February 13, 2008
We're Moving!
Well, sort of.
What I am actually doing is launching a new blog and practice as part of the Gilbane Group (press release here and the new blog, XML Technologies and Content Strategies, here). The new blog and practice are collaborations with my long-time Gilbane colleagues Mary Laplante and Leonor Ciarlone.
As we launch the new blog at Gilbane, I am transitioning this one to a personal blog, much like the one I had before, A Thousand Furnished Rooms. I will be discussing writing, literature, baseball, and life, not necessarily in that order.
I have been at this blog thing for more than four years, and it has always been an evolution. I started with a technology blog, Ideas in Technology and Publishing, then started A Thousand Furnished Rooms. Somewhere in there I briefly had a politics blog (an ugly undertaking in a nasty little world). Also somewhere in there, I began blogging at Gilbane's primary blog, folded the politics blog (oh, happy day!) and combined Ideas in Technology and Publishing and A Thousand Furnished Rooms into this blog.
So now I evolve again. If you want to read about content management, XML, and publishing technologies and strategies, check out the new Gilbane blog (Atom feed here). If you want to hear about more nebulous topics, stick around here. You are more than welcome.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:37 PM
November 23, 2007
Movable Type Weirdness
So I republished my blog and now I have new design for my home page, out of the blue, but the rest of my pages look like they use to. What gives?
I haven't had a chance to look into this yet, but if you have some quick ideas, let me know.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:00 PM
October 25, 2007
All the News that's Fit to Click?
eMarketer says that, "It’s wake-up time for the publishing industry. Like it or not, readers and advertisers are turning to the Internet, and print brands must follow." The numbers are compelling.
You can read some of the summary and purchase the report here.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:52 AM
October 18, 2007
100 Best Blogs
A list, from PC Magazine. Gosh, I don't recognize most of these. Some blogger I am.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:48 PM
June 1, 2007
Center for Future Civic Media
I get an excellent weekly news and analysis roundup, Outsell/EPS Insights (subscription required). This week they alerted me that the Knight Foundation had handed out its first News Challenge winners.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, top young computer programmers and bloggers, and MTV are among the 25 first-year winners of the Knight News Challenge, announced at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in Miami. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded the contest with $25 million over five years to help lead journalism into its digital future. The first-year winners all proposed innovative ideas for using digital news and information to build and bind community in specific geographic areas.
That led me to check out the folks at MIT who were awarded the biggest chunk, $5M to fund a new Center for Future Civic Media. The idea is intriguing to me, as it seems to go beyond the dreary notion of citizen journalists to instead, "helping to provide people with the necessary skills to process, evaluate, and act upon the knowledge in circulation, civic media ensures the diversity of inputs and mutual respect necessary for democratic deliberation."
They need to work on their "about page," though. Whatever "Future Civic Media" might become, I doubt it includes tar.gz files.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:32 PM
April 11, 2007
Can Blogs Persist in the Way Scholarly Information Does?
Jon Udell interviews Geoffrey Builder, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef, and a veteran in the scholarly technology world. They discuss CrossRef's critical role in the scholarly information world, how Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) work, and what this kind of technology means for blogs and other content.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:16 PM
November 6, 2006
Wikipedia Woes
Perhaps another reason Wikipedia should consider an authentication process for authors.
This is likely a solvable problem, though hackers are determined folks. But the more I think about Wikipedia authoring, the more I think it makes sense for authors to be authenticated.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 3:15 PM
October 12, 2006
Simon & Schuster’s eBook Blog
TeleRead highlighted a new eBook-related blog at Simon & Schuster.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:58 PM
September 21, 2006
Welcome Back, Peter Gammons
Peter Gammons returned to action for ESPN last night. Gammons, the Hall of Fame baseball writer, had a brain aneurysm in June, and the baseball season hasn't been the same without him. Gammons was the baseball beat writer for the Boston Globe when I was a kid and up through the time I flirted with the idea of being a sportswriter. I covered sports for my college newspaper and was a stringer for the New Bedford Standard-Times during a time when the Globe had an amazing array of sportswriting talent, including Gammons, Bob Ryan, Leigh Montville, and Ray Fitzgerald. Even among them, Gammons was in a class by himself. He created a feature that is now a staple of many sports pages, a weekend "notebook" of short items that runs a full page in the broadside Globe to this day (now written by the Globe's current beat writer, Gordon Edes). I can draw a line from that kind of short-form collection to today's blog. Gammons' blog (for ESPN Insider subscribers unfortunately) has been dormant since his illness, but he does have a new column up (and it's free!).
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:21 AM
June 27, 2006
Blog or Perish?
Ernie Landante of Novita Issue Communications has a podcast interview with Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, who wrote the recent study about blogging, Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere.
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June 14, 2006
Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere
Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg discusses a new study, Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere. It offers "advice from established bloggers," and focuses on business blogs. I have only skimmed it, but it looks quite good. It's a pretty big PDF download (1.3MB). Hey, maybe they should blog about it!
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:36 PM
