Last week saw Tim Berners-Lee (that’s right, he who ‘made’ the Web) talk at NESTA on ‘The Future of the Web’. I managed to snaffle a ticket to this hugely oversubscribed event and was pleasantly surprised by this engaging and articulate man, who worked in the late 80s and early 90s with the boffins at CERN […]
Nope, this is nothing to do with Barbara Woodhouse (those of you who are old enough to remember her) or even One Man and His Dog.
Try to picture a few hundred tipsy booksellers, authors and publishers staggering around central London, from Bloomsbury to Soho, via Hatchards, Foyles and other illustrious booksellers, dressed in fancy dress, buckets clanging […]
Last week I received an invitation to attend a ‘Cultural Diversity in Publishing’ round-table from The Bookseller.
It was billed as a discussion of the current situation with an in-depth look at why publishing is still predominantly a white, middle class industry. Pearson’s Diversity Communications Officer, Dele Fatunla, and HR Project Manager Beth Callan from Random House were […]
Still looking for a job, and the Interactive Media, Computer Games and Animation Adminstrator role didn’t tickle your fancy? Have you considered applying for the Publishing Co-ordinator vacancy that we now have?
As regular readers will realise, I’m the new kid on the block. Publishing came into Skillset’s remit at the beginning of April and we […]
There’s nothing like e-books to get a publishing debate going.
For those not in the know, e-books were hailed in the last millenium as the future of digital publishing… and yet this “revolution” never materialised. Why? For several reasons. From the lack of a satisfactory device with which to read them, to functionality that didn’t wholly fulfill reader demands.
The […]
At last week’s Periodical Publishers Association Magazines 2008 conference, the revered/reviled (delete as appropriate) former Blair spin-doctor, Derek Draper, took part in a session named “The Personality of the Perfect Editor: What Can Psychology Tell Us?”
He took the delegates through a psychometric profiling test (supplied courtesy of Psychologies Magazine) and much fun was had by all, […]