cain Miller on Twitter: @clairecm
(Ironically, the Center for the Digital Future does not appear to have a Twitter account listed anywhere on their site–which is copyrighted ©2006.)
More Researchy Goodness from Pew Internet’s Mobile Access 2010 Report
- Taken together, 59% of American adults now go online wirelessly using either a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51% of Americans who did so at a similar point in 2009
- The use of mobile data applications has grown dramatically over the last year, even as overall cell phone ownership has remained steady
- Although young adults have the highest levels of mobile data application use among all age groups, utilization of these services is growing fast among 30-49 year olds. Compared with a similar point in 2009, cell owners ages 30-49 are significantly more likely to use a range of mobile data applications on a handheld device.
#FF Pew Internet on Twitter: @pew_internet
Quote of the Week:
“Apple declined to comment on Monday, while Amazon could not be contacted.” ~ Financial Times reporting on e-book pricing investigation by state of Connecticut.
Just makes me feel a little better knowing that not even the Financial Times can get a hold of an actual person at Amazon.
#FF Financial Times on Twitter: @ft
Geek Discrimination – No eBooks Allowed.
Nick Bilton gets nixed from what was apparently NOT AN INTERNET CAFE, promting me to immediately think of Snoopy being tossed from the library. (That’s just how my mind works.)
#FF Nick Bilton on Twitter: @NickBilton
Enjoy the clip AND your weekend!