This is not the future of the book

Tom was in Montréal the other day for a conference and we recorded a podcast episode reviewing what has happened in the two years that have passed since the last episode.

In this episode we talk abo…

In this episode we cover conferences, production systems, W.E. Deming, David Pye, and more

• We start off by criticising the idea that conferences are educational. Baldur refers to a two year old b…

Some thoughts on where to go from wherever you are. Most of us aren’t in the position of even trying to make the same mistakes Touchpress did. What approaches can the rest of us take towards making n…

Some thoughts prompted by Touchpress’s pivot.

• Touchpress, who?
• The core problem with the app stores.
• The difference between bookstores and digital markets.
• The importance in digital of havi…

In this episode we worry about digital publishing not moving forward to the future:

• How do we get ebooks and the like moving forward without wholesale destruction?
• We also respond to that Hacka…

In this one we cover the following thingamajigs:

• Baldur talks about what it feels like to anticipate that the mainstream will coincide with your interests but then watching it go into a different…

Where is our magical sci-fi utopia of wonderful brilliant digital things? Why didn’t the brilliant innovations in our digital past lead to a glorious present?

Inevitably this leads to some thoughts …

The kitchen talks continue. This time we (Baldur and Tom) talk about: the differing qualities of digital and print; how they can complement each other; how they suffer if you ignore their strengths a…

In which we (Baldur and Tom), again in Tom’s kitchen, cover a bit of the history of interactive media so far and why it’s important to be aware of it. We also talk about how most people aren’t as abs…

In which we (Baldur and Tom) sit in Tom’s kitchen and talk about the importance of naming things in interactive media and storytelling in general. It is almost exactly an hour long.

May contain swea…