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		<title>eBooks vs real books: a mythical publishing tale</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2012/01/ebooks-vs-real-books-a-mythical-publishing-tale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Bedford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Mount Kyllini the Publishing Gods were in filthy moods. Sales were down, bookshops were closing and worse, they&#8217;d been called together to consider a membership application. &#8216;What&#8217;s the applicant&#8217;s name?&#8217; asked the God of Hardback, unable to hide his boredom. The Goddess of Paperback leaned back in her chair, causing her spine to crack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media: dangers in the backchannel?</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/11/social-media-dangers-in-the-backchannel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Helmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with social media will know that using it as a backchannel is not an option you switch on or off. It is, inherently, at least 50% backchannel. Social media&#8217;s most salient characteristic, in fact, is its interactivity. So much so that one has trouble disentangling message &#8216;push&#8217; from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The digital divide: past, present and future</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/11/the-digital-divide-past-present-and-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clare Wratten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s your chance to listen to Richard Padley being interviewed at the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing conference in Frankfurt. He spoke at the conference about mobile platforms from the perspective of publishers faced with multiple delivery models including apps and the web. Have a listen and let us know what you think. http://soundcloud.com/toolsforchange/the-digital-divide-past# [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone reads digital these days; books are so last year.</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/10/everyone-reads-digital-these-days-books-are-so-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Bedford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day my father lugged home a LaserDisc player, I was sure we&#8217;d entered the space age. It weighed as much as a small car, but its silver disks were things of futuristic beauty. I held cinema days for friends. &#8216;It&#8217;s great,&#8217; they said. &#8216;Really groovy&#8217; – this was the early 80&#8242;s – &#8216;But can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m getting mad (with Marshall McLuhan)</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/08/im-getting-mad-with-marshall-mcluhan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Yates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would imagine that Understanding Media (1964) is surely one of those books – like Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Klein's No Logo – owned by many yet read by few. Great then, on the occasion of McLuhan's centenary to be able to remind oneself of his ideas <a href="http://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/">online</a> over a sandwich.

Through Tom Wolfe's excellent<a href="http://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/introduction/"> introduction</a> I learned of the influence on McLuhan of catholic mystic Teilhard de Chardin. Now, in writing this, I thought it'd be useful to link through to the excellent entry on de Chardin (who shaped the religious and intellectual outlook many a mid-century catholic intellectual including Belloc, Chesterton and Auden amongst others) in the ODNB. But if I did that, the majority would end up <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/">here</a>, on a page so utterly dreadful that it is to user experience what <a href="http://www.fatburger.com/">Fat Burger</a> is to healthy eating. Instead I have few choices but to direct you to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin">here</a>. More depressingly, and completely unsurprisingly, if you Google 'de Chardin' the first result is from Wikipedia and you give up long, long before you find a scholarly hit in the results.]]></description>
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		<title>Will e-reading make us stupid?</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/08/will-e-reading-make-us-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Helmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Gartner report marked a minor milestone for e-reading. Apparently, time spent reading on screen is now almost equal to the time spent reading printed paper text. And this apparent vote in favour of digital by readers is not only quantitative but also qualitative: 'The huge majority of tablet and iPad users say they find screen reading either easier than reading printed text (52%) or about the same (42%)'.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to integrate Push Pop&#039;s enhanced ebook technology</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/08/facebook-to-integrate-push-pops-enhanced-ebook-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.semantico.com/2011/08/facebook-to-integrate-push-pops-enhanced-ebook-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clare Wratten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press, creators of Al Gore&#8217;s enhanced ebook Our Choice (full story here). This doesn&#8217;t mean that Facebook is going to start publishing ebooks. &#8220;The ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories,&#8221; explain co-founders Mike Matas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to get paranoid about Android?</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/05/time-to-get-paranoid-about-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 08:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Helmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Followers of this blog will have read quite a bit about Apple products for which we make no apologies. After all, Apple has been making most of the running in developing both the smartphone and the tablet computer as serious platforms for publisher content. Up to now, that is. Recent reports show Apple is facing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With one bound, the publisher was free: social media to the rescue?</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/04/with-one-bound-the-publisher-was-free-social-media-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Helmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major irritant for publishers in recent times has been the emergence of new gatekeepers in their supply chain, principally Google, Amazon and Apple. Now help in derailing these tech behemoths seems at hand, albeit help from an unlikely quarter. Many forward thinkers in publishing see social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) as a way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content too dynamic to go native? Hybrid Apps might be the answer &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.semantico.com/2011/03/content-too-dynamic-to-go-native-hybrid-apps-might-be-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.semantico.com/2011/03/content-too-dynamic-to-go-native-hybrid-apps-might-be-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin Dunne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things move quickly in the world of mobile content delivery. Less than a year ago it seemed that publishers faced two routes when it came to developing resources for users to access digitally through their PC, Mac, iPad or Android device: either they chose to go down the mobile-optimised website route (web apps) or they [...]]]></description>
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