Who wins the e-book wars?
Image by oskay via Flickr The recent e-book dispute between Amazon and Macmillan is far from over. Macmillan books, both e-book and traditional paper, are still unavailable at time of this writing on...
View ArticleRandom House sides with Amazon, e-book readers on pricing
Image via Wikipedia It appears Random House is not eager to go to an agency model or to delay e-book releases. A poster on the MobileRead forums reported on comments at the American Bookseller...
View ArticleWordCamp Miami – February 20, 2010
WordCamp Miami is in two weeks, and I’ll be one of the speakers. I’ll walk through True/Slant’s editorial workflow, take your questions, and explore some of the customizations we’ve made to WordPress...
View ArticleAh, Vancouver, what a city!
If you watch the 2010 Winter Olympic Games on TV this month, you’ll see a lot of Vancouver, Canada. Let me warn you now – nothing you see on TV or online can possibly do it justice. This wonderful city...
View ArticleFrom Crazy Canucks to Proud Canadians
It’s only fair that the first Olympic gold medal won by a Canadian at a Canadian games goes to a skier. 30 years ago the Crazy Canucks became Canada’s skiing heroes. I remember watching the Lake Placid...
View ArticleWordPress DOWN: WordPress.com experiencing an outage
Image via CrunchBase The hosted blogging and website services of WordPress.com are suffering some kind of outage this hour. Twitter reports indicate people are getting blank pages or pages are not...
View ArticleWordCamp Miami Wrap-up
I attended WordCamp Miami on Saturday – my first official WordCamp – and it was a lot of fun, very informative, and I met some really smart people who design, develop and use WordPress. I also had the...
View ArticleIs Canada Olympic hockey gold beer controversy just another stupid media...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Rather than focusing on the sport, some media outlets this morning chose to create or flame a controversy apparently started by reporters – including an AP reporter...
View ArticleCurating and filtering blog post comments with WordPress and AJAX
Whether to allow comments on a post can be a controversial subject – if you allow them, they can turn into a mess of irrelevance, or worse. On the other hand, comments can promote engagement,...
View ArticleHands on: Apple’s iPad – Kindle for iPad – and e-book pricing
Don’t count Amazon out yet. I’ll tell you why… Here are my first impressions of iPad as a Kindle and iPhone owner. I set up my Apple iPad on Saturday and imported all my iPhone apps, and the Kindle app...
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