Kudos to the MPA for top-notch content at yesterday’s technology summit. Here are my 5 unanswered questions about digital magazines: Is the Workflow Sustainable? Engagement is the key to compelling content for edit and ads. I am encouraged that magazines like Wired are using their print staffs to do the tablet edition (per Creative Director [...]

Fred Brooks, computer industry rockstar, regaled 200 geek disciples at Etsy last night with stories about why team design doesn’t work. Brooks wrote a classic book called The Mythical Man-Month about how putting more engineers on a project slows it down paradoxically. In his new book, The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist, [...]

A new Razorfish report on how digital content thrives today concludes that content must be nimble and structure helps make it so. Check out the full report at http://nimble.razorfish.com/publication/?m=11968&l=1 – and don’t miss the “capabilities that can help” within many of the sections that lists technologies to make this happen and appendix with semantic tools. [...]

At today’s Publishing Point meetup at Random House, Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) spoke on the merging of content and technology and argued that content should be liquid and lubricated. See the video at http://publishingpoint.ning.com/video/part-19-fred-wilson-partner-at – my summary is below. Future of Content – Liquid First, he thinks big media companies will do well because [...]

At TEDxEast “Play, Dream, Create” on Friday, Chris Anderson (TED Curator) made a surprise visit to talk on Crowd Accelerated Learning. This is the game-changing theory about social evolution: How we improve when we share with one another. He said people are challenged by watching great people and wanting to do better, and this is [...]

In post calling for e-book standards, the author tries the same e-book on 3 different devices, gets different results. Favorite line: “I know very little about computer programming ….But I know a fair amount about being a customer, and I know it shouldn’t be this hard.” Excerpts below. See the full post at Tele-Read at [...]

On MediaBistro’s eBookNewser blog, they are chronicling “The Making of an eBook.” In the first installment at http://bit.ly/501b34, the author says the indie publisher doesn’t want to create an eBook because they have to pay to format the book twice. It must have been around 1996 that I heard Chris Gulker, who was then at [...]

CIO Magazine: “CIOs continue to grapple with the same IT challenges they dealt with five and even 10 years ago.”  Excerpts below. Full post at http://tinyurl.com/yduevcl I want to know when will we begin to see change? “No one ever claimed that managing corporate IT systems was easy, or without its fare share of tumult, [...]

Matthew May, Chief Strategist for MBox Design on 4 traps in the way of a culture of constant innovation. Excerpts below. Full post at http://bit.ly/4In4If. I want to know: What traps have you seen? “1. Swinging for fences. In sports we worship the game-clinching grand slam home run, the three-point field goal at the buzzer, [...]

Amazing Sci-Fi Like Technology from a PhD student at MIT Media Labs at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks. Called “Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology,” he’s figured out how to use any surface as a computer – a wall, piece of paper, your hand – just incredible. Watch and read at http://bit.ly/14hJcz. Posted [...]