I love the quotation attributed to Zhou en Lai — on being asked what he thought of the French Revolution, he replied “Its too early to say”. I love it because its so cautious, so careful and so definitively correct, but also engaged (“Mr Zhou: You mean the French Revolution is still happening?”). Its always going to be too early to say.
I feel like reaching the same conclusion about the extent to which publishing is now about building communities, … Keep Reading
Opera, the browser, continues to impress. As does Google Docs. But there are one or two issues to think about before you chuck out Firefox and ceremonially burn your .doc documents.
First off, Google Docs does not support Opera. On the Google Docs systems requirements page they say “Google Docs is not supported, and probably won’t run on (Opera).” Well it sort of runs on Opera on my Mac but only in a ‘view’ mode. I guess this … Keep Reading
Frank Anton, CEO of B2B publishing company Hanley Wood has produced a devastating list of 10 deadly sins that lead B2B companies into a spiral of purgatory in a challenging economic environment. The list is at Folio. Technophobia (along with “inferiority, complacency, coziness, stinginess, cluelessness, disorganization”) is one of the sins:
… Keep ReadingTrade publishers that have underinvested in electronic media are now playing catch-up—and are paying the price, Anton said in reference to his ‘technophobia’ sin. Hanley Wood’s online advertising
Earlier in the afternoon (at 13:05:22) someone in the UK bought a subscription to Quest Bulgaria one precise second before someone in France bought an annual subscription to Le Monde Diplomatique (at 13:05:23). Google tells me that there are just over 31.5 million seconds a year, and if we suppose that each subscription is worth £16.877 on average ……. I make that something over £500 million a year when we are handling subs every second throughout the year.
Dream on! … Keep Reading
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