This is the end of publishing, by Penguin.
Annotating YouTube Videos Using Its Just Announced Auto-Caption Program?
YouTube is adding automated captions to its videos. Aside from the obvious benefits, this also allows for very specific annotations.
Video is an ‘external-paced medium’ which means as viewer you can’t decide how fast you consume the given information. You just have to go along with the speed the maker of the video decided. This is a big different with texts, which are internal-paced (the reader decides the speed and rhythm). The fact text is internal-paced makes it possible for people to annotate it. Something which is really difficult with video.
However, with YouTube introducing captions for every video, this means you could theoretically have the text besides the video, so you can watch the video and highlight interesting content, write a quick comment and expand it after watching the full thing.
Very interesting. Perhaps something we at *openmargin might work on in the future.
Penguin’s interactive iPad-books
Quick review: Bite-Size Edits
Bite-Size Edits is a game where players get points for editing. Discover new writers and engage with great authors, while improving the world’s sentences.
Bite-Size Edits was first built to allow authors to crowdsource the editing process by utilizing their social network. The idea is a lot of people get a random piece of text. They are then asked to suggest changes if deemed necessary. All changes are then displayed to the original author who can accept or ignore the edits.
Of course editing contextless pieces of texts becomes a less enjoyable experience once the ‘newness’ wears off, so that’s why recently a gaming element was added. You can rack up points by suggesting edits and as of yesterday these points can earn you free ebooks as well.
I don’t know a lot about book editing, so I can’t judge whether it’s economically an improvement (the service doesn’t cost any money, but does cost quiet some time to moderate the suggestion I can imagine). What I do know though, is the fact it’s an interesting way to foster a community around an upcoming book, so I’m looking forward to further developments at this platform!
(Dutch) 'Hervorming auteursrechten onvermijdelijk'
Een fundamentele hervorming van auteursrechten is onvermijdelijk en daarbij zal de positie van de burger moeten worden versterkt, aldus europarlementariër Christiaan Engström van de Zweedse Piraten Partij.
Happy Birthday *openmargin
One year ago we (Ruth, Marc, Joep) were having dinner in a pizzeria in Prague (http://bit.ly/atzRTO).
There we had a brainstorm (ripped placemats as post-its) about our expectations for the post-school era, with ourselves as a starting point.
A few months later, there was the birth of *openmargin. But the very first seeds were planted in this meeting.
We want the very first beginning to be the birthday of *openmargin.
What we’re giving to *openmargin as a present?
- An addition to the team, in the form of new, devoted people who will help this platform with the first steps.
More about this in the near future!
Beautiful art project, with different perspectives on the same letter.
Elisabeth Murdoch, Ross Pruden: Social networking, media as experience
“Fans remain the best salesmen of our content, even if that behavior is on the borderline of piracy. Danger of the new world is that we must concede that we’ll lose some control.”
The reader for iPad looks beautiful. But the question is, will we still flip digital paper pages, 100 years from now?
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