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Live Blogging the Pub 802 Launch: Hosted by Sean Cranbury

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Thanks to our Master of Ceremonies, Sean Connery… I mean, Cranbury.

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MPub 2010 Waves Goodbye…

It’s been two long months of blood (but no bloodshed), sweat, and tears, and the MPub class of 2010 has finally made it to April 16: Tech Project presentation day! The three tech project groups – Pangolin, Netcase, and Pressplay – have worked days and nights to deliver top-notch projects. (more…)

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MPub Makes a Real Book (pt. 2)

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Ricepaper Call for Submissions Issue 15.3: Flavours of Food


On the topic of food, people debate, wax rhapsodic, and look like fools as they incorporate both sound effects (“I was like *drool*”) and hand gestures (mime shoveling food into your mouth). At least in my case, they do. But with the 15.3 Flavours of Food issue, Ricepaper magazine looks to be able to dig deeper into how (in the words of Ricepaper’s esteemed editor, Eury Chang) eating food “sustains our bodies while enriching our sense of shared humanity and connection to the earth,” and investigate the power of the aromas and tastes of food to “bring back childhood memories and reinforce our sense of home and belonging.” (more…)

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Publishing Technology Projects and 2010 Grand Finale

The Master of Publishing student cohort of 2010 enthusiastically invites you to the grand finale presentations of our Publishing Technology Projects for this year.

Each spring, the MPub cohort undertakes three applied R&D projects that explore innovation and novel solutions in digital technology for publishers. This year’s projects include:

  • the consolidation and re-positioning of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, the Thinkubator, and the MPub online workspaces in a new WordPress-based platform.
  • the launch of nEWS, a prototype online Editorial Workflow System tailored to the needs of small cultural magazines and packaged as free, easily deployable extension to a magazine’s website.
  • the launch of the Book of MPub, a multi-platform publication (web, print, & ebook)  demonstrating an agile, web-first, multi-platform publishing workflow. Written, conceived, designed, and developed entirely by the MPub community.

The projects will be presented in room 1800 at SFU Vancouver (515 W.Hastings St) beginning at 1:00PM on Friday, April 16th. We also invite you to join us afterward (about 4:30) on the third floor for our end-of-term celebration and wrap party.

Hope to see you there.

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