Category: Publishing technologies

by M. Bijman March 24, 2019

I composed a bit like Bach! – Machine Learning and the joys of aspiring to great art

Computer-generated artistic text and images tend to resemble FrankenArt and FrankenFiction. Using machine learning, designers can build software programs thatContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 18, 2018

Backstories Current events List of similar books Modern fiction Published books Publishing technologies

Dismissive of mass market paperbacks? Think again.

This is the rack of “mass market” paperbacks that I see when I stand in the queue, every time IContinue Reading

by M. Bijman October 4, 2018

Current events Publishing technologies

Indie author causes uproar in the French publishing industry – shrugs it off as a matter of survival

I rarely repost news articles in their entirety but this one is a real eyebrow-raiser: – an independent author’s novel,Continue Reading

by M. Bijman September 7, 2018

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The Creative Process & Publishing I – How to get published

There are thousands of aspiring authors, thousands of unpublished books, and millions of readers who have not connected with particularContinue Reading

by M. Bijman February 25, 2018

Authors to watch Backstories Discussion of poetry Discussion of writing style Poetry Publishing technologies Review of poetry collection Web series and vlogs

Manipulating words like Legos – You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston

Brian Bilston’s first anthology of poetry contains more than 200 poems, and despite some of them being only four linesContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 26, 2018

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Will it…Print? – Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality

I have been watching Rhett and Link, a.k.a Rhett McLaughlin and Link (Charles) Neal, on their YouTube channel, Good MythicalContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 22, 2018

Art Current events Publishing technologies

What does it take to create something new every day?

One of my favourite marketing professionals, Seth Godin, wrote his 7,000th post on Nov. 14, 2017. That’s quite something. TheContinue Reading

by M. Bijman August 4, 2017

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Splashes in a suikinkutsu – Experiential content on the Internet

See me, hear me and walk with me – that’s what many websites try to achieve; in other words, connectContinue Reading

Observations on AME Roundup 2019 – Tech solutions looking for problems February 15, 2019
AME Roundup 2019 in Vancouver, BC, finished on 31 January 2019, and here is my final post about some of the events. (Previous post: 4. Innovation Hub, Additions to the Geoscience Toolbox, Jan 30, 2019) 5. Innovation Hub, The latest technologies, Jan 31, 2019 Seven tech companies presented their solutions to improving the appearance and accessibility […]

Babylon Berlin (2018) April 24, 2019
“Zu asche, zu staub. Zu asche. Doch noch nicht jetzt.” “Let’s not be shy to say it,” says Christian Buss, Der Spiegel’s cultural critic, about TV show Babylon Berlin. “[Germans] are big again — as the world champions of angst.”If the spending behind Babylon Berlin is any indication, German angst is indeed big again. Created by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), Henk […]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) April 15, 2019
“Look, I'm a comic book, I'm a cereal, did a Christmas album. I have an excellent theme song.” — Peter Parker When Kristine Belson, president of Sony Pictures Animation, confirmed the title for Spider-Man: Homecoming at CinemaCon in 2016, she briefly talked about the as-yet-unnamed animated Spider-Man film. She declared that it would “break new gro […]