I’ve been mucking about with groff. With what, you ask? Groff! Otherwise known as GNU Troff, and if that doesn’t clue you in (it probably doesn’t), then let me explain.
Troff is an oooooold Unix tool for typesetting. It was born way, way back in the early 1970s as part of the original Unix documentation toolkit. [...]
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Groff – a #retrotech project
by jmax on 30. Jun, 2011 in Opinion
#retrotech and Early Digital Innovation at Coach House
by jmax on 22. Jun, 2011 in announcements
In early June this year I went to Ottawa and Toronto as a major research piece for my “early tech history at Coach House Press” project. SSHRC came up with a bit of money to dredge through the archives of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Coach House Press has been at the bleeding [...]
Speaking at Editors Association of Canada, May 29
by jmax on 25. May, 2011 in Talks
I’ll be giving a talk at the EAC 2011 conference in Vancouver this weekend, titled “Re-imagining Publishing as if the Web Mattered.” Here are notes/slides toward that.
The World Wide Web has established itself as the dominant publishing platform of our time, and of the future. So why do so many book and magazine [...]
PubWest 2010
by jmax on 01. Nov, 2010 in announcements
I’ll be at the Publishers Association of the West conference in Santa Fe NM, later this weekâand I’m stoked about that. November in Vancouver is dark and wet and gloomy, and New Mexico sounds like just the right antidote to that!
The conference theme this year is “Unleashing Your Publishing Potential” and I’ll be talking on [...]
Traversing the Book of MPub: A New Article
by jmax on 06. Oct, 2010 in announcements
Kathleen Fraser (MPub 09) and I have written a new article for the Journal of Electronic Publishing, forthcoming late this year. It’s called “Traversing the Book of MPub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model.” It describes the process that led to The Book of MPub, our web-first, multi-platform publishing project from last spring, and elaborates on [...]
Migrating to Wordpress
by jmax on 29. May, 2010 in admin
I’ve begun the process of moving our ongoing research material from its old home at http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/wikis/ to the new Wordpress world. This process is going to take a while, basically, because it’s going to happen on an as-needed basis, as new stuff comes onstream. The first pieces to come across have to do with my [...]
