TOC Beat? Kat Meyer produced this mock magazine cover about the Tools of Change conference. I’m particularly tickled to be shown there along with Sarah of the Smart Bitches and Kassia of Booksquare. It made me laugh. Good show, Kat! TOC Beat © 2008 Angela James - visit Nice Mommy~Evil Edi...

The confession today is that I’m so sick, being upright is a struggle. I flew home yesterday (3 flights total and 12 hours of travel time/layovers) with winds gusting to 50 mph and a raging case of the flu. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. Yeah. I’ve never been so happy to ...

Panelists: Kassia Kroszer (moderator), Angela James, Malle Valik, Sarah Wendell (For related coverage, you can check out my video interview with Wendell shortly after the panel.) So if you’ve been following these lengthy reports, you’ve probably developed a sense that there is a profound...

Panelists: Mark Coker (moderator), Joe Wikert, April Hamilton, David Rothman, Russell Wilcox If I had to compare Tuesday’s panel with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, I would say this. Claire Danes was superior to April Hamilton. Russ Wilcox, a rather cocky gentleman who spoke like some sno...

Jon Orwant is a highly confident man. Some might say (and a few certainly did to me) that he is one of the great egotists of our epoch. By his own admission, he is certainly not an amateur. But then when you’re the Engineering Manager for the world’s biggest search engine, and you’...

The morning started off with Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s worth pointing out that for thirteen years, Stein worked for The Criterion Company, which he founded. Stein observed that he had always viewed the Criterion discs as items that he ...

During a morning in which news of layoffs at HarperCollins and the future of BookExpo America was severely reduced in time and topography, here at the Marriott Marquis, Tools of Change rolled on. I appear to be the only guy here wearing a T-shirt, but not the only one nursing a hangover. I’ll ...

Follett has unveiled a new e-reading app with K-12 and libraries in mind. So what format(s) is Follett using? Can the app handle the ePub e-book standard? If not, why not? If I oversaw tech for a school or library system, I’d try to shun Follett Digital Reader—unless the Follett app can ...

That’s the news from the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog. It’s just another indication of how the iPhone has become an industry-changing device. I have phones by HTC, Nokia, MWg, Palm and  Blackberry, but I simply don’t use them any more. Whenever I switch over to one of them ...