BTB #192: Great Expectations For A Mobile Workplace

Oct 31, 2010 | Digital Transformation, Podcasts

Ahead of his presentation to a one-day workshop co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS, Nathan Clevenger, enterprise editor at Smartphone Magazine, tells Chris Kenneally how the mobile environment is driving change in publishing. “Mobile applications expose a lot more...

BTB #191: Putting the ‘Social’ in Media

Oct 24, 2010 | Podcasts

Web 2.0 brought a more interactive relationship between creating and consuming content than ever seen before. That interaction is shaping our lives and changing our media in sometimes fascinating, and sometimes threatening ways. Alexandra Samuel joins Chris Kenneally...

Warm-up for Miami Book Fair

Oct 17, 2010 | Best of VOC, Podcasts

On November 20, at the Miami Book Fair, CCC’s Chris Kenneally will interview Stephen Rattner, author of the just-released “Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry,” which the New York Times calls, “required...

BTB #190: A Romance With New Media

Oct 12, 2010 | Podcasts

During a podcast tutorial led by Chris Kenneally at the recent Novelists, Inc. conference, NINC President-elect Donna Fletcher agreed to an impromptu interview. She took the opportunity to explain why novelists in romance and thriller genres are early adopters of new...

BTB #189: Mobile & STM: An App-Ready Environment

Oct 10, 2010 | Digital Transformation, Podcasts

As cell phones, smart phones, netbooks and tablets become essential conduits to information for a mobile and collaborative global research community, they are beginning to shape the future direction of scientific and technical communication. Ahead of his presentation...

BTB #188: At Frankfurt “StoryDrive,” A Copyright Dialogue

Oct 4, 2010 | Best of VOC, Copyright, International, Podcasts

As the Frankfurt Book Fair prepares to open, the global publishing industry continues to feel its way into new content territory, where text meets film, music, and even video games. In its debut year, “StoryDrive” – a “professional meeting place for the international...

BTB #187: iPad, Kindle and Books: Rating Usability

Oct 3, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts

Usability. It’s a fundamental issue for content design in the digital environment. Think of it as the genetic code for a digital asset, whether that’s a Website, an e-book, or a smart phone. If there are bad sequences in the DNA, things start to go very wrong. Two...

BTB #186: Smartphone Apps: Good Science and Good Design

Sep 26, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts

In her work as a leading developer of smartphone and tablet applications, SiNae Pitts never strays far from her background as a research scientist. Her clients include top STM journals, and her designs reflect a willingness to experiment that she acquired in the lab....

BTB #185: Report on the Book Business: 1450

Sep 19, 2010 | Podcasts

It is the dawn of a new age in publishing, and there is no such thing as a sure bet when it comes to business. How do you market books? How do you make money as a publisher or author? What do you do if someone pirates your work? Great questions for 2010 and for 1450....

BTB #184: Are Smartphones Headed to the Voting Booth?

Sep 14, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, Podcasts

In 2004, political campaigns and the press buzzed over “blogging”; in 2008, the technology of the moment was YouTube, providing CNN with debate questions and at least one candidate with a one-way ticket home. For 2012, predicts Lee Rainie, founder and director of Pew...