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From Thunderbirds to the Hobbits

Richard Taylor with his Weta-shirt and Martin Baynton with a WotWots-shirt In less than four weeks „The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey“ will have it’s world premiere in Wellington, the capital of New...

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“A news organization should have started Waze”– Jeff Jarvis about journalism...

Why is Waze the fastest growing traffic community? Because it helps users to help each other to avoid traffic. Jeff Jarvis argues that journalism, too, should be more useful. Journalists and news...

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Start-ups and their digital habitat

Old start-ups are the new oligopoly Commenting on the acquisition of the Washington Post by Jeff Bezos, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung finds that the world is succumbing to a...

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Simon Worthington wants to pull in the vectors through hybrid publishing

Simon Worthington is involved in hybrid publishing at the Innovation Incubator of the Leuphana Universität  Lüneburg. His web- und print magazine Mute is based on a hybrid concept which will be...

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Aleks Krotoski: “The post-modern ideas of identity and community have a home...

Aleks Krotoski is a social psychologist and a science journalist. For many years, she has been studying and communicating how the web is changing us and our society. She publishes knowledge from the...

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Paperight Wins Startup Showcase

South African startup Paperight was announced as the winner of the Contec Startup Showcase at the final session of the conference in the Marriott last night, 8th October 2013. The company is tackling...

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Bringing Digital Thinking To Print Publishing

Tal Oron, Founder of Lostmy.name, has an engaging way about him and a charming manner. Which is a bonus because he also has an interesting story to tell, about he and his co-founders of Lostmy.name, 3...

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Unbound publishes books that authors want to write

John Mitchinson is a British author and publisher with many years of industry experience. Therefore he knew which problems he wanted to tackle when he founded the unconventional publishing platform...

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The book as software

His cufflinks – small pencils – are a memento of the old days. Around us during the break at the CONTEC Conference, participants are typing notes into their smartphones or making quick Skype calls, and...

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The Digital Us

From an external perspective I am part of the Berlin start-up scene. But viewed from the inside, my publishing house feels more like a work of art, not an artefact but performative art. I am very much...

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