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“Getting it done”

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:23:16 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:35:03 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:15:46 +0000

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).