The annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference has just closed in New York and as usual it was a digital-publishing feast. Though I didn't get to go myself, the flood of blogging and tweeting that came from the conference kept me happy...
As more and more of our world is digitised -- sales, maps, encyclopaedias, books, music, phone calls, radio, TV, you name it, it travels digitally -- companies constantly have to choose what to automate and what has to be done by human beings. In oth...
Here in the ebook-making world there's a lot of to and fro about how much design matters when text is getting reflowed in different screens and applications, from tiny phones to 22-inch LCDs. Will book designers have jobs in a publishing world domina...
What do you do with those wasted minutes in a queue, waiting for a train or a meeting, or staring at the cereal box wishing there was something new to read there?
I usually reach for my phone to read, in an activity that's come to be called "inte...
Much of the buzz at Frankfurt Book Fair this year was about ebooks, and particularly the impact that the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader have had on that part of the industry over the last year. According to IDPF spokesperson Michael Smith, ebook sales...
Since this is my first post on Tech Leader, I thought I couldn't go wrong with a top ten list. Don't worry, I'll try not to do it too often.
This list of software consists of tools I use almost every day. Some of them are better than their proprie...
There's been loads of discussion lately about using Wordpress as a CMS platform. The recent Wordpress meetup held in Cape Town saw some discussion around the the topic. Adii presented a very compelling argument for the fact that Wordpress is essentia...
Driving around a typical Johannesburg suburb, the most eye catching thing is that every house is surrounded by a wall at least 6 feet high. And these walls are decorated with electric fences or barbed wire. Their electric gates let in only the right ...
There is a new technology in our midst, and once again old-school thinking is about to get a serious shake-up.
Kindle is a new gadget, available from Amazon.com, that allows digital books to be downloaded and read on the go. The device is sexy, s...
