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April 25, 2008

In single-source publishing, what do you call the source?

The editorial XML?

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March 03, 2008

Batch processing of image files

For free, with ImageMagick.

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February 21, 2008

Managing digital rights in the publishing world

As opposed to enforcing them.

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February 13, 2008

If content isn't king, what is?

And how can you turn it into a catchy slogan?

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January 24, 2008

Digitization and its discontents

How sloppy is OK for Google scans?

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January 11, 2008

Scraping and linked data

Wired Magazine gives scraping the buzzword treatment but remains clueless about the semantic web and linked data.

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January 06, 2008

Information wants to be expensive

And, out of context, it can mislead.

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March 05, 2007

ERH Tired of Acrobat PDFs. Me too.

PDF is a great format, and it's used way too much.

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February 24, 2007

Checking Out Yahoo Pipes

Easy, quick, and useful.

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January 08, 2007

Selling content on the Internet, part 1

Cheap!

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October 23, 2006

Finding free content

People who should know better often think it's easy.

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October 17, 2006

Somewhat customized mass publishing

If you can find an audience of audiences.

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March 03, 2006

Easy, professional-looking websites with open source CSS

And, they work well with straightforward XHTML.

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February 03, 2006

Self-publishing bound, hardcopy books

lulu.com plus free XML technology makes it pretty easy these days; I just did it.

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