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Registration Open for Tools of Change for Publishing Conference '09
Registration is now open for the next Tools of Change for Publishing conference, being held Feb. 9-11, 2009 at the Marriot Marquis Times Square in New York City. From the press release: The third annual TOC Conference will decipher the tools of change for the industry and help cut through the hype in order to reach a more profitable future…
Share Your Success Story (or Lessons Learned from Failure) at TOC 2009
One of the ongoing goals for the TOC Conference is to encourage the sharing of success stories and of the lessons learned from failed experiments and initiatives. For 2009, we're going to try something a bit different to add to the discussion, and we want your help. Tell us about your experience (good or bad!) with a new technology, technique,…
Call for Participation Now Open for TOC 2009
The Call for Participation is now open for the 2009 TOC Conference, Feb. 9-11 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. As usual, we’ll be accepting proposals for 45-minute breakout sessions (or panel discussions), 5-minute "lightning demos", and for longer 3-hour workshop tutorial sessions. For the latter, we’re looking for people who really know their stuff, and are…
Why TOC is an Idea Much Bigger than O'Reilly
One of the reasons we at O'Reilly believe so strongly in what we're doing with TOC is that we see it as something much bigger than ourselves. While we of course value the opportunity to create a context for conversation (whether that's in person, online, or in print), the real payoff is seeing what others do after spending time…
TOC Tutorial DVDs Now Available
DVDs from four of the eight TOC 2008 tutorials are now in-stock. If you attended the conference, check your email for information on how to save 50%. If you missed TOC 2008, you can still save 30% on the DVDs using discount code TOCD3 (and sign up for the conference newsletter to make sure you don't miss TOC 2009)….
The (Online) World of the Economist
In New York for the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, I had the opportunity to speak with Wendy Elman, the VP of Marketing at The Economist’s economist.com. Ms. Elman’s background is in book publishing, and she joined The Economist in July 2007. Ms. Elman commented that the driving goals of The Economist are to earnestly seek change, while…
Video of Tim O'Reilly and Kathy Sierra Now Posted
Video of the conversation between Tim O'Reilly and Kathy Sierra that we showed Monday at TOC 2008 is now posted…..
Video from TOC 2007 posted at Blip TV
Check out video from most of last year's keynotes, now posted at blip: In related news, we'll be making DVDs of four of this year's tutorials available for sale soon after the conference. I'll post more details next week….
TOC Attendees by Geography
UPDATE: The maps (click on the images below) are now updated with the same numbers shown Monday morning at the conference: these are preliminary numbers, and we have had more than a hundred additional registrations, but these are relevant nonetheless. When we held the first TOC conference last year in San Jose, it was meant to signal that many of…
TOC 2008 Just Around the Corner
On the Radar backchannel, Make's Phil Torrone shared a link about how author Paulo Coelho has "pirated" his own book using file sharing, with surprising results: [U]ploading the Russian translation of “The Alchemist” made his sales in Russia go from around 1,000 per year to 100,000, then a million and more. The use of technology like digitization, file sharing,…