Archive for the ‘writing’ Category

“Getting it done”

Friday, May 30th, 2008

A List Apart has an article on the relationship between web design and copy-editing (Scotproof’s two main services) and how having an editor on board can move a design project forward more quickly and, of course, result in better copy.

See: The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome.

Old papers

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

I’ve recently added a list of my research publications here. Almost all are on ebook design (a few are on ontologies/Semantic Web) and the most recent was written in 2005, but I wanted to keep a list somewhere.

If anyone’s actually interested in old papers on ebooks, three of the more readable ones are available online/downloadable:

With M. Landoni, Evaluating the Usability of Portable Electronic Books (PDF), Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Melbourne, Florida, USA. 2003. pp. 564-568

Displaying Digital Information on Paper-like Devices, JISC Technology and Standards Watch report, January 2003

Evolution of Portable Electronic Books, Ariadne, Issue 29, October 2001

Tolkien

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Finally I’ve made an electronic copy of my undergrad dissertation, ten years after submission: JRR Tolkien and the Definition of Literature, typos preserved. It’s a large PDF (3.3 MB).