Lunchtime Links

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Mike Rankin

In anticipation of the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference, today’s menu of lunch links has a mostly “changey” flavor. As opposed to my usual links, which often taste like chicken. iPublishCentral is a solution by Impelsys that allows Publishers to upload PDFs and build marketing and distribution tools around them. Everything from Flash-enabled micro widgets [...]

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The Life of O’Reilly

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Mike Rankin

I’m happy to announce that next Monday and Tuesday I will be in New York attending the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. With all the bad news permeating the publishing world, it will be a welcome change to be immersed in the technology and the vision of people focused on future of publishing. I’ll be gathering [...]

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My New Pal

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Mike Rankin

During the last year I’ve moved three times at work, and each time I’ve tried to shed some of the sticky detritus of my career in publishing. It’s cube crap, unused in years, but somehow always avoiding the trash bin. Outdated manuals, mystery dongles, piles of spec guide binders, a small moose made of binder [...]

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Streamlining InDesign Templates with Cinnamon

Posted on April 13, 2008 by cinnamoncooper

Michael kindly offered to have me share a few things that I’ve learned in my years working in publishing. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share, and hopeful that a few of my “learned the hard way” lessons can make someone else’s job much easier. I’ve been working, in various aspects, of the printing industry [...]

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Test Drive A Hybrid Workflow

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Mike Rankin

You never know where inspiration will come from. Yesterday it came to me in the form of a traffic jam slowing my ride to work. Sitting on the commuter bus, mired in “bumpa-ta-bumpa”, I stared out the window. Life on pause. I imagined the lake of gasoline that was fueling all these cars, puffing out [...]

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