Hackers and Makers: Language Matters is from Curious for a Living. She said, “Yes, language matters. Especially when we’re inviting community. What feels more welcoming to you: A hackerspace or a Maker Faire?”
NIce summary of how the candidates are using social media in the 2012 election. Do you think it makes a difference?
CSS: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition by Eric Meyer is a post about much more than the latest edition of Eric’s CSS opus. It’s about how books are marketed, sold, packaged, distributed and even conceived of as entities. As far as I know, O’Reilly is the first publisher to do something like this. I don’t think O’Reilly will be the last. Even if you aren’t interested in the latest CSS book, you need to read this post.
I tweeted about Eric’s post yesterday. He doesn’t completely share my opinion. Here’s a part the conversation Eric and I had then. (By the way, have you noticed how impossible it is to embed a complete conversation from Twitter? Twitter decides for you what tweets you want to include. This is a patchwork and not complete.)
Is this the future of publishing? tinyurl.com/8u83pp2#prebooks #writing
— Virginia DeBolt (@vdebolt) October 2, 2012
@meyerweb It says something to me about publishing in general beyond your particular book. A new idea may have many implications.
— Virginia DeBolt (@vdebolt) October 2, 2012
@meyerweb My mind always goes to the text book market. This type of delivery could be useful there. And in many other ways.
— Virginia DeBolt (@vdebolt) October 2, 2012
@vdebolt Yes, in academic settings it could be invaluable.And in some ways it echoes the way legal publishing works by default.
— Eric A. Meyer (@meyerweb) October 2, 2012