September 3, 2005
Welcome
You may have been redirected just now from another blog. This new blog combines two blogs, A Thousand Furnished Rooms, which has been active since March 2004, and a second blog, Ideas in Technology and Publishing, which I wrote from August 2003 to January 2005.
A Thousand Furnished Rooms was a personal blog with a specific focus. Over the last several years, I have been developing narrative nonfiction. I hesitate to call it “memoir,” because, well, that seems too precious to me. “Narrative nonfiction” seems both more accurate and less precious, yet also somehow less limiting to me.
My professional blog, Ideas in Technology and Publishing, focused on the subject matter of my business, New Millennium Publishing. New Millennium is a consulting practice focused on emerging technical issues for publishers — including content management, XML, and digital rights management.
Like its two predecessor blogs, this will be a work in progress. I will post a mix of new materials, recent materials, and past materials that I am revisiting.
I realize that in combining the two blogs, I run the risk of alienating readers who come here expecting one or the other blog. Some of you may only be interested in the entries related to technology and publishing, and some of you may only want to read the more personal entries. To that end, my developer, Aaron Schutzengel, added a “switch” that allows you to choose “personal posts only,” “tech posts only,” or “everything (default).” It seems to work really well, so if you feel strongly about such things, by all means, avail yourself of it.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:50 AM
August 28, 2005
Kurt Cagle on SVG
Kurt Cagle was nice enough to post a transcript of his keynote from SVG Open 2005. There is also an excellent report from the conference on Carto.net.
It's great to see such high-quality interest in a technology that I have fretted about. Again and again.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:20 AM
March 7, 2004
About This Blog and the Author
This blog combines two blogs, A Thousand Furnished Rooms, which has been active since March 2004, and a second blog, Ideas in Technology and Publishing, which I wrote from August 2003 to January 2005.
A Thousand Furnished Rooms was a personal blog with a specific focus. Over the last several years, I have been developing narrative nonfiction. I hesitate to call it "memoir," because, well, that seems too precious to me. "Narrative nonfiction" seems both more accurate and less precious, yet also somehow less limiting to me.
My professional blog, Ideas in Technology and Publishing, focused on the subject matter of my business, New Millennium Publishing. New Millennium is a consulting practice focused on emerging technical issues for publishers -- including content management, XML, and digital rights management.
Like its two predecessor blogs, this will be a work in progress. I will post a mix of new materials, recent materials, and past materials that I am revisiting.
I realize that in combining the two blogs, I run the risk of alienating readers who come here expecting one or the other blog. Some of you may only be interested in the entries related to technology and publishing, and some of you may only want to read the more personal entries. To that end, my developer, Aaron Schutzengel, added a "switch" that allows you to choose "personal posts only," "tech posts only," or "everything (default)." It seems to work really well, so if you feel strongly about such things, by all means, avail yourself of it.
About the Name of the Earlier Blog
The earlier blog's name, A Thousand Furnished Rooms, comes from a favorite poem, "Preludes," by T. S. Eliot. (For an accurate copy of the poem online, please see the copy on Bartelby.com). The specific image is:
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.
The poem is jammed with such wonderful urban imagery ("a lonely cab-horse steams and stamps"), and I love both the image and the sentiment. I still love the poem even though it was swallowed whole by "Cats."
About the Author
My day job is running a small, specialized consulting practice called New Millennium Publishing. In that role, I work with publishers implementing content management and other kinds of electronic publishing technology. I also write quite a bit on these topics for publications such as The Gilbane Report and The Seybold Report, and have co-authored two books.
Prior to running New Millennium Publishing, I held a variety of writing and technical positions, and have been an adjunct writing instructor at a number of Boston area colleges. I have a B.A. and M.A. in writing.
I live in greater Boston with my wife and two sons, and I live and die with the Red Sox.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:04 PM | Comments (1)
