March 2012
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The New Press Turns 20
Today is the 20th anniversary of The New Press, the not-for-profit publisher that has smartly bridged the gap between academic and trade founded by Andre Schiffrin, after leading Pantheon Books for three decades, and current Executive Director Diane Wachtell.
I was an intern at The New Press the summer after my freshman year and to this day recall how fully involved the entire staff was in...
January 2012
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Isn't Piracy Missing the Point?
Given the the delayed SOPA/PIPA voting and Code Meet Print’s continued exploration of innovation across content experiences as well as commerce models, I thought it would be pertinent to assemble a different flavor of speakers for the next #CMPNY Meetup.*
A Call for Submissions: Please respond with ideas/suggestions or hopes/dreams of people who hold sway within media, publishing, IP law,...
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"The Miracle Worker" by Mia Alvar in The Missouri...
One of our (dear) Code Meet Print members, Mia Alvar, has a wonderful short story just published in the The Missouri Review winter issue. “‘The Miracle Worker’ is a part of a collection about Filipino exiles, immigrants and wanderers who uproot their families, settle on alien ground and struggle to connect across real and imagined borders,” says the author.
A year had...
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“But there are two ways to solve problems: One of them is implementing a feature,...”
– “So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?” Mediabistro, 27 August 2008
December 2011
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Code Meet Presents: 11 Texts + Tech Holiday Gifts
I couldn’t resist doing a list.
Please find below a little list of gifts to for friends, family, and kids across the intersections of Texts, Tech, Media, and well, great reading.
1. The Broadcast
Since we can’t easily show off our exquisite taste in reading to other subway and coffee-shop-goers in the age of digital, why not let the world know what books you love with an iPhone...
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The "Prognostications: 2012" Twitter #VSS Winner
The 4th installment of our Twitter Very Short Story Contest at the #CMPNY Version 4.0 “Content + Conversation” meetup at General Assembly incited raucous (in its own way) voting, as 2 of the 7 finalists (@cmensher and @BritBlalock) were so close we had to repeat the process, just for them.
In the end, it was Corey Menscher, Co-Founder of Findings (and one of our distinguished speakers...
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November 2011
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#CMPNY Version 4.0: "Content + Conversation"...
Code Meet Print [NY] continues our exploration of innovation around Texts + Tech with demos + dialogue at Version 4.0: “Content + Conversation” Presented by General Assembly - December 6th at 7PM, with a fantastic lineup:
Findings - Co-Founder Corey Menscher presents the Betaworks company that lets you store, share, and search snippets of text from eBooks and web pages, including...
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The Laboratory: NYC Startup Weekend
Some exciting news is afoot, beginning with a Partnership with NYC Startup Weekend! NYCSW is a series of Weekend events where Designers, Technologists, and Business-Strategy folks form small groups and build web and mobile apps that “could form the basis of a business”. You might have heard of Zaarly, which got its start by winning Startup Weekend LA at the beginning of 2011 and...
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Code Meet Print Toronto: Reading is Social
People are approaching reading differently and engaging the reader now involves Social Platforms, Game Mechanics and Crowd Sourcing to mention a few.
This Wednesday November 23rd, Code Meet Print Toronto explores, with:
Tim Maly - Tim runs quietbabylon.com and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, East of the Web, Icon, and Volume Magazine. He enjoys giving talks about cyborgs,...
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October 2011
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The Atavist: Building Tools for Ourselves (And...
In “The Business of Publishing” Session II, Co-Founders Evan Ratliff and Jeff Rabb spoke candidly about the process of building The Atavist, both long-form journalism digital imprint and now media-rich content-management-system currently deployed as SaaS to big publishers like Pearson.
“In some ways, the business of publishing is 45 minutes of setup.. acquire a domain, host a...
September 2011
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"I would argue, rather, that books saved Oprah"
It’s easy for people to mistake books for merely source material to bigger, glitzier, glossier things. They have at times become a footnote, a hyperlinked-reference within (extremely) louder, (incredibly) closer sound bytes, moving images, headlines, and bullet-points. For Session I of The Business of Publishing, Richard Nash unsurprisingly (and compellingly) laid bare this perspective. He...
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The Classroom Opens: "The Business of Publishing"...
While Code Meet Print has demonstrated the value of Community to the contemplation and creation of innovative processes and products across Texts + Tech, we are proud to take our next step in helping leaders across disciplines teach and learn and experiment around the #FutureOfStorytelling.
We are thrilled to announce our first Education Series:
The Business of Publishing, presented by Code Meet...
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#CMPNY Version 3.0: "Reader. Writer. Interface."
Code Meet Print NY continues our series of Innovation Demonstration (+Dialogue) around Texts + Tech with Version 3.0: “Reader. Writer. Interface.” Presented by General Assembly - September 20th at 7PM, with provoking presentations/demos by:
Readability - Initially a reading tool from Arc90 (codebase in Flipboard + Safari 5), it has now swelled into a popular uncluttered reading...
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True Disruption in Publishing Is Yet to Come
PageMaker started something big, back in 1985. Blogs have pushed things further and wider than ever before. The Kindle is a high-resolution prototype; hugely significant, but possibly just the first chapter’s last page.
True disruptive facilitation of markedly new behaviors across the creation, experience, distribution, consumption, (and other behaviors, yet to be imagined) of content and...