O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.
Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.
It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.
I had a lot of fun putting this presentation together, and not just because it was an excuse to play with toys. It was also nice to see the PlasticLogic device up close, even though I suspect the final marketable product may be quite different from these early prototypes.
Keith and I beat pretty hard [...]
Geeks love raw data, so I couldn’t resist a text dump of all #toc tweets that occurred during the conference.
Here’s the quick visualization I threw together (warning, it loads very slowly):
It skips any images that are broken or any that were listed as having the Twitter default icon. For some reason the raw data [...]
I’m not sure I can bear to watch myself onscreen, but O’Reilly is putting up videos from TOC at a rapid clip. Here’s our panel session:
I’m not a huge fan of panels as an audience member and I think our practice session the day before was better than what we did on stage, but we [...]
(Bookworm traffic before and after Tools of Change keynote. More metrics)
To celebrate TOC I’m announcing an early prototype of epubjs: a pure Javascript ePub reader. The entire application is only 11K (plus 53K for jQuery 1.3).
This is a pretty rough release, still very messy, but I’m hoping to evolve it into a lightweight reader that authors or publishers could add to their websites with minimal [...]
I’ll be presenting as part of a panel at the 2009 Tools of Change conference:
CJ Rayhill (Safari Books Online), Travis Alber (BookGlutton), Aaron Miller (BookGlutton.com), Liza Daly (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Ben Vershbow (Institute for the Future of the Book), Dave Gray (XPLANE)
11:35am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
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O’Reilly Media will be posting a complete recording of the presentation, but in the meantime I’ve posted the slides from the webcast, “What publishers need to know about digitization” on Slideshare.
Thanks to everyone who attended and especially to those who asked so many excellent questions.
What publishers need to know about digitization
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Over on Tools of Change there’s a post of mine discussing the so-called “analog hole” as it applies to digital books. It was a fun article to write, especially the hands-on part. I used Google’s OCRopus open-source OCR software, which was a little impenetrable to someone outside of the machine-learning community but did a good [...]