Publishing: Transformation of the Enterprise at Port 80: Boardwalk

Do web logging, called blogging, in an organized manner, and have your web log always available on a web page. Most use the Blogger publishing system; sites that use Manila, Pitas, and Greymatter are increasingly popular.

Learn more at the Gizmos, Inc., Toolkit section on collaboration, which has a page about setting up a blog at Blogger.com. Learn more about the social activity of blogging here at Port 80's Boardwalk.

Essential free webmaster resources for developing a quality website on a shoestring budget!

In the early years of the Web, most sites were not concerned about sharing data with other sites. Today, the trend is that sites are increasingly interdependent and many rely upon integrating content that originates somewhere else. Such content might include news feeds, events listings, a set of project updates, and even interchange of corporate information. Effective integration usually requires a good deal of effort on the part of the information provider, as well as the recipient of each unique data source.

eBoard - post messages, photos, and links as a personal homepage or place to share with a class or team or family

electronic books

With portable electronic readers like the goReader, students can hold an entire semester's worth of interactive textbooks and materials in a device that weighs less than five pounds.

Rovia, WizeUp, NetLibrary and Versaware all have convert-and-publish deals with assorted textbook publishers. Rovia is building custom websites accessed by a browser plug-in. WizeUp is selling a downloadable version locked to a specific machine.

(Available only in archives you must pay for, which means few will ever see it again. Too bad for us and no profit for Newsweek. Another example of scarcity vs abundance thinking.)

As a common item of communication, artistic expression and celebrity anecdote, the physical object consisting of bound dead trees in shiny wrapper is headed for the antique heap. Its replacement will be a lightning-quick injection of digital bits into a handheld device with an ultrasharp display. Culture vultures and bookworms might cringe at the prospect, but it's as inevitable as page two's following page one. Books are goners, at least as far as being the dominant form of reading.

New Internet-based technologies that promise to replace paper are expected to become more sophisticated and widely used in coming years, possibly posing a large threat to the paper market within 10 years. Already, digital media are challenging newspapers and e-mail is replacing paper for communications in large companies. Paper documents represented 90 percent of organizations' documents in 1995, but that figure is expected to drop to 30 percent by 2005, according to Xplor International, a representative of the document management industry. Although readers enjoy the feel of reading on paper rather than on screen, digital media offers many advantages. Emerging technologies such as Microsoft's ClearType offer to improve the experience of reading on a screen. ClearType's main target is the e-book market. E-books also try to replicate the experience of reading an actual book, and can store thousands of pages that are downloaded over a modem. Meanwhile, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center has developed electronic paper that looks and feels much like a traditional newspaper, but can update information when an electrically charged device is waved over the surface.

In this paper we describe our efforts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory toward realizing an electronic book comprised of hundreds of electronically addressable display pages printed on real paper substrates. Such pages may be typeset in situ, thus giving such a book the capability to be any book. We outline the technology we are developing to bring this about and describe a number of applications that such a device enables.

Fasten your seat belts for some high concept alternative entertainment, created for the "hip and savvy" user. Oddcast.com has secured the rights to over 100 properties including HBO's Sex in the City and The Sopranos along with games, music, applications and webcasts.

This is one of the most entertaining multimedia sites on the net. Be sure to check out "Witness", the human rights section, as well as "Mixer", an application that allows you to edit a motion picture online.

The Internet's first digital children's book, 'Fairy Dreams' by Carol Mclean-Carr.

Digital Living

Delivers continually updated content accessible via the net and by cell phones, pagers and PDAs.

Eager fans can now receive a cell phone alert when concert tickets are going on sale or notice a blinking icon that contains the revised schedule of the Winter X-Games on a Palm Pilot. Is this the next generation of the information age?

Venice is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and a favorite tourist destination for European vacations. Walks Inside Venice is an excellent resource for people planning to visit this magical place. Created by three women who have been Venice guides for the past ten years, it offers suggestions for a wide variety of tours.

The Internet changes the entire dynamics of publishing. When Stephen King's words can be packaged into a PDF file and downloaded by anyone with a computer in a few minutes, one must begin to question what his publisher, Simon & Schuster, is doing to earn its share of the income pie.

In the last half-century, the pace of change in printing and publishing technology has become dynamic. Now changes in technology come about in a matter of years, sometimes even months. And with those changes, the steps in the process of publication may now be controlled, tracked, and subsumed into one continuous electronic system often called digital workflow.

This book is a catalog of the mistakes that I've made while building more than 100 Web sites in the last five years. I wrote it in the hopes that others won't have to repeat those mistakes.

In a society that increasingly rewards specialists and narrowness, Web publishing is one of the few fields left where the generalist is valuable. To make a great site, you need to know a little bit about writing, photography, publishing, Unix system administration, relational database management systems (RDBMS), user interface design, and computer programming. I have thus assumed no specific technical background among my readers and have tried to make the text self-contained.

Journalism will never be the same, as the fourth estate hurries to remain relevant in the online world. "... Many of the best early Websites came from small [newspapers]. But we're not talking about Websites — we're talking about a fundamental change in the industry and in the world."

emerging e-book standards

XML tools, standards, and vocabularies are all maturing, and publishers are making broad commitments not only to XML, but to content management system infrastructures for streamlining the entire publishing lifecycle.

electronic texts

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every story, plot summary, characters, scene synopses, film, TV and audio
performances and original cover art


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