By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses The Amanda Project and the challenges posed by translating it into foreign languages and transferring it into foreign markets. The challenges are not so much issues of translation, but of transference. How do you take a relatively open-platform, Web-based story, that is itself organic and changing, and transfer it into another culture and …
SXSW Digerati: Publishing Assassins or Saviors?
By Edward Nawotka Q: What do Israeli Mossad agents on a not-so-secret mission to Dubai and the digerati at SXSW have in common? A: Both groups are assassins disguised as geeks wearing thick black plastic glasses. SXSW: I think saw the future in Austin: It was wearing black plastic glasses. This year’s SXSWi — short for South-by-Southwest Interactive — gave …
Day Two at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference, New York
By Hannah Johnson The second day of TOC 2010 saw an increase in attendees over 2009 and packed a full program of over 50 speakers into a single day. Speakers included experts from within the publishing community as well as people working in other areas of technology, media and business. Some of the main issues discussed at the conference included …