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Cursor — the Post-Internet Community-based Social Networking Publishing Model

Iconoclast publisher Richard Nash left Soft Skull Press last year and has now announced his innovation in the trends of future book publishing, called "Cursor." It has been called a post-Internet publishing platform. Writers and publishers have enjoyed the advancements in printing books these last few years -- from Print on Demand technology to Amazon's Kindle and a number of other methods of information dissemination, such as the new iPad. Many writers now make money from their books bypassing the…
February 1, 2010
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Presenting The Art of Avatar!

One month after it's release, Avatar is still topping the box office charts. And now today we are proud to announce the launch of The Art of Avatar! Built in Wordpress, the site showcases yummy bits from the book of the same name, and I got to use the super user-friendly Page Flip Gallery plugin to bat. And speaking of bats... (more…)
January 28, 2010
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The Vatican Embraces New Media for Outreach

There's an old 1971 Robert Silverberg science-fiction story, "Good News from the Vatican," where a robot is elected pope... How far off is that? The current Pope is now encouraging all his clergy to jump onto the new media bandwagon and embrace social media.  In a message prepared for World Communications Day on May 16, Pope Benedict XVI is telling his  priests, bishops and cardinals to proclaim the gospel using social media, online video, blogs and animated features in order…
January 26, 2010
Development

The Cambridge School

Happy to announce the launch of another site : The Cambridge School is alive. Using Wordpress as a Content Management System, the admin side allows the school's staff to easily update the site, without having to worry about all the nitty-gritty. Images on the homepage and elsewhere are pulled in via jQuery from XML docs, fading in and out. Typeface.js renders text in the sidebars which is also dynamically controlled from the backend... (more…)
January 25, 2010
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Online Revenue: Monetization in Mafia Wars

The Chatter Have you been haring this lately around the office and coffee houses, “Mafia Wars is addicting”?  Or: “I’ve been spending a lot of money on Mafia Wars.” The online game is a good example of digital economy platforms, where money operates in the virtual world of the game and in the real world with revenue profit and charitable efforts. You can buy points in Mafia Wars, and gain more weapons, power, and position.  Depends on how much you…
January 20, 2010