I was invited to do a panel on Social Media for Authors at the Writers’ Union of Canada AGM. Writer Nichole McGill was the moderator, and I was joined by the wonderful Jenny Bullough, of the visionary publishing house Harlequin. (Harlequin is the most clued-in about digital of all the publishers I know of, along [...]
Ever since Book Oven shifted focus in November 2009 to Bite-Size Edits, I have been wanting to write about one of the major reasons for the shift: my realization that:
a) the world needs an open book-publishing platform
b) rather than building from scratch at Book Oven, we should have started with Wordpress, and built atop it.
I [...]
Hey, have any of you heard of the New Yorker? Some kind of big-shot magazine, I think? Out of New York, I guess. Anyway, Macy Halford over there wrote a nice little piece about Bite-Size Edits.
It might seem counterintuitive that someone who spends her days editing onscreen, like me, would want to spend her [...]
We just launched Bite-Size Edits as a stand-alone site, a bare-bones collaborative editing engine (see here for a bit of detail). We’ll be adding more features back in, and some really exciting new ones. It’ll be a brand new way for readers, writers and editors to engage with each other.
In the mean time, we [...]
When we started Book Oven, we came up with this … intriguing … idea of Bite-Size Edits, a new way to think about proofreading. Proofreading and copyediting are tough, honorable jobs, and they’re essential for the production of good texts.
But, what if you could break up the job of a proofreader, let a few [...]
Every November, hundreds of thousands of writers commit themselves to the maddest of madnesses: writing a 50,000-word novel in one month, for Nanowrimo, the National Novel Writing Month.
It’s a time of creativity, chaos, angst, nerves, procrastination, excitement, and sheer folly, a colossal celebration of passion for the written word.
It’s also a time, let’s face it, [...]
We originally built Bite-Size Edits for proofreading, but it was always in our minds that there might be a translation angle as well. So when Jason Prince asked us about using Bite-Size Edits to do “social-translation” of an important book about urban planning, cars, and a big highway interchange reconstruction plan in Montreal, we said: [...]
We’ve made some changes at Book Oven! We’ve done some design tweaks to the dashboard, and opened up some new features so that they’re easier to see and use. As always, we would love to get more feedback on our feedback page (which now – hooray! – does not require you to sign in [...]
Jon Udell is one of the great thinkers about technology, particularly about how technology can be used to do useful things in society. He was one of the first “famous” fans of LibriVox.
So I was happy to be able to talk to Jon on IT Conversations this week about Book Oven. You can listen [...]
Il y’a une petite article dans L’Actualité (Sept 09) sur Book Oven et LibriVox:
« Le numérique ne tuera pas l’édition traditionnelle, mais il va la changer », dit Hugh McGuire. Cet ancien ingénieur en mécanique âgé de 35 ans lançait en 2007 un autre collectif, Earideas, qui recense les balados (podcasts) de l’heure sur le Web. [...]
