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Tips for Writing a Screencast Script 19 Feb 2013 | 08:47 pm
Tips for Writing a Screencast Script: • Use a template. Try using the sample scripts TechSmith offers as part of their Camtasia Tutorial series, or developing your own custom template. Consistency in...
Experts See Parallels Between Dot-Com, Social Media Bubbles 4 May 2012 | 04:02 am
Experts See Parallels Between Dot-Com, Social Media Bubbles: RRW thinks that advertising driven revenue models are fragile: When you spend a week interviewing people about a social media bubble and ...
Valve’s new pricing will charge players based on how much of a jerk they are 26 Apr 2012 | 03:31 am
Valve’s new pricing will charge players based on how much of a jerk they are: “The issue that we’re struggling with quite a bit is something I’ve kind of talked about before, which is how do you prop...
Amazon trying to rehabilitate its public image after lots of... 25 Apr 2012 | 03:36 am
Amazon trying to rehabilitate its public image after lots of negative press from publishers…? This image features on the front page today.
Tumbling to Tumblr 25 Apr 2012 | 01:31 am
Gonna try Tumblr for a bit; Posterous is getting too slow. Follow me at http://packtdavidb.tumblr.com/ Posted via email from David Barnes at work | Comment »
Financial Times’ Web app draws in 2m users in the ten months since launch 25 Apr 2012 | 12:44 am
Financial Times’ Web app draws in 2m users in the ten months since launch Last month we wrote that FT.com’s subscription revenue was on course to overtake its ad-based revenue in 2012, with Rob Grimsh...
Move over Harry Potter... Packt books bought from Packtpub.com can now be sent straight to Kindle 6 Apr 2012 | 03:36 am
Screenshots below. And of course you’ll still be able to access the book in a variety of DRM free formats from your Packtpub.com account. See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from Davi...
Nobody Wants to Learn How To Program 6 Mar 2012 | 07:04 am
This post by @AlSweigart says more about how to write a tech book than the whole history of this blog, in a single post. http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2012/03/03/nobody-wants-to-learn-how-to-prog… ...
The most useful thing I learned at university 18 Feb 2012 | 04:10 am
Early in the second year we were given a project to develop an IT strategy for a small printing business. We delivered a comprehensive strategy with some pretty powerful recommendations for enterprise...
Lean back, lean forward, lean over 17 Dec 2011 | 02:21 am
On Twitter yesterday I was raving about a fantastic Economist slideshow that sets out a credible and satisfying vision for the future of publishing: The slide show misses an important third mode of r...