Shane Snow Helps Freelance Writers Online
Recent graduate of TechStars NYC and #CMPNY Version 3.0 Presenter Shane Snow of Contently shares some illuminating startup lessons learned with Schuyler Brown of Founders@Fail. “Founders@Fail shares the stories behind what it really takes to build a business, launch a product, and raise funding. The stories may not be pretty, but for aspiring entrepreneurs, they’ll […]
The Atavist: Building Tools for Ourselves (And Many Others)
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 […]
“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 […]
The Classroom Opens: “The Business of Publishing” at General Assembly Sep-Oct 2011
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 […]
#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 experience on web/mobile that […]
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 […]