In June, Microsoft announced that the next version of Internet Explorer, its widely-used operating system,…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Breaking the bank
In April 2009 I wrote a post, "Curation nation", that looked at what publishers, booksellers…
Missing the boat
At the end of March 2009 I posted "Publishing's real problem", which considered whether consolidations…
Count the ways
The third section of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto includes a chapter, "How do books get…
Common ground
A couple of weeks back, Mike Masnick of Techdirt posted "Bringing Artists & Entrepreneurs Together…
Open data
As part of her role at Bowker, Laura Dawson has been doing some interesting work…
Slow down
I'm continuing to write a set of Sunday posts that revisit in turn the ideas…
An inability to pay
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to hear Joe Karaganis of the American Assembly speak at…
Ongoing conversations
Last week, I linked to some coverage of a public conversation about metadata that Laura…
The library within us
[What follows is my prepared talk for this week's Books in Browsers conference, taking place…