Tag: Publishing
Growing genre of cookbooks for children
A NYT piece explored the growing popularity of cookbooks for tikes. Cookbooks that "dumb-down" recipes for kids or are mainly based on tried-and-true favourites like mac&cheese are being replaced by more...
It's Not Easy Being Green (OR: Bob Costas, You Ca...
It's Not Easy Being Green (OR: Bob Costas, You Can't Handle the Truth!
For the paper snobs of the world, MLN senior editor Brian Ross offers a Few Good Reasons why you should never call SZ 'just' a website.
Newspaper Employment Slips Further
The annual census from American Society of Newspapers Editors revealed some disappointing yet expected news about the current climate at American newspapers: fulltime professional staffs fell by 2,400 in 2007, a drop of 4.4 % to a current total of 52.600. This does not...
Rolling Stone Endorses Obama
The timing of this perfect: just as McCain gets the nod from current President George Bush, Obama gets the high five from that venerable rock & roll publishing institution, Rolling Stone magazine.Has it ever been...
Jail the Journalists!
That seems to be the DOJ position. Where is the NYTimes on this? Why aren't they writing more about it?"Ever since the President's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program was revealed by the New York Times'...
Breakthrough! 40-Hour Laptop Batteries about to s...
Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo -- crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs-- and then do a full day of meetings, using your machine throughout the day and into the night. Imagine doing all this without ever plugging in your computer to...
Iran arrests death penalty opponent; hangings inc...
"DEATH PENALTY-IRAN: Top Campaigner Harassed, Hangings Increase
By Kimia Sanati
Credit:ILNA /Sajad Safari
Emaddedin Baghi
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (IPS) - Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after...
Canadian Harry Potter Publisher to Stop Publishing
The publishing business is a tough one, at the best of times, but 2008 looks to be a difficult year for all involved in the book biz."Raincoast Books, the West Coast company that brought the blockbuster Harry Potter...
We did it...Our 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' P...
We learned late Monday that our 'Just Over 50 and not Dead Yet' panel had been selected as one of the themes to be featured at South by Southwest Interactive (March 2008). They liked the fact that "this idea focuses on a portion of the audience traditionally...
Spider-Man and Captain Planet go online
"More than 40 years after his first appearance on the front of a comic book, Spider-Man has finally embraced the Internet. # Marvel Digital Comics Marvel Comics, the publishing giant which also created the...
SharedBook Offers Recipes For Tactile Communicati...
"At Symblogogy, we are always on the lookout for tools that automate our lives, both personally and professionally.
New Media participants have always had a problem in trying to translate captured digital data to...
FCC, Chicago Meeting & Media consolidation go Moyers
"Once upon a time the Federal Communications Commission — the FCC — was a sleepy bureaucracy on a quiet street in Washington. The FCC is the government body that sets the rules for media. And for a decade now, it's become a citadel of power, swarming with media tycoons,...
Freedom of press was tested this week and failed,...
Update: Subpoena can be viewed via Phoenix News Times HERE (its called Unprecedented grand jury subpoenas)On Thursday (10.18.2007) Via the web and press came out the story by local Newspaper “The Phoenix News...
New U.S. Citizenship Test -- How Do You Score?
"Do you know enough about U.S. history, government and politics to pass the same test that new candidates for citizenship will have to take?
Immigration authorities have just issued the new citizenship test, publishing a final list of 100 questions geared toward making the...
Several papers stop publishing in Myanmar
""Some publications may have been forced to close down because they refused to carry the government's propaganda," he was quoted by AFP as saying on condition of anonymity.
Myanmar's censors always exert tight...
