Monthly Archives: August 2009

From codex to code: will books become apps?

August 28, 2009 – 9:28 am

Delivering books as smartphone apps offers many new possibilities beyond the traditional confines of book publishing.

By John Helmer | Posted in E-books, Publishing business models, Technology | Post a comment | 1 comment

XML: Prior art or the missing tag?

August 26, 2009 – 3:48 pm

During my holiday travels this year I discovered what may be the “missing tag” in Carnac, south-west Brittany. Here is photographic evidence that 7,000 years ago neolithic technologists were interested in structured markup.
Interestingly, the glyphs represented don’t seem to be present in the latest version of the Unicode standard. Did our ancestors know something we [...]

By Richard Padley | Posted in Technology | Post a comment | 6 comments

Shibboleth and OpenID usability problems

August 11, 2009 – 1:25 pm

Federated authentication systems such as Shibboleth and OpenID exist to solve identity management problems but they both suffer from similar usability problems when users login and logout.

By Richard Padley | Posted in Information Architecture, Online Publishing Market, Technology | Post a comment | 6 comments

Seven attributes of effective project management

August 4, 2009 – 5:21 pm

Delivering web publishing projects requires the careful coordination of a range of skill sets. There are the developers, who focus on technical challenges; the designers, information architects and QA testers, who primarily focus on addressing end-users’ needs; and of course there is the client team, whose prime focus is on business benefits. Meanwhile, the Project [...]

By Andrew Grimes | Posted in Information Architecture, Project Management, Technology | Post a comment | 2 comments

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