drupa, Printweek, video, what to publish on tablets? Roy Greenslade on magazines

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/business/media/media-analysis-magazines-learn-to-embrace-apps-as-a-lure-for-readers-7728191.html

Roy Greenslade explains that magazines can shift towards tablets from print as they already know about a niche.

But what about the web as a loss leader? and is a paper like the Guardian already in a bit of a niche? They could always expand the professional supplements. Some people still remember the IT one.

Peter Preston has suggested that newspaper salvation could arrive at the weekend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/13/newsprint-salvation-weekend?INTCMP=SRCH

this is sort of magazine surely. Saturday Guardian is not much about news.

I have posted about Printweek and video on a blog originally about IPEX.

http://ipex2002.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/barney-cox-interview-but-where-is.html

My question is about Haymarket and video. Maybe other titles do more on this but I think Printweek should update their video page sometime soon. Video is part of the mix and things are changing faster than you might gather from reading the print versions of the Guardian or Printweek.

Bookshops in Exeter, Waterstones as a wifi cafe with Kindle hardware #likeminds

The previous #likeminds may have surprised some people with the support for hard copy books.

The next #likeminds is at the end of this week and there have been major changes in Exeter bookshops. Blackwells on the campus has morphed into a desk at the Forum. There will be extra stock of course books at the beginning of the academic terms but the idea of a university bookshop with a range of stock seems to have gone. The Forum has got improved library access to online journals and also rooms with touch screens the size of tables to facilitate group sessions. So far many people seem to accept this sort of direction.

News today is that Waterstones will stock the Kindle form Amazon and improve the wifi access and cafe facitilites in existing shops. In Exeter there are two Waterstones, one of which already has a cafe. The central library also plans a cafe but there may be no limit to the number of cafes Exeter can support.

WH Smith also has a cafe and a stock of Kobo devices. They also have some digital stock such as blank CDs and some cables. The  Kobo directly supports the ePUB format. So it is possible to transfer content from free downloads or other formats. ePUB may be complicated by the various forms of Digital Rights Management but it appears that Kobo is a reasonable choice at the moment. see this video for guidance and check the comments to see that there are still a lot of problems.

Exeter is going to be fairly typical of a retail environment with books. The university has largely moved on away from physical books. The High Street will have Kindle outlets, cafes with wifi, WH Smiths and a Sony Centre with the original eReader once sold in Waterstones.

I am still puzzled as to what will happen with the academic library. They still have a lot of books as hard copy. Most of the journals are now digital, but the publishing model still assumes the conventions established in print. There appears to be one unique date of publishing for one unique version of the text. The cost to the library is still high. Access to the general public is usually not available.

It will be interesting to see how this develops. There may be more students from the university visiting the High Street in search of hard copy books. Maybe some academic journals will have versions that can be found on a Kindle or Kobo at prices more people would consider. The difficulty could be that in management books for example there will be one set of literature for journals, now even better rights protected than when in print, and another set of literature written in a style that can sell in bookshops now only found in the city centre. This is roughly where I guess the #likeminds bookstall will find stock, assuming there still is one. More at the end of the week. 

Copyright, YouTube, ISCA Wheelchair Dancers, Universal Island

Copyright seems to be working out ok. There are sensible ways round most situations. At least I think this is the case so explaining in this blog what seems to be happening is one way to check things out.

Undisputed fact, there is a song by the Sugarbabes called Push The Button posted on YouTube by VEVO

The ISCA Wheelchair Dancers performed in Princesshay on Sunday and my video has a reasonable sound as I positioned next to a speaker. 

YouTube tells me that there is "matched third party content" and that adverts may appear next to the video. So I think what this means is that any income from ads will end up with Universal Def Jam Island. Which seems entirely reasonable. 19 views so far. When we get to 78,000 we may try to claim some proportion for the ISCA Wheelchair Dancers.

The VEVO version is heading towards 4 million views.

Radio, PR, Podcasting as topics for #likeminds in Exeter and Wild Show on Phonic FM

Next week I will be at #likeminds on the Friday but will concentrate on the Wild Show for Thursday. the broadcast is from 10 to 12 but we follow with coffee and a sort of plan for the future. Probably we will have aq guest to talk about a book and Chris will meet them at Central Station. So I will start the show and can mention anything about #likeminds that seems to fit in. 

Over the weekend I will try to video Chris and the ISCA Wheelchair dancers. They are part of the Olympic torch events in Princesshay. Chris also has some clips from his i-phone which need a bit of an edit but we are not yet sure how to do this on YouTube. So our level of production is fairly low. I notice several comments on the Whatleydude blog about connecting social media and television.

http://whatleydude.com/2012/05/current-attempts-at-television-based-social-media-integration-are-failing-hard/

But this seems to be coming from an established tv point of view. We do have a broadcast radio but it is made up of little bits that exist in other forms as well. When it falls over we go back to txt. I speak for myself of course.

I don't know if there will be a lunch meeting in the Phoenix on Thursday as part of #likeminds but if radio fits the agenda we will be not far away after about ten past 12.

On Friday I hope to attend the masterclass on podcasting. We are using Soundcloud but maybe not as well as we might. It tends to be either complete shows or else short dlips. Grouping as a podcast is not something we try much.

In general I hope to find out more about PR or a theory of PR that allows for social media access to events and content. The Creative Commons approach is still not well understood I find. I am sort of reverse engineering PR theory back from where I would like it as a video blogger. There must be an explicit theory somewhere.  

Landa joins Twitter ; social media and nanotech what could go wrong? ‏@landanano

This looks like a really good development.

Landa on Twitter

‏@landanano

91 tweets so far

Maybe they waited till drupa is over. They still want you to travel to the show even in an age of video.

But it looks as if they may get the hang of this twittering thing. If there is some video out there it could soon be identified.

Critique? Who knew? link and tweet expansion #mtw3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/14/orthodoxy-prevails-climate-of-academic-fear?INTCMP=SRCH

This link is to letters about Aditya Chakrabortty on a lack of academic analysis in the current crisis. Further search in the Guardian finds at least a couple of articles and there may be more later.

There is a new slide set to promote #mtw3. The case for looking at management theory is fairly easy to make to managers and academics. It leads to better research and better management. Critique could be better known. 

#drupa waiting for Frank and Andy #whattheythink #VIDEOdrupa

Today is the last day of drupa. It will take at least a few months to work out what it has been about.

Today there is a new video from Frank Romano listing some slogans. He ends with a promise to post another one with a couple of hot picks. Now he tells us.

http://whattheythink.com/video/58098-frank-romano-mottos-he-sees-drupa/

He makes no mention of any slogan from Landa. But he approves of Apple for having new products so maybe we are supposed to reach our own conclusions. So far as I can tell from a distance Landa has no slogan such as Frank would notice, has no Twitter account, posts no video to YouTube. They just do a product demo in real time.

So drupa continues mostly as ever intended.

I also notice not much about JDF. As memory serves Frank was never convinced that the benefits of JDF justified investment in new production equipment. So changes in workflow have been slow as kit lasts a long time. At this drupa web to print seems to be assumed so there must be some XML in there somewhere. But maybe nobody needs to know any detail including print buyers and the management.

More later, including I hope a link to something from Andy Tribute along the lines of 2008.

Tales of Things revisited, location muddle Exeter / Lancaster

It is definitely getting warmer. The Beach Boys have a new CD sometime soon but not yet.

It should be possible to record video in sunlight. Gardens near Northernhay are quite close to the RAMM so I may persuade JD and Chris from the Wild Show to explore. The gate is still shut but the garden entrance to the RAMM must be ready sometime soon or at least during this summer.

I am also starting to think about a trip to Lancaster. Thinking about web aspects of Gripping Yarns reminded me about Tales of Things. Maybe the stories stay the same but time and place can vary. I have to look things up to find out what I have already posted as Tales of Things components. Earlier today I found

http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/1259/

Time garden, now out of funded time period so just a garden, not curated i think but who knows?

http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/541/

table top of phones from Exeter, includes Nokia 3410 and Kodak Zi8 I don't make it up that I need to be convinced about a phone with a better camera than the Zi8 before I will upgrade

http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/75/

infolab21 , inspiration equivalent of the innovation center

http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/78/

management hub, where tech is evaluated

http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/83/

nice , city centre link to public space

How much of this could fit into the RAMM? not a lot

#mtw3 online connections around publishing

The Management Theory at Work 3 continues in a social media phase and I am finding several threads. It is intended to combine academic theory and management practice. There was a strong element of Critical Management Studies in the first two conferences and this continues. The Critical Management website has included a notice about #mtw3.

http://www.criticalmanagement.org/

Recently I noticed they also linked to a report on Al Jazeera about library.nu by Christopher M. Kelty. The site reviewed and linked to scholarly publications and was closed down as part of the copyright holders project on piracy. Kelty notes the global demand for education but what I want to emphasise is his take on the situation in university libraries-

The publishing industry we have today cannot - or will not - deliver our books to this enormous global market of people who desperately want to read them.
Instead, they print a handful of copies - less than 100, often - and sell them to libraries for hundreds of dollars each. When they do offer digital versions, they are so wrapped up in restrictions and encumbrances and licencing terms as to make using them supremely frustrating. 
To make matters worse, our university libraries can no longer afford to buy these books and journals; and our few bookstores are no longer willing to carry them. So the result is that most of our best scholarship is being shot into some publisher's black hole where it will never escape.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html

I also notice that the Proceedings of the recent conference on Networked Learning were published by Lancaster University as PDF files from a website. Previous publications were by Springer Verlag so there was both a print version at a price I guess only university libraries would consider and also a PDF version hidden away on the website. (The latest design is much more clear)

#mtw3 is based on a keynote by John Burgoyne ( available on YouTube ) and the rest of the agenda appears depending on where he is speaking. (The YouTube sound is based on a mix of University Campus Suffolk and the Continuing Learning Group at Lancaster)

At Suffolk a previous speaker was John Peters from GSE Research. GSE is looking at different publishing models including some open access. So there could be a conversation about publishing from various points of view.

Management theory is also complicated by the Business to Business magazine situation which is rapidly moving online. The style of article may not qualify for academic citation but there is an overlap in the availability of ideas for various audiences.

Kelty did not mention sites such as Scribd which was once attacked as piracy but now hosts many sample chapters and promotional extracts for established publishers. It is well on topic in my honest opinion to mention my own papers from the first two Management Theory at Work conferences.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2187340/Is-ISO-9000-worth-another-look-

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2187351/Management-values-and-Dr-Deming-

It is possible that a "face-to-face" version of #mtw3 will be located at the Work Foundation in London, now part of LAncaster University. They have a project to look at publishing as part of innovation.

http://www.biginnovationcentre.com/Impact/Incubator/Knowledge-Unlatched

Meanwhile I am finding out more about sound through working on the Wild Show on Phonic FM in Exeter. The FM broadcast is covered by a licence from the PRS. But "listen again" is more complicated. The trend though is for the people with rights to value promotion enough that they prefer sound to be available. I think text may end up in a similar situation.

Lots to discuss and to be continued.

Walter Benjamin as theologian, modernity as fall, making quite a lot of sense

Over the weekend I read in the Guardian a book review with an interesting take on Walter Benjamin-

Groys writes beautifully about Walter Benjamin, and again proposes an eyebrow-raising idea: that Benjamin should be read as a theologian rather than as a philosopher. Benjamin certainly fits badly with a conventional version of philosophy, and Groys argues that the difference between philosophy and theology is the difference between the future and the past: the philosopher desires the truth which is just out of reach, while the theologian commemorates and repeats the transformative event which is becoming more and more distant. Groys even manages not to quote one of Benjamin's most famous observations: "This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet". If you close only one eye, the image could as easily be product upon product lavished on the feet of Capital.

This might explain how academics see things. We live in a hell realm from which there is no escape. The creation myth for this world is one of destruction. There is nothing to do but deepen our understanding of the modernity dark side.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/introduction-to-antiphilosophy-boris-groys-review?INTCMP=SRCH

Presumably before modernity there was some form of paradise in which universities were much more to the liking of academics. But when this was I'm not sure.

Espresso continued, the one off book as manufacturing Inprint Live #drupa

I still can't find anything about the Espresso book machine from drupa searching. Maybe there is too much happening with larger bits of kit.

But I notice there is a new show announced for next year 

http://www.inprintlive.com/

This will look at all forms of print / short run manufacture as far as I can tell. At previous drupas I have had to stay in Cologne and then commute. No bad thing but I have not had a proper look yet so this may work out later as a real show.

I have missed the last two London book Fairs but the impression I get is that short run or digital printing is still seen as a supply to the existing distribution system. So it is sent by a printer to a warehouse. The idea of a print production unit located in a bookshop is not considered much, although that is how a lot of this sort of thing started.

I am still guessing that there is no Espresso in Charing Cross Road, London UK. Maybe there is one at Blackwells Oxford. But still no news in Exeter even of a retail unit at St Lukes.

So I hope In Print Live will include the one off book. Maybe if it involved nano-technology it could be interesting. Can nano print in 3D so you get the bound volume in one hit?

more on Topophobia, public realm, architecture. Gallery Jitters

Casual browsing finds some more on Topophobia

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/research/researchgroups/artpublicrealm/

So I think it is a fair question to ask about if there is anything positive at all, just possibly, about online.

Previous post today on Tumblr but I can't get the hang of it.

http://will789gb.tumblr.com/

Started there to follow Spaces Review Group but now can't quite find it.

Central St Martins has recently moved to King's cross where there are some impressive water features centred on the canal. I am reminded of the Exeter Forum. My theory is that virtual worlds have had a deeper influence for longer than is often supposed. Space design in the last decade seems to be trying to imitate an online situation where space is unlimited. But iun reality the function can get lost I think. For example a campus without a bookshop.

Anyway, sorry going off topic. Please suggest some academic language on why research universities need to invest in architecture at this time.

Quality, Learning, OFSTED and Fear

I was very interested in this news item

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/may/12/schools-face-talent-drain

Previous posts have tried to connect theory about learning and quality. There is critique of quality systems as restrictive and derived from Fordism. There can also be concern that performance targets from HR detract from continuous improvement.

The situation around OFSTED might allow for discussion that related both to learning and quality.

by the way

http://www.simoncaulkin.com

includes archive of old Observer writing

drupa, Xerox, Espresso Book Machine, Blackwells, Exeter UK

This post is to try to connect something that might be relevant this week.

drupa continues in Dusseldorf. In Exeter things settle after the opening of the new Forum on campus. Blackwells bookshop adjusts to a desk next to the dry cleaning in the supermarket area. Also they have storage on the St Lukes campus, some distance from the main campus but quite close to Heavitree where I am writing this. So it would suit me if there was an Espresso Book Machine in the empty banking unit on St Lukes. There has been a Blackwells in the past. Or else a Print Shop with some sort of arrangement to supply short runs.

As far as I know the Espresso at Blackwell's on Charing Cross Road has now gone. (It might be half a year or more since I last looked) There were problems with spare parts and it was often out of order for several days. Then Espresso announced a deal with Xerox ( I think the original was based on Konica Minolta ) Maybe this will be more reliable.But I have not seen one in a UK bookshop.

The Forum is futuristic in format but I still think something like a bookshop can be part of a university. There may no longer be much space available at the Forum but St Lukes has an empty shop. So what is possible?

Meanwhile I can find no news online to suggest that Xerox have anything new to say about the Espresso. It seems there are many more sites at bookshops and university libraries in the USA than in Europe. This may be because few people know about it. So something at drupa might reach a librarian. You never know.

Please add a comment if anything fits with this.  

Photos of giraffes from RAMM - yarn to follow later

These photos from the cafe area of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. I think any area can be photographed but yesterday not the performances as part of Gripping Yarns. There are some still photos but when they are to be available I don't know.

My own script about the giraffe situation will be revisited later.

Gripping Yarns continues today. Queen Street, Exeter.

Wild Show conversation continues ‏ @Clive_Chilvers @KodakCB

/will789gb/notes-from-wild-show-today-with-guest-clive-c

The link above is to notes from Wild Show on Thursday. I think the mp3 should be on Soundcloud in a few days. We continued talking in the Phoenix bar drinking coffee and Clive told me about recent aspects of social media. Tweet today has links-

Clive Chilvers ‏ @Clive_Chilvers

@will789gb Here is what I mention earlier, #Signal, the #Instagram of Citizen Journalism http://on.mash.to/JPlhCD #socialmedia

So I am checking this out. Mashable is reporting on all sorts of things. I realise I will need a better mobile phone. Maybe sometime soon. Because I have a Kodak Zi8 I am happy with my ancient Nokia until I am convinced a phone has the same functionality for video. Clive's Samsung looks ok but I wait on guidance from drupa. Surely the Kodak chief blogger has time to comment on what is happening with the camera patents?

Anyway, #Signal looks interesting. But copyright and payment are also relevant. I don't see much mention of how the citizen photographer would be paid. I keep seeing "Pictures from YouTube" on Channel 4 News as if that is enough explanation. ( I was questioning Clive on why he did not do more with Creative Commons but I do realise there needs to be some model for some sort of income.)

Mashable links take me to

http://mashable.com/2011/11/10/citizen-journalism-democracy/

This is like a time warp to about five years ago I think when I first came across OhmyNews, based in Korea. UK broadband is getting close now to where they were then. But there is still very limited awareness of the OhmyNews model. No mention in this story for example. They invest in editing. They make small payments for stories. They invest in training. I was invited to their conference. This was before the crash so sponsorship from an airline was possible. I don't really know what is happening at the moment. The English language version closed and I think the Japanese one also. But the model is sort of followed in a lot of different ways. Without getting as good a result, as far as I can remember.

I have started to put my own stories on Scribd, the archive is falling over sometimes.

Asiana Airlines was the sponsor by the way. Other airlines are available.

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The Mashable report on Citizen Journalism is written by Layla Revis

Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing.

There is a view coming from PR that is not quite the same as a view coming from what is called citizen journalism. This might continue at #likeminds later this month in Exeter UK.

notes from Wild Show today with guest Clive Chilvers #drupa #socialdrupa

Because of a technical problem there will be a delay in loading a copy of the show to Soundcloud. But below are some notes on what we discussed. I hope to connect this with drupa topics over the next week. Clive is a photographer and I think his situation is an interesting context for drupa issues. ( drupa is a print trade show still happening for about another week )

intro

http://www.clivechilvers.com/

http://www.meridianraw.com/

Meridian Raw is a community project for workshops in participatory photography. Clive described one project using disposable cameras. The negative was then scanned for digital display and distribution. ( Sorry, Clive explained a lot more which will be on the sound version, I am just sticking to the technical aspects at the moment)

Clive has a background in stills photography but is considering video. He notices the improvement in phone cameras but they are still too expensive to lend out to groups without setting up a risky situation.

There is still a role for hard copy but probably in quite short runs. There was an exhibit of photos from Meridian Raw photos in the Phoenix Bar earlier this year. Clive suggested that hard copy reaches a different audience to online.

There is a social benefit through Creative Commons but not in cases where context is important. Some photos need to be explained so control is needed over the way they are displayed. 

Clive has a view on current developments that is quite a challenge for the print industry. He seemed reasonably impressed with the new Forum on Exeter University campus. He is based at the Innovation Centre. He has used the new table top iPad style devices, suitable for group work. These are on the first floor. So the absence of a bookshop seems not to be a great concern.

He also arranges social media for TEDxExeter

http://www.tedxexeter.com/

http://www.tedxexeter.com/videos/  

Apparently there was a print based promotional set of materials prepared but the social media were enough to sell all the available spaces. This may be a special situation around the strong list of speakers but clearly the case for print has to be made.

TEDxExeter included discussions on sustainability. I mentioned the meetings at drupa supported earlier by Hewlett-Packard and at Print City today.

There is still another week of drupa so there may be more connections as content can be found online. It is likely that a future TEDxExeter will continue to include sustainability as an issue.

I hope Clive will come back again and continue this conversation.

Meanwhile Kodak’s chief blogger, Jennifer Cisney has claimed that this is the Social drupa. There is a related set of considerations for Canon, FujiFilm, Agfa and others. Based on my conversation with Clive it seems that communication through photography  continues and print is part of this but still having to work at it.

http://drupa2012.tumblr.com/post/22776081565/mobile-marketing-the-social-drupa-and-kodak

By the way, I'm not sure what the E in TED is for. Clive said it was Education. I thought it was Entertainment and this seems to be on the website.

http://www.tedxexeter.com/ted/

I don't see anything wrong with entertainment. And maybe education is getting mixed into all this. Continues on Twitter

@Clive_Chilvers

More on Wild Show, explanation for Kodak re drupa etc. #drupa @kodakCB

A bit more explanation about the Wild Show and why phoning in could be a problem.

I started on the Wild Show as a guest on the previous show in this time slot. So I am only learning gradually. Both Chris and JD are away this week so I can choose all the music and also talk about drupa more than usual. We have played the song a couple of times.

Three questions for you. If Kodak is concentrating on print and the patents on cameras are for transfer to phone companies, is there any guidance on which ones? I often use a Kodak Zi8 given to me at IPEX where my blog got me press credentials. But where to go next? Wifi would be good. Maybe you can't comment on this but any clues welcome.

Second, what do you think is happening at drupa with video and social media. The news seems to be Benny Landa and as far as I can tell his social media policy is not very advanced. Search on YouTube / Twitter finds a guitar player in New York. But it seems that for impact a trade show with a suitable demo is still working ok.

Do you think there will soon be a massive inkjet machine anywhere near Exeter UK. Our regional press is not that secure at the moment. If there was one in Bristol there could be regional variations on national publications. Examples from other locations would also be interesting.

@kodakCB

Just seen your tweet while writing this. Yes, YouTube would be excellent. There could be a link on our Facebook page and I will play the sound tomorrow.

Wild Show on Phonic FM Exeter to include some drupa conversation tomorrow #drupa

I will be presenting the Wild Show tomorrow between 10 and 12 UK time. email is studio@phonic.fm online as well as in an area reached FM from the roof of the Phoenix.

There will be some news from drupa. We already played the drupa song and the Heidelberg theme from YouTube. (Our theory is that anything on YouTube can be broadcast. Performing Rights etc all clear, regulation by OFCOM.

Topics to include sustainability and social media. We work with sound so this can be compared with print for views on rights control and mashup potential.

There won't be much time for talk etc even within two hours. I think a guest will turn up so there probably will be a focus on photography. But we have to play a lot of music and there is at least half an hour recorded from a recent Phonic benefit.

But any sound clips or links are welcome (mp3 quickest to load). Probably we will return to this in future shows. We like our gadgets but print is in the mix.

JD has recently found or created a QR code for the Facebook group. Just search for "Wild Show". If you can print it on to a T shirt or something and send a jpeg this would definitely be mentioned. 

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