MobileOK checker

Tim Berner’s Lee recently announced that the mobileOK checker is available as a beta from the W3C at:

validator.w3.org/mobile

I tested this blog on it and got back:

The following failures are fatal and prevent the checker from doing any further test on that page:

This page failed on 1 tests

The page is not XML well-formed. This test is related to the following Best Practices: VALID_MARKUP (techniques)

Interesting. So is Blogger not compliant at all?

Enjoy!

Agile Publishing Presentation

Back in November, I gave a talk at a Mark Logic sponsored event about Agile Publishing. I thought it would be great to share the presentation given there. Later on I plan to index all of my presentations around the net.

The Agile Publishing Imperative: Accelerate the Creation of Information Products

Enjoy.

Google Develops Wikipedia Rival

Interesting. Googlie is challenging the annonymous/collective author principle of Wikipedia by developing a similar product with authored articles.

Belated Congrats

Congratulations to all of my students from NYU's Introduction to Interactive Publishing.

You were a terrific group to teach. Each of you made a real effort to participate each week in class and also on the class blog. Your final projects -- individual blogs -- were a real treat. I was very impressed with the progress made by each of you. I hope that you all keep your blogs alive. I will be looking!

I encourage you to keep posting to this blog too. You are what it made it special to begin with.

Stay in touch.

eBooks: Good for Publishing?

Tim O'Reilly on Amazon's Kindle: "My advice to publishers and authors is this: figure out what it costs to produce what you sell, estimate what kind of volume you'll be able to achieve using the best available data, and then set your prices at a level that will deliver a reasonable profit from your efforts. Sound familiar?"