It's back-to-school week across much of the east coast of the United States, but for…
Author: Brian O'Leary
The bleeding edge
Yesterday, I posted about the release of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, now available in digital,…
The owner’s manual
A year and a half ago, Hugh McGuire approached me about including a version of…
The owner’s manual
A year and a half ago, Hugh McGuire approached me about including a version of…
Real-world data
BookNet Canada (BNC), "the not-for-profit agency responsible for driving technology innovation for Canadian publishers, distributors and…
Real-world data
BookNet Canada (BNC), "the not-for-profit agency responsible for driving technology innovation for Canadian publishers, distributors and…
A latency issue
From time to time, I’ve described piracy as “the consequence of a bad API”. In…
A sense of purpose
Dave Winer, whose pioneering work brought us things like RSS 2.0 and blogs, maintains "Scripting…
Little things matter
The New York Times' coverage of Amazon's cloud computing ambitions reminded me of a Business…
Shooting first
Earlier this week techdirt's Mike Masnick reported on successful efforts by the U.K.-based Federation Against…