One of the effects of blogging about the Tools of Change conference was that the traffic to this blog, which normally toddles along at an almost non-existent a charmingly amateurish level, increased by about two thousand percent in the second half of February. Looking at referral logs and responding to a few comments and emails has brought me into contact with some interesting people. So, in the absence of original blogging, here are some suggestions for blogs to visit.
- Kieron Smith is Managing Director at Retail8, which is some kind of bookselling skunk works. His new blog Koob is currently counting down the days to the beta launch of their Bookrabbit service. Kieron is an acquaintance of mine — although we’ve never worked together, our career paths have run close at several points — and I’m fascinated to see what he’s up to.
- I’ve also begun reading the Exact Editions blog, which is run by Adam Hodgkin, who it transpires was also at Tools of Change, though we didn’t connect there.
- Finally, Electric Alphabet is a look at writing and publishing in the digital age, with some interesting thoughts on RSS, recommendation engines and freeconomics, among other topics.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew // Mar 5, 2008 at 9:47 am
George,
I’ve just re-caught up with your blog, and am inspired by the Tools of Change observations. Do you think the whole idea(l) of static content is dead? The physical book originally as receptacle for storing information in place of memory, and now we have other means?
Interested to know your thoughts,
Andrew
2 MistrTim // Mar 8, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hey George,
It’s an interesting process.. following links to Darren’s blog and then to yours. I sometimes imagine that cartoon “Family Matters” I think it was called, where the young boy’s journey during the day is shown by a tracing of his meandering route.
Thanks for adding more destinations to my journey for this day :-)
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