40 tweets | 6 @tweets
40 tweets | 6 @tweets
geoffcox: Heading to NY to get an early start at #TOC tomorrow. See you there!
geoffcox: Morning keynote: A Book is a Place. Bob Stein seems to have predicted the digital book in the 80s. #toc
geoffcox: World of Warcraft can be thought of as a collaborative work of fiction. #toc
: RT @geoffcox: World of Warcraft can be thought of as a collaborative work of fiction. #toc
geoffcox: The video game with the most draconian DRM is also the most pirated video game of 2008 (Spore). #toc
geoffcox: Publishers need to convey to the public that we're not the recording industry. #toc
geoffcox: Looking for the Espresso book-making machine #toc
geoffcox: page2pub creates an ad-hoc well-formatted publication from a variety of online sources. It's a XUL browser extension. #toc
geoffcox: Scott Berkun gave an awesome talk on the human side of affecting change. I have to check out his book. #toc
geoffcox: Just bought Scott Berkum's book -- printed on-demand by an Espresso Book Machine. Cool! #toc
geoffcox: Your content is worth more on a better device. #toc
geoffcox: Just heard "disintermediate" for the first time this show. Last year I would have been in double-digits by now :) #toc
: @geoffcox I love that word. Reminds me of "antidisestablishmentarianism." #toc
geoffcox: While eBooks may not take over America any time soon, they could make a huge impact on countries without access to libraries. #toc
: RT @geoffcox Just bought Scott Berkun's book -- printed on-demand by an Espresso Book Machine. Cool! #toc
geoffcox: Expanded editions of books, enabled through agile XML source, are not often taken advantage of #toc
geoffcox: Jaaon Fried: Every time you make something, you make something else Aclnowledge this and try to monetize the by-products. #toc
geoffcox: Jason Fried is my hero! #toc
geoffcox: will quickly create author pages that publishers can sponsor rather than create them in-house. #toc
geoffcox: @GeoffreyDennis It reminds me of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. Maybe they can strike an endorsement deal with Yoko. #toc
geoffcox: FLOSS Manuals - free manuals for free software. If you suspend your business instincts, this makes perfect sense. #toc
geoffcox: eBook growth is about to reach the "hockey stick" zone #toc
geoffcox: Once eBooks showed up on Oprah, they were officially mainstream. #toc
geoffcox: Stanza lets you read at home, at work, in the bathroom... or in the bathroom at work. ;) #toc
geoffcox: Tim O'Reilly: publishers need to have agile teams of new media developers in-house. Multi-year development cycles are unacceptable. #toc
geoffcox: Free eBooks are necessary to enable the market for paid eBooks #toc
geoffcox: Saw my photo from last year's event on the big screens after this morning's keynote. I was NOT flipping the bird though. #toc
geoffcox: It's strange seeing Derek Powazek's () picture all over #toc and knowing that he's not here this year.
geoffcox: DailyLit just released a serialized book about Madoff this morning. Rats! They just beat us by days. #toc
geoffcox: A writer in the audience is doing version control of his manuscript with GIT (the Linux code versioning tool). That's cool. #toc
geoffcox: Getting really jazzed about the design-driven automation Typéfi is demonstrating. #toc
geoffcox: $1.30 for a roll of Lifesavers at the Marriott! That can't be normal - even for NYC. #toc
geoffcox: There are 10,623 travel websites in the USA. #toc
geoffcox: Buzzword for #ToC 2008 --> Disintermediate; ToC 2009 --> Curate
geoffcox: Consumer demand can prevent a Kindle/DRM monopoly. We need to educate the consumers. #toc
geoffcox: At the last #ToC keynote session - waiting for the chocolate and coffee to kick in. My next post will probably have lots of typos :)
: #toc @geoffcox I think much of the writing is the worst as well :P
geoffcox: Cool trailer for "Sita Sings The Blues" (.com) which is a movie Nina Paley released under a Creative Commons license. #toc
geoffcox: Going through my Tools of Change notes (many of which are on Twitter). I need to figure out how to get an archive of everyone's tweets. #toc
geoffcox: Hey #toc people, has anyone captured a complete archive of tweets from the show? Using the Twitter API, I can only see the last 1500.
: @geoffcox yup, I've got em. Will process tonight and post about all tweets tomorrow #TOC
geoffcox: @andrewsavikas That's awesome news. Not sure how much work it will be to skim and summarize ~9000 tweets but that's a good start. #toc
geoffcox: I have uploaded a few videos from #toc for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
geoffcox: Getting my mind completely blown by the "Augmented Reality" demos from Metaio. (windows only) #toc