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?"

Music blog aggregator

I surf through a lot of music blogs in my spare time, so I decided to try and compile what each of them are covering at AggRockBlog. The site focuses on NYC rock music. It's a little busy, but I wanted to get all of my favorite sites on there.

-B.Miller

Bayern Blog

This somehow became more of a homepage than a blog. I'd been wanting to make a site to put up a list of my husbands publications, and I thought I'd combine it with the class project. Let me just say in my defense that I am not one of those people who goes nuts and sends pics of their kids all over the place. BUT I find that people seem to think they have to ask me to send pics of my son, and then I have to bother sending them, and then they feel obliged to say something nice about how he looks. And worse: my mother-in-law has threatened to come and visit more often because she wants to see how her grandson develops. So I decided to make a blog where the family abroad can follow him along in his development. Since I just got a Mac I used the iWeb program, which turns out to be very Web 1.0 - it wouldn't really allow me to do anything fancy like cool widgets, voting, etc. But I did include a Google Ad to see if that would make me easier to google...

My Blog

My blog is Green Yard Escape and it's inspired by my efforts to make my suburban yard more "green." Let me know what you think.

NYU 2008 Continuing Education and Certificate Program

NYU’s Continuing Education and Certificate Program:
Highlights of the 2007-2008 Academic Year

This spring, the Continuing Education and Certificate program at NYU’s Center for Publishing is offering leading-edge courses designed to prepare you for a fast-paced industry in which traditional and digital media are rapidly converging. In addition to integrating digital publishing into our curriculum, we have created many "how to, hands-on" courses that will give you the practical knowledge you need to further your professional development.

Explore Editing, Marketing and Branding
Publishing has never been so captivating—and so complicated—as editors take on expanded roles creating brand extensions for their core products. The following new courses will help you refine and expand not only your editing skills and mindset, but grasp the latest print and online marketing and promotional tips from the pros.

• X59.9122 New! How to Be a Book Editor: An Inside Look at the Editorial Process
• X59.9521 New! Magazine Editing Workshop
• X59.9908 New! Promotional Writing That Works: How to Create Great Marketing Copy for Print and Online
• X59.9551 New! Brand Development: Maximizing Your Magazine's Potential
• X59.9580 New! Inside the Business of Magazines

Delve into Digital
Worried that you don’t have all those digital skills everyone says you need to succeed? There’s a whole new world of digital publishing and we invite you to explore it in these courses.

• X59.9960 New! Blogging Your Way to Profitability
• X59.9221 New! Everything You Need to Know about Digital Publishing in the Book Industry: An Introduction for the Non-Techie
• X59.9966 New! Crossing the Digital Divide: What Print Professionals Need to Know

Find Your Way Freelancing

Writing is the cornerstone of publishing careers. Develop your skills and discover additional opportunities for your career in these exciting new courses.

• X59.9192 New! Freelance Opportunities in Book Publishing
• X59.9530 New! Freelance Opportunities in Magazine Publishing
• X59.9141 New! How to Get Published: A Toolkit for Aspiring Authors

These new offerings are just a selection of our full roster of more than 40 courses. For a complete listing of our courses and to register, please visit the NYU website at http://scps.nyu.edu/publishing. If you have specific questions, please call 212-998-7171 or email pub.center@nyu.edu.

Build a Certificate
You can register for individual courses or start building a Certificate in Editing or Publishing. This valuable credential, recognized by the publishing industry, requires you to take at least five courses over a four-year period. Each of these new courses directly applies to the Editing and Publishing Certificate Programs.

Master of Science in Publishing
Interested in making an even stronger commitment to the publishing industry? If so, you may want to consider NYU’s M.S. in Publishing. This 42-credit graduate degree provides an extensive and in-depth look at all aspects of the industry, including editing, marketing and branding, finance, sales, advertising, law, management and new business development—as well as all the digital skills needed to succeed in this era of multi-platform publishing. All classes are in the evenings and are taught by major leaders in the industry. You can mold the program to your schedule and needs, taking from one to four courses a semester. This valuable degree, recognized by the industry, is designed to educate a new generation

Credit for Class

Great News! I just received the following word from NYU:

At NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, students in our non-degree program can register for individual courses or start building a Certificate in Editing or Publishing. This valuable credential, recognized by the publishing industry, requires you to take at least five courses over a four-year period. Introduction to Interactive Publishing (X59.9221) directly applies to the Publishing Certificate Program in either the book or magazine concentration.

For a complete listing of our courses and to register, please visit the NYU website at http://scps.nyu.edu/publishing. If you have specific questions, please call 212-998-7171 or email pub.center@nyu.edu.