Code Meet Print

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, technology, government, or anywhere at their intersections that might lend their expertise, perspectives, and/or invectives toward the state of affairs of content and its oscillating boundaries.

Perhaps one of these people is you, or a colleague, or a distant cousin?

I have some people in mind, but I think it’s time to hear more from you, those that make Code Meet Print excellent, thoughtful, engaging, cheeky. 

A possible Prompt: “Isn’t Piracy Missing the Point?”

Have at it, ladies and gentlemen.**

-GN

*Sometime in Middlemarch. Or the cruellest month.

**Feel free to post/share any pertinent SOPA/PIPA articles for our shared knowledge base here. Feel similarly about any invectives (yours or otherwise) thereof.

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 for the evening) who was the victor.*

Congratulations Mr. Menscher!  A Kindle Fire is on its way.

*His #VSS prompted a snap-survey which revealed that the vast majority of even this bookish tech group had not (yet?) read Ulysses.

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 integration with Kindle highlights (more options on the way). Findings gives you the ability to share those quotes and follow other people’s quotes through your timeline.
• Urtak - Co-Founder Marc Lizoain and recent TechStars NYC grad presents the powerful question and answer tool (used byAndrew Sullivan/The Daily Beast) that creates more engaged, measurable responses to content across internet media (over 100x more than Comments). Anyone can answer or create an Urtak of their own.
• MAZ - Co-Founder Paul Canetti demonstrates MagAppZine, the digital publishing platform that allows magazine publishers to create and manage iPad Newsstand apps easily and affordably without a developer, including a toolset for video, audio, and web content. MAZ is deployed with 100s of publishers with readers in over 75 countries.  
• Projeqt - Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director at TBWA David Lee demonstrates the cloud-based storytelling platform that allows you to create dynamic, artful stories: presentations, reports, portfolios, and websites. This device-agnostic HTML5 platform lets you pull live tweets, audio, video, and other rich media.
• Plus a Group Talkback/Q+A featuring the distinguished Presenters above!

Announcing the Fourth #CMPNY Twitter Very Short Story Contest:

“Prognostications: 2012 #VSS”

• Code Meet Print invites you to submit your “Prognostications: 2012” - A Very Short Story of things to come at the intersection of Media + Tech in 2012
• Tweet your submission beginning with: “@codemeetprint #vss #2012” (You will then have 114 characters for your entry)
• VOTING: Get your audience + fans + friends to vote for your story via Retweet!
• SEVEN FINALISTS will be the Top 7 Crowdsourced Retweets by 3PM on December 6th
• Winner will be voted on by attendees of #CMPNY Version 4.0, and will receive a new Kindle Fire!

*Beer and Wine during Version 4.0: “Content+ Conversation” provided by our presenting host and partner, General Assembly!

**Stay tuned for more details on our partnership with NYC Startup Weekend to open the Code Meet Print Laboratory in early 2012!

Get tickets here. Exited to see you all there! 

Glenn | @codemeetprint | @soonisnow 

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, architects, and our weird future.

• Tony O’Donoghue - Tony is the Kobo lead on Reading Life and Pulse (cool new “comment in text” and “read other people’s notes” thing)

• Erin Balser - Erin is Associate Producer, CBC Canada Reads & CBC Book Club/Freelance Writer/Awesome Person

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 prototypes direct support for publishers + writers; Richard Ziade of Arc90 presents
• OnSwipe - Co-Founder Jason Baptiste presents the “insanely easy” platform for publishers of all sizes (Forbes, Hearst, WordPress blogs) to transform content + advertising to beautiful experiences on touch-enabled browsers (TechStars NYC grad) 
• Contently - Co-Founder Shane Snow presents the platform for brands (like Mint.com) to craft + optimize high quality content strategies with editorial tools, engagement tracking, + journalists/pro bloggers sourcing (current TechStars NYC class)
• submishmash* - Co-Founder Michael Fitzgerald discusses the leading cloud-based online submission management system used by 2000+ publishers (Tin House, Good Magazine, Fence Books) + organizations to efficiently intake and curate text + media submissions
• Plus a Group Talkback/Q+A featuring the distinguished Presenters above!

Announcing The Third #CMPNY Twitter Very Short Story Contest:

“Dispatch from Dystopia #VSS” - Judged by  Editors from Bookish.com 

• Bookish.com + Code Meet Print NY invite you to submit your “Dispatch from Dystopia” - A sentence or micro-chapter of your chronicle of a dystopian future
• Tweet your submission beginning with: “@cmp_ny #vss #DisDys” (You will then have 119 characters for your entry)
• VOTING: Get your audience + fans + friends to vote for your story via Retweet!
• FINALISTS will be the Top 7 Crowdsourced Retweets by 3PM on September 20th
• ALL 7 finalists will be PUBLISHED in Bookish.com’s experimental Future of Publishing Book Project slotted for 2012. (Help vote up the Panel Proposal for SXSW 2012!)
• Winner will be selected by Rachel Fershleiser and Jonny Segura, of Bookish.com and highlighted as Top Selection in the Bookish.com Future of Publishing Project

Beer and Wine during Version 3.0: “Reader. Writer. Interface” provided by our presenting host and partner, General Assembly!

*Special Perk offered to all PrinTechies (Publishers, Editors!) from submishmash - see “Member Perks”, below left on the CMPNY Homepage

**General Assembly + Code Meet Print NY will be Co-Presenting a “Business of Publishing” 3-Part Seminar Series (featuring Richard Nash and Jacob Lewis) on September 26, October 3, and October 10th. Stay tuned for more details..

Exited to see you all there!

Glenn | @cmp_ny | @soonisnow