A lightning tour of developments in journalism, library and information science, editorial design, new-school publishing, reading products and studies, and more, as they tie into our work as content strategists.

1. Ideas Worth Stealing
Erin Kissane
@kissane
Thursday, June 21, 2012

2. Innovation
Thursday, June 21, 2012

3. Innovation
for its own sake
Thursday, June 21, 2012

4. “Innovate as a last resort.”
— Charles Eames
Thursday, June 21, 2012

5. New problems
Thursday, June 21, 2012

6. Dissolution
Thursday, June 21, 2012

7. Journalism
Thursday, June 21, 2012

8. Publishing
Thursday, June 21, 2012

9. Digital Humanities
Thursday, June 21, 2012

10. The Social Sciences
Thursday, June 21, 2012

11. The Creepy Sciences
Thursday, June 21, 2012

12. NEW READING
Thursday, June 21, 2012

13. Social Reading
Thursday, June 21, 2012

14. Active Reading
Thursday, June 21, 2012

15. Kindle highlighting
Thursday, June 21, 2012

16. Readmill
Thursday, June 21, 2012

17. Readmill
Thursday, June 21, 2012

18. Readmill
Thursday, June 21, 2012

19. Findings
Thursday, June 21, 2012

20. Findings
Thursday, June 21, 2012

21. Time-Shifting Surfaces
Thursday, June 21, 2012

22. Pocket
Thursday, June 21, 2012

23. Pocket
Thursday, June 21, 2012

24. 4.5 million users
Thursday, June 21, 2012

25. Instapaper
Thursday, June 21, 2012

26. Instapaper
Thursday, June 21, 2012

27. Readability
Thursday, June 21, 2012

28. Readability
Thursday, June 21, 2012

29. Fragmentation
Thursday, June 21, 2012

30. Mobile web on target to
surpass desktop by 2014
Thursday, June 21, 2012

31. Mobile web on target to
surpass desktop by 2014
Thursday, June 21, 2012

32. e-readers
Thursday, June 21, 2012

33. e-books surpassed print
book sales in April 2011
Thursday, June 21, 2012

34. Why does it matter?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

35. Boundaries are
dissolving
Thursday, June 21, 2012

36. The conversation is
moving
Thursday, June 21, 2012

37. Where readers go,
we gotta follow
Thursday, June 21, 2012

38. NEW WRITING
Thursday, June 21, 2012

39. Thursday, June 21, 2012

40. The end of the document
Thursday, June 21, 2012

41. The end of the page
Thursday, June 21, 2012

42. “packages of ideas”
Thursday, June 21, 2012

43. Findings
Thursday, June 21, 2012

44. Story clusters &
content nodes
Thursday, June 21, 2012

45. Modular writing
Thursday, June 21, 2012

46. This is not your mother’s
Microsoft Word
Thursday, June 21, 2012

47. We need new tools
Thursday, June 21, 2012

48. The rebirth of hypertext
Thursday, June 21, 2012

49. Infinity Blade review
Thursday, June 21, 2012

50. Worrydream’s
Hyper-er Text
Thursday, June 21, 2012

51. “Get your content ready to go anywhere,
because it’s going to go everywhere.”
—Brad Frost
Thursday, June 21, 2012

52. Get your content ready to do anything,
because it’s going to do everything.
Thursday, June 21, 2012

53. NEW INFORMATION
Thursday, June 21, 2012

54. Big data
Thursday, June 21, 2012

55. Volume
Thursday, June 21, 2012

56. Velocity
Thursday, June 21, 2012

57. Variety
Thursday, June 21, 2012

58. Big data is more than simply a matter of
size; it is an opportunity to find insights
in new and emerging types of data and
content, to make your business more
agile, and to answer questions that were
previously considered beyond your
reach.
— IBM
Thursday, June 21, 2012

59. Overview
Thursday, June 21, 2012

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63. It’s coming for us
Thursday, June 21, 2012

64. It needs our sensibilities
Thursday, June 21, 2012

65. New analytics
Thursday, June 21, 2012

66. Web & search
Thursday, June 21, 2012

67. People & brains
Thursday, June 21, 2012

68. USEFUL QUESTIONS
Thursday, June 21, 2012

69. New editorial?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

70. Traditional craft
meets the New Weird
Thursday, June 21, 2012

71. New editorial design?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

72. New ethics?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

73. Code?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

74. CODE?
Thursday, June 21, 2012

75. Thursday, June 21, 2012

76. “We learn new things because our
perception of the world is shaped by our
mental catalogues of what is possible
and what it useful.”
- esmoov on GitHub
Thursday, June 21, 2012

77. CODE.
Thursday, June 21, 2012

78. WHY IT MATTERS
Thursday, June 21, 2012

79. FEAR
Thursday, June 21, 2012

80. Thursday, June 21, 2012

81. AWESOMENESS
Thursday, June 21, 2012

82. Dissolution is exciting.
Thursday, June 21, 2012

83. Go make wonderful
things.
Thursday, June 21, 2012

84. THANK YOU!
Thursday, June 21, 2012

85. Thanks for the cute raccoons!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zemoufette/4599528693/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gasheadsteve/126509658/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosyfinch/7094007571/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniorvelo/1191097026/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylar/4925560079/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylar/4926154772/
Thursday, June 21, 2012