Man Is The Media.
FerroGate is charting the cultural repercussions of new media and technology.
By Martin Ferro-Thomsen.
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Here are a few personal reflections on New Media Days that ended a few hours ago. I should add that I of course only had partial experience as I couldn’t be everywhere. Also, full disclosure, Issuu (of which I am a co-founder) is sponsoring the conference, but these are my personal remarks as just an [...]
I’m at New Media Days, listening to a talk about ebooks with
JØRGEN BALLE OLESEN (DK) direktør / SAXO.com – The Retailer
LOTTE GARBERS (DK) formand / Dansk Forfatterforening – The Author
JAKOB LARSEN (DK) Supply Chain Manager / Lindhardt & Ringhof – The Publisher
Sorry for the lame title but it made you look, didn’t it?
Below is an interactive Shelf that just came out of the Issuu labs. It syncs with a folder in My Library on Issuu and updates whenever I add more stuff. It’s perfect for showcasing your archive or a collection of bookmarks.
You would think that the makers of Zinepal read this blog, but I’m sure it’s just coincidental: A while ago I wrote about similar services FeedJournal and Tabbloid and called for a somewhat different model: Using technology to repackage, edit, and re-distribute blog posts, instead of ‘just’ offering PDF dumps via email.
Now Zinepal does that, [...]
A while ago I did an interview with Monocle (together with their Danish correspondent Kim Flyvbjerg). The print version of the new issue is now out, and, eh.., let’s say they edited it a bit. Think quote-size interview.
As happy as I am with any mention by established media, I thought it would be good to [...]
For non-bloggers it must seem a little weird, all this preoccupation with how many comments your latest post got (or didn’t get).
But the comment is the unrivaled currency of social media. It’s the proof that someone listens, that someone cares about what you said.
In essence the comment is the evidence that the Internet, unlike all [...]
“When magazine lovers get nostalgic about print, they cite the feel of flipping pages, the shock of seeing an amazing layout and the physicality of being able to hold something in your hands. Maybe a gadget like Amazon’s Kindle can compete with the old-fashioned ink-on-paper experience, but for our money — which, in this instance, [...]
Recently both Google Reader and Delicious offered easy syndication, or ‘re-sharing’ you might call it, of content. I’ve been doing this using RSS feeds for quite some time, but now it seems that finally the need for easily sharing across multiple platforms dawned on the two giants.
Just a quick post about the new Posterous & Issuu integration announced today. If you are a Posterous user, all you need to do is navigate to a cool Issuu publication and hit the bookmarklet in your browser (get it here).
Yesterday my catch-all Gmail account reached the 92 % watermark, and I found it alarming. I had been looking time and again for effective ways to clean up, but none seemed viable as I had over 60,000 emails on file.
Judging from what I learned online, there seems to be two ways of doing this. Either [...]
Below is the video of Bruce Sterling’s fantastic session at the Reboot 11 conference. It’s very satirical, grotesque even, and yet pretty thought provoking. I think it was the best presentation at the conference, and his 10 years forecast resonated well with my own sense of where we’re going: “Dark Euphoria”.
File this under ‘(forced) radical transparency’. UK newspapers have taken upon themselves to publish the unedited expenses claims of every MP. Guardian has made the claims publicly available for crowdsourcing, that is, allowing anyone to sift through the vast material (457,153 pages so far) looking for entries that “deserves further scrutiny”.
Try it here. The interface is [...]
