08/26/2010 - 8:59am

Industries that sell products which can be digitized are grappling with everything from revenue to new business models and the book publishing industry is no exception to this rule. News broke over the weekend that famed Marketing thinker/doer and...

08/26/2010 - 12:12am

Following the ninth round of ACTA negotiations in Lucerne, Switzerland in July, it became apparent (after the updated ACTA leaked) that the U.S. had caved on some of its demands to include DMCA-like anti-circumvention language in ACTA.  The...

08/26/2010 - 12:08am

A new article forthcoming in the prestigious Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA attempts to estimate the economic impact of Google Book Search on the publishing industry.  The study finds no evidence of negative impact and some...

08/24/2010 - 8:56pm

Industries that sell products which can be digitized are grappling with everything from revenue to new business models and the book publishing industry is no exception to this rule. News broke over the weekend that famed Marketing thinker/doer and...

08/24/2010 - 12:17am

Several writers groups have written to Industry Minister Tony Clement and Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore to criticize elements of Bill C-32.  The letter focuses on the fair dealing exception for education: From our perspective the...

08/24/2010 - 12:15am

Postmedia covers the mounting concern over the Access Copyright tariff proposal with a story on how the tariff could stifle Internet users and researchers.

08/24/2010 - 12:13am

Many people have written to point to this interesting article in Der Spiegel, which points to a new book that concludes that German's rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century may have been due to the absence of copyright law.

08/23/2010 - 9:03am

One of the main tenets of Social Media was the reality that brands could join a conversation (to quote my good friend, Joseph Jaffe), but by the looks of things there aren't really any conversations happening at all. It's not just Jaffe who pushed...
One of the main tenets of Social Media was the reality that brands could join a conversation (to quote my good friend, Joseph Jaffe), but by the looks of things there aren't really any conversations happening at all. It's not just Jaffe who pushed...

08/22/2010 - 8:19pm

Episode #216 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This episode is proof positive that Social Media and the changes in the Digital Marketing landscape sometimes do happen with lightning...

08/22/2010 - 8:18pm

Episode #216 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This episode is proof positive that Social Media and the changes in the Digital Marketing landscape sometimes do happen with lightning...

08/21/2010 - 8:01pm

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth:...

08/21/2010 - 8:00pm

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth:...

08/21/2010 - 5:06am

Round ten of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations in Washington concluded on Friday with countries confirming progress on all fronts and hopes to reach agreement on all remaining substantive issues at the next round in...

08/20/2010 - 9:28pm

"What are we doing on Twitter?" "What are we doing on Facebook?" "What are we doing on YouTube?" You've heard these questions a million times in a million different meetings. For the past long while, I have raged...

08/20/2010 - 9:27pm

"What are we doing on Twitter?" "What are we doing on Facebook?" "What are we doing on YouTube?" You've heard these questions a million times in a million different meetings. For the past long while, I have raged...

08/20/2010 - 3:24pm

When you think about the Internet, what do you think about? Google and Verizon in the U.S. came together to propose a new direction for both the Internet and the future of wireless connectivity that seems to be ruffling many feathers within the...

08/19/2010 - 7:16pm

When you think about the Internet, what do you think about? Google and Verizon in the U.S. came together to propose a new direction for both the Internet and the future of wireless connectivity that seems to be ruffling many feathers within the...

08/18/2010 - 9:31pm

How much value does the comments section of a Blog add to your Social Media experience? Before even getting into the main thrust of this Blog post, let me - personally - state that I am well aware that this debate probably lived (and died) back in...

08/18/2010 - 9:30pm

How much value does the comments section of a Blog add to your Social Media experience? Before even getting into the main thrust of this Blog post, let me - personally - state that I am well aware that this debate probably lived (and died) back in...