True Implications of Blogging
Posted on October 5, 2010
October 5, 2010
By: Phil Leigh
Unfortunately blogging has almost become a cliché.
Even television news programs sometimes try to show how up-to-date they are by sharing comments from popular blogs. Typically, they pick the least creative ones such as Huffington Post, Politico, and Daily Kos. Nonetheless, much like the printing press transformed publishing, the true cultural significance of blogging — which is only incipient at present — will be a consequence of its production process.
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Gutenberg developed metal typecasting fifty years before Columbus landed in San Salvador. Prior to his invention books couldn’t be economically mass produced. For most of history stories and similar information was passed chiefly by oral tradition while writing was limited to stone tablets and papyrus scrolls. As paper became more common, scribes wrote books laboriously one-at-a-time. While typecast wood blocks emerged a couple of centuries before Gutenberg, they had to be hand-carved and the wooden printing matrices wore out rapidly. Read more…
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WordPress Pioneer & Automattic Founder - Matt Mullenweg
Posted on May 14, 2008
If you would like to hear what the founder of WordPress.com has to say about the future of blogging, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Matt Mullenweg who is the Founder of Automattic, Inc. which is the owner of WordPress.com and the Akismet anti-spam software for blogs. Invested capital in Automattic is now $30 million from such sources as The New York Times, Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, and Radar Ventures. Read more…
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Reference Books Are Becoming Obsolete
Posted on December 8, 2007
The For Dummies books are becoming obsolete. Admittedly, titles like Classical Music for Idiots or Greek Mythology for Dummies won’t be affected. However, for titles relating to computers and the Internet a conventional book simply won’t do. Instead a multimedia publication, with embedded instructional videos, is likely to become the future standard. Read more…
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