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Zebra Red: Google Wave and peer-to-peer publishing
http://www.zebrared.com/2009/05/google-wave-and-peer-to-peer-publishing.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Friday, 29 May 2009. Google Wave and peer-to-peer publishing. This is fascinating. An example of how the hierarchy of peer-to-peer publishing can disintegrate almost entirely and yet serve a far wider purpose than is currently the case. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs. Books as part of the problem. How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card. So is this format-shifting of a ...
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Zebra Red: Dan Hind on coalitional publishing
http://www.zebrared.com/2012/04/dan-hind-on-coalitional-publishing.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Tuesday, 24 April 2012. Dan Hind on coalitional publishing. Here's an interesting idea: coalitional publishing. Another example of bringing the market to where the customer already finds him- or herself instead of requiring the latter to make the effort of moving towards the former? As Dan points out:. The Advantages of Coalitional Publishing. People who are regular readers of openDemocracy. Won’t d...
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Zebra Red: "Books are almost standing in the way of what publishing is becoming now"
http://www.zebrared.com/2009/10/books-are-almost-standing-in-way-of.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Saturday, 31 October 2009. Books are almost standing in the way of what publishing is becoming now". A video interview between peers on the subject of how books are rapidly getting in the way of the basic aim of good publishing. That is to say, aggregating authors for interested readers and aggregating readers for interesting authors. So how about this as a definition of a book? A plague of ISPs. The BBC ...
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Zebra Red: On aggregating, harvesting and republishing existing blogs
http://www.zebrared.com/2009/04/on-aggregating-harvesting-and.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Wednesday, 15 April 2009. On aggregating, harvesting and republishing existing blogs. What's this post all about then? As I said yesterday, YourMagz is beginning to look like a good place to start. Here, the interested parties in question have decided to set up uniform blogging platforms with differing aims in each case - but similar problems. Blogging, at its best, involves highly individual voices s...
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Zebra Red: On folkbildningsidealet
http://www.zebrared.com/2010/03/on-folkbildningsidealet.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Saturday, 13 March 2010. A "profoundly democratic vision of universal learning and education"? More on the subject of a new Alexandria here. Thanks to John Naughton. As always) for the link. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs. Books as part of the problem. How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card. Do the words devil, sell and soul come to mind here? The BBC has been/was an i...
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Zebra Red: How Apps can provide that immersive reading experience (and save the hyperlinked intelligences we covet so much)
http://www.zebrared.com/2010/03/how-apps-can-provide-that-immersive.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Monday, 1 March 2010. How Apps can provide that immersive reading experience (and save the hyperlinked intelligences we covet so much). So is there any way out? I do hope so. From John Naughton today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs. Books as part of the problem. How to install Easy Peasy on a bootable 8GB SDHC card. Do the words devil, sell and soul come to mind here? It can be done ...
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Zebra Red: E-books without DRM? So is this format-shifting of a kind?
http://www.zebrared.com/2012/04/e-books-without-drm-so-is-this-format.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Friday, 27 April 2012. So is this format-shifting of a kind? It can be done. Tor, of Tom Doherty Associates, will shortly be selling its entire backlist free of DRM. How important is this? Well, as Tor itself explains. Format-shifting ( of a kind, that is. Doesn't have to be a dirty word, now, does it? Tor itself is big enough to make a difference, too:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs.
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Betraying sex workers | Liberal Conspiracy
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/01/11/betraying-sex-workers
9:02 am - January 11th 2009. In any discussion that takes place these days about prostitution and other forms of sex work it’s virtually guaranteed that at some point in the debate either the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) or the International Union of Sex Workers ( IUSW. Or indeed both, will be cited by someone as being the authentic voice of those working in the industry. Among others. But then, as the IUSW is a recognised branch of the GMB. But as this discussion. Over at the F Word. Are the ...
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Zebra Red: "A vault of darkness"
http://www.zebrared.com/2010/05/vault-of-darkness.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Wednesday, 19 May 2010. A vault of darkness". An interesting phrase from Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, in this report on the imminent paywall the Times is going to have to shortly deal with. Rusbridger goes on to say:. He believed openness to and collaboration with the wider internet "ecosystem" were key assets in future journalism. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A plague of ISPs.
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Zebra Red: Distribution is where the money lies
http://www.zebrared.com/2009/04/distribution-is-where-money-lies.html
Black white red all over (or defining a publishing and distribution model for progressive politics). Tuesday, 21 April 2009. Distribution is where the money lies. I touched on this subject here. Where the thesis was pragmatism. The Guardian now trashes all options which involve paid content models in a gloomy picture of the future of online newspaper publishing. These days we're absolutely used to paying for the access; we're not looking any more to pay for the films or articles themselves. If people get...
