Independent Publishing - Articles Archive
from October 29, 2006 to September 27, 2006

Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media ... read more

The future of art and the entire artists' universe is likely to be reshaped by the internet and the new media. Whenever a commentator makes grandiose statements about history, the reader can legitimately anticipate that they will lead in to some audacious announcement about the future, couched ... read more

Looking to find the latest new media tools, web services and the just-released new application software for independent publishing, for distributing content online or for communicating more effectively without needing to have a big budget? Here is our weekly collection of the best new media tools ... read more

Online video marketing is the key business differentiator for web companies wanting to communicate effectively their product profile and benefits within the shortest possible time. There is nothing else that comes close to the effectiveness and persuasion power of a well designed video message. This doesn't mean ... read more

The Internet has raised new possibilities for art, music, literature, and film simply by streamlining familiar activities. Digitization and downloading make it faster, easier, and less expensive to store, distribute, extract samples from, and issue comments on the arts - activities that have already gone on ... read more

Web 2.0 has unleashed an era of online participation, personalization and interoperability set to change the way we network, do business and interact with the media that engulf us. One of the most exciting developments in recent times is that of the mashup. The term mashup can ... read more

To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent ... read more

Sharewood Picnic is the weekly collection of the most interesting new media tools and resources selected and reviewed by Robin Good and Livia Iacolare. Here our favorite new tools and services for this week: Web-based editor that allows you to create text documents and spreadsheets Make calls ... read more

Peer-to-peer networks are transforming the independent art distribution paradigm as well as the traditional creative landscape dominated so far by large commercial corporations. The floodgates have opened. Hard copy media – CDs, DVDs, magazines and newspapers – are going the way of the dinosaurs. Just ask Tower ... read more

Web 2.0 is reshaping the media and business landscape to an extent unimaginable even a year ago. At the very center of this shift in how media is produced and consumed and in how businesses function, is the increased importance of community, collaboration and participatory, networked ... read more

"There's a new kid on the block of independent film-making, and it's offering everyone who wants to try the chance to make their own Matrix: a thing called 'Machinima'. Machinima's a new form of film-making that uses computer games technology to shoot films in the virtual reality ... read more

Web-based collaboration tool integrates VoIP, web conferencing and digital media support Online space to buy, sell and promote people's original creative works Mobile community that connects you to your friends and information, anytime and anywhere Sell items on your own webpage without needing visitors to leave your site Convert your ... read more

Participatory media has exploded in recent times, and moves from strength to strength almost daily, with new services arriving and evolving that make communicating easier than ever. But who owns the work you share? We are living through a huge shift away from top-down, one-way mass ... read more

Web 2.0 Meets Smartmobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 and How Traditional Mass Media Can Adapt To The Sweeping Changes Generated by New Social Media - Exclusive Interview Howard Rheingold has been very kind in sparing some little time to share his personal views on the ... read more

The advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user-generated content and the increased use of delivery technologies like PDF and Flash have created a whole new category of usability and accessibility issues that challenge and clash with the design and accessibility design approaches web site designers had been ... read more

VoIP service allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week plus the cost of a local call Edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments Web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues Service ... read more

Network Collaboration is redefining the way we communicate, publish, do business and build collective knowledge, and it has been made possible with the advent of free or affordable peer to peer technologies. Peer to peer, as a term, has often been associated with online file sharing networks, ... read more

Online Video Advertising And Promotion: Share Your Video Online Is The Only Way To Go Online video publishing has indeed taken the Internet by storm this year, making the use of video for marketing, promotion, news and PR online a true key strategic component of any new ... read more

Contextual Content Distribution Gets Publishers' Content In The Right Context: Micro-Context Publishing is Here. by John Blossom While many publishers focus on search engines to get their content in the most valuable context possible that's not where issues of context begin and end for online content. A new ... read more