Monthly Archives: January 2008

Taking Liberalism Back

A 2008 Presidential victory for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will be a triumph for the Democrats, and will offer an opportunity to rebuild the image of the Democrats as progressive pioneers. Tom Waldman’s timely book Not Much Left (forthcoming… Continue reading

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Join the Publish2 Election News Network

Publish2 is organizing a network of newsrooms, journalists, freelancers and network-affiliated bloggers to aggregate the best news coverage of the “Super Tuesday” February 5 U.S. primary elections, leading up to it and after. Publish2 is still in private beta, but we’re going to syndicate everything out via RSS feeds.

Publish2′s web-based bookmarking feature will aggregate bookmarks [...] Continue reading

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Gastronomica Editor interviewed for Utne

An interview with Darra Goldstein appears in the “Great Writing” section of “Utne Blogs,” a section of the Utne Reader’s web site. She discusses, among other things, the origins and evolutions of Gastronomica, and what makes for good food writing…. Continue reading

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Le blog de Revues.org, un an déjà

Le blog de Revues.org, lancé il y a exactement un an sous forme expérimentale, passe à une nouvelle étape.
Blog professionnel destiné aux spécialistes de l’édition, de l’édition électronique, de l’information scientifique et technique, de la documentation scientifique et des sciences humaines, le blog de Revues.org a connu une fréquentation régulière oscillant entre 6000 et 8000 [...] Continue reading

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Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link

In the networked web era, influentials may not be people with a particularly connected temperament or Rolodex, or people who control and influence monopoly distribution channels (e.g. newspapers), but rather people who influence the network by leveraging the most powerful force on the web — the link. People like bloggers, top Diggers, del.icio.us power users, [...] Continue reading

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Simplicity Drives Technology Adoption

I was talking to a newsroom last week about adopting Publish2 as an editorial platform for creating news aggregation features for their website — there was a lot of excitement about sketching a big vision, thinking about all of the possibilities. But in a follow-up email, we held hands around a critical guiding principle — [...] Continue reading

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WSJ.com Remains A Paid Site And Bets On The Value Of Its Niche Audience

Of all the reasons given why Rupert Murdoch decided to keep the WSJ.com paid subscriber wall in place, the one that I find most interesting is that advertisers are willing to pay a premium for WSJ.com’s audience. If the WSJ went free, it would undoubtedly increase its audience substantially, but how valuable would those new [...] Continue reading

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Encre électronique et évolution de l’écriture

A l’occasion de la troisième et passionnante Bouquinosphère, le 18 janvier dernier à Paris, lors du débat “Ecrire avec l’Internet”, il est apparu que l’encre électronique peut permettre d’étudier cette question essentielle de l’évolution de l’é… Continue reading

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The New Female Islamic Consciousness in France

NPR ran a story on today’s Morning Edition entitled “French Women Forge New Islam, Activism” in which Sylvia Poggioli reported on the new female Islamic consciousness in France. On the vanguard of this movement is UC Press author Fadela Amara,… Continue reading

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e-paper enroulable – Le Raedius 3G de Polymer Vision

Le sujet redevenant d’actualité, avec la mise en production du Raedius (anciennement “cellular reader”), de Polymer Vision, et l’annonce de sa sortie mi-2008, voici une vidéo du dispositif, prise en février 2007 par Jean-Jacques Damlamian.Depuis, no… Continue reading

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