62 tweets | 16 @tweets
62 tweets | 16 @tweets
DavidDurand’s Tweets from the 2009 TOC ConferenceDavidDurand: @toc My fear is that the people at #toc include most of the tools of change for publishing. If so, that's bad.
DavidDurand: Arrived at #TOC. Going to reception soon.
venndiagram8: Great conversations @ #TOC Bookish TweetUp. Great folks like @DavidDurand, @softskull, @billtrippe @podiobooks & @kirbiglione. #SocComm
DavidDurand: #toc Bob Stein says social aspect of online content is what we all missed back when. Me: This is one of the few Ted Nelson missed too.
DavidDurand: If you're interested in annotation, Check out Cathy Marshall's work over the years. http://tinyurl.com/c8scf9 for instance. #toc
DavidDurand: #toc @pdlug I think we don't have names for all the genres of book as information. There will be many successors/complements, all different
DavidDurand: @mkirschenbaum #toc exactly, but it's more than one kind of construction, a reality hidden by the popular artifact.
DavidDurand: @artmaker #toc is the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference held by O'Reilly media. http://toccon.com
DavidDurand: @annmichael @mkirschenbaum yes, but if we have one shared margin for "the book" things get perhaps obtrusively social in a new way #toc
Artmaker: RT @DavidDurand: @artmaker #toc is the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference held by O'Reilly media. http://toccon.com <--------answer
DavidDurand: #toc is there a treatment for "ruptured contexts?"
DavidDurand: @cherylpickett Do you really think authors are more scared than publishers. Not from what I see... #toc
DavidDurand: Dctorow: "The copyright industries have not covered themselves in glory" #toc
cherylpickett: @DavidDurand #TOC Depends on who you talk too, yes many stuck in belief traditional only way, anything else is wrong & won't sell
DavidDurand: vendors push DRM, but claim that publishers demand it. Publishing should preserve their image of not being jerks. #toc
DavidDurand: #toc you can be a platform and charge fair rent without chaining your customers and their customers to the storefront.
DavidDurand: #toc Pirated spore was better, because the DRM broke a significant percentage of all installations. What a reverse incentive
DavidDurand: kirtas roboscanner (whatever they call it) at #toc http://phodroid.com/f7syr5
DavidDurand: #toc Orwant: stats show that frontlist/backlist is not a distinction online. 6-7 pages average reading on book search hits.
DavidDurand: #toc I always download a few pages just figuring out where I am, and so what's the random download percentage there?
DavidDurand: #toc orwant: 99% of books viewed at least once. 89% have at least one buy click.
DavidDurand: @cherylpickett I agree. I guess I'm amazed at the slowness of reaction in an environment of rapid change #toc
DavidDurand: orwant:wants to go form scan to "original intent" XML. Glad they are trying, and I bet they don't do well on tech content for a decade #toc
TOCConNow: by @DavidDurand: @mkirschenbaum #toc exactly, but it's more than one kind of construction, a reality hidden by the popular artifact.
DavidDurand: #toc wifi bandwidth gone. Cell phone alternative good but display a bit tough.
DavidDurand: @chelseagreen @robotech_master We use PDF at #tizra because that's where the data is. As there's more data elsewhere, we'll move there. #toc
DavidDurand: Enjoying @mkirschenbaum s #toc talk, but wondering what the publishing types are making of it. Old ACH hacks like me can't really tell.
chelseagreen: @DavidDurand @robotech_master good point. Publishers have no addl conversion cost when creating PDFs. We all already use it. #toc
chelseagreen: @robotech_master @daviddurand @oreilly is the only one I know of. I'd bet only 2% of the pubs here could tell you how to create an epub #toc
chelseagreen: @robotech_master @daviddurand awesome. I hope an epub ecosystem follows. #toc
DavidDurand: @mikecane I think this fits with Cory's opener. When you use publish with aggressive DRMyou shackle yourself more than your customer. #toc
thr61: @davegray @daviddurand -- fascinating watching your parallel tweets from #toc. The trick will be to see if you can actually meet.
DavidDurand: @chelseagreen @robotech_master Thanks! epub soon but we must match data holdings Adobe support may do what XML evangelists haven't #toc
DavidDurand: @davegray Guess you may know Tim Roy, he thinks maybe we should say hello. Should we get a drink at the reception? #toc
DavidDurand: #toc Damn, I know this history cold -- enough to argue with most people's versions of it.
DavidDurand: #toc is DRM publisher as disabler?
eykd: RT "@DavidDurand: #toc is DRM publisher as disabler?" YES!
DavidDurand: #toc Fried on project management: email works for about a second and then it's a mess.
DavidDurand: RT @pablod: "Publishing business has tons of byproducts they do nothing with!" #toc Amen!
DavidDurand: Oops: #toc: Kids books should come w/a license for the performance rights, so that parents are not raising their kids to life of crime.
DavidDurand: #toc Sigh, a slow video. It is a cool machine though. And it has a part named "the accumulator." that's also cool!
bjepson: RT @DavidDurand: We use PDF at #tizra because that's where the data is. As there's more data elsewhere, we'll move there. #toc
DavidDurand: Instant gratification rules. Immediate access to content. #toc
DavidDurand: RT @angelajames: #toc used 3 y/o nephew as example of someone who knows nothing but a world of access to immediate access to all content
DavidDurand: @davegray #toc I often bring that up because people get excited about printing, and forget the previous 3 millennia of scrolls/clay/stone
DavidDurand: @eykd #toc that's right. They don't know now, and too few are investigating. even fewer do anything with what they learn.
DavidDurand: @doctorow #toc I got into this because of Ted Nelson, but I've become skeptical that readers will use this. Maybe the directors cut...
DavidDurand: I like the idea of the web as the global slushpile! #toc
DavidDurand: #toc 8% seems low based on some other publishers I've seen (like OECD). Maybe boring reference is different from things you read whole.
DavidDurand: RT forgot #toc tag: Amazing to me that one can make money on a Haskell book. At all! Sign of the power of the open process...
DavidDurand: RT forgot #toc tag: Amazing to me that one can make money on a Haskell book. At all! Sign of the power of the open process...
DavidDurand: UM library reprints. 300 copies first year, 20K last year. How many in between? #toc
DavidDurand: UM free online content is part of the marketing for these reprints. People don't read whole books online. #toc
DavidDurand: #toc blog topics: at BEA Jeff Bezos basically said we want to destroy your business... received an ovation.
mikecane: RT: @DavidDurand: @KatMeyer : I don't think Amazon cares about readers. #toc
DavidDurand: @joebachana But I don't bet against the great powers idly any more. You succeed from the core of good, even if there's evil too #toc
DavidDurand: Tag cloud on rights. I keep wondering why publishers are letting Google take the risk on rights when the reward is the industry #toc
mr_random: RT @mikecane RT: @DavidDurand: @KatMeyer : I don't think Amazon cares about readers. #toc
DavidDurand: Great point from audience: there's no warehouse online, so everything can sell over time.#toc
DavidDurand: @KatMeyer: ideal price point for reading devices $99. #toc
DavidDurand: RT @worleygirl: "The #1 topic at the #TOC Tag Cloud session = FEAR, FEAR, FEAR." -- and a real shame we're not beyond it action cures fear
DavidDurand: #toc tag cloud call from audience: ragged right margins!
DavidDurand: @kwohlrob #toc re: Friction buzzword. I think if so many services suck, then we do need the word. It's a symptom of global suckiness.
DavidDurand: #toc starting to wind down. Geting a bit tired. Maybe I'll win the Sony Reader!
DavidDurand: Glad to see that athens film festival gave it a prize! #toc
DavidDurand: @laurahazardowen Sure. #toc was basically my first real twitter experience, and was pretty eye opening.
DavidDurand: RT @TOCConNow: "by @dskaletsky: is the internet destroying value? http://twurl.nl/vc5tdf Thoughts from #toc" I want to see Tim's response!
DavidDurand: RT @ami_with_an_i: RT @readerville: Authors Guild to Members: Stay Out of the eBook Game http://tinyurl.com/bb5zx7 for #toc
DavidDurand: Have the author's guild considered the accessibility implications of disabling the Kindle reading feature? #toc
curseyoukhan: @DavidDurand does anyone actually pay attention to the author's guild? i don't know a single working writer who does #toc
DavidDurand: @CurseYouKhan It just amazes me to see something so backwards. There are lawyers, too, which is the real problem. #toc
curseyoukhan: @DavidDurand it's all publicity on the part of the AG -- to make people think they matter. #toc
chelseagreen: found great new folks for #followfriday this week at #toc @jasonfried @doctorow @chrisbrogan @ljndawson @katmeyer @daviddurand
TOCConNow: by @DavidDurand: RT @TOCConNow: "by @dskaletsky: is the internet destroying value? http://twurl.nl/vc5tdf Thoughts from #toc" I want to s...
DavidDurand: @rgoldthwaite Welcome! I found that I got really sucked into it at #toc. Search #toc to see what it was like. Tweetdeck rules on a laptop.