2011 October

Entries from October 20th, 2011

Facing the conundrum: reports from the e-book field

October 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0

I often start my presentations on e-books by sharing a scene from Anchorman, the Will Ferrell movie. In a key scene, two anchor teams from rival channels start to “battle it out.” Just as they are about to begin, another channel’s team shows up and joins the fight, and then another, and another. It seems [...]

Good design doesn’t just happen

October 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Design

The evening that the death of Steve Jobs was announced, I was in a hotel finalizing my slides for a presentation ironically called “What Librarians Can Learn from Apple.” As I watched some of the news coverage of his death, read the tributes online at sites like Wired, and saw comments scrolling through my Twitter [...]

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