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Regressive scribbles, via fingertip on tablet screen, within minutes of discovering this new medium on Gmail

This site looks at hypotheses about, plans for, and experiences in publishing and journalism after print.

It originated in a 2010 paper for the Oxford Internet Institute: The Keiretsu-Cooperative: a Model for post-Gutenberg Publishing, downloadable here, free of charge.

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post-Gutenberg: what comes next?

Much ado, not by accident: Elena Ferrante has spoken frankly about exploiting the gossip mill to drive book sales — to The Financial Times 06/10/2016
Time-travelling email to Tolstoy re: reminders, in the transition to post-print publishing, of you emancipating your serfs in 19th-century Russia 25/09/2016
Fiddling with the true record of newspapers’ post-print struggles robs our first drafts of history of crucial lessons for media 16/09/2016
Can literary, bacon-scented flies teetering on the brink of greatness — by 2016 standards — compete with a passage in, say, Orwell’s Burmese Days? 03/09/2016
Adapt-or-die advice for newspapers being squeezed out by Facebook: create symphysis with your reader-commenters! 29/07/2016
Jottings from revisiting A Distant Mirror, which shows history repeating itself in inchoate populist rage fed by miraculous new channels for communicating 20/07/2016
Nuda Veritas: politicians in the UK and US, including the lying Brexit architects, fail to understand — or harness — internet culture’s radical transparency and reach 12/07/2016
Why has The New York Times abandoned its commitment to journalism ‘without fear or favour,’ covering this presidential election? 03/06/2016
How does a partisan press mislead the public and distort an election? Watch this conversation between Cenk Uygur and Bernie Sanders on The Young Turks 06/04/2016
for 27. 3. 2016 27/03/2016
for 20. 3. 2016 20/03/2016
Private Eye’s almost unbearably brilliant Libor for Dummies business model for the future of book publishing 09/03/2016
Milan says a tender goodbye to Umberto Eco in high style: let’s hope that someone put his confession about The Da Vinci Code into a eulogy 03/03/2016
Farewell, phenomenal Umberto Eco 21/02/2016
Surely they aren’t trying to reinvent the mandala? A pictorial entertainment on computerised visions by cosmologists of gravitational waves 14/02/2016
Lawyers leading the way in the litigation revolution in Britain 07/02/2016
… and where is America, in the litigation revolution? A new post-Gutenberg.com clippings file on democratising law 29/01/2016
On the brink of the post-Gutenberg democratisation of law and the courts — fresh proof that justice without lawyers really is on the horizon 14/01/2016
Will judge Leveson become one of history’s heroes not for debugging and democratising the British press but his own profession — law and the courts? 06/01/2016
Revolutions are unpredictable and their most significant changes take time. The signage reads: POOR VISIBILITY AHEAD 31/12/2015
for 25. 12. 2015 25/12/2015
Dispatch from a time-starved blogger: the bulge is p-G … and p-G is the bulge 07/12/2015
The what??? of the year 2015 (hint: Steve Jobs has something to do with it) 15/10/2015
Jonathan Franzen and the novel writing tradition that still has made-in-America stamped all over it 07/10/2015
Cooperatives: now, a famously right-wing ex-editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator emerges as an advocate of true sharing in the ownership of companies … 30/09/2015
Science, religion, and a curious note from history: the sad, small Maharaja of Chhatarpur meets a founder of the cooperative movement and is impressed 23/09/2015
Three mini-master classes from traditional media to show the blogosphere how this journalism thingy is done 16/09/2015
Henry Higgins, digitised, and a housekeeping alert 07/09/2015
Literary sanitisation: Go Set A Watchman on the original Rapunzel! She got pregnant — and oh, the first Snow White’s would-be assassin was her own mother 30/08/2015
Google should spotlight and respond to critics of Sundar Pichai and other Silicon Valley chiefs — not bury the complaints 23/08/2015
Sundar Pichai, Silicon Valley’s new technology star: wondrously un-grok-able by Westerners looking at him in rear-view mirrors angled on roots 16/08/2015
A New York Times reporter uses the dreaded ‘c’ (for cooperative)-word and finds his enthusiasm premature, just like post-Gutenberg’s … in 2010-11 07/08/2015
Late July break: ‘electric messages’ flying between two variations on summer 28/07/2015
The media ownership structure that dare not speak its name? Or is it the writing on the wall that new media, too, are deciphering too slowly? 21/07/2015
Radically open — post-print — justice, streamed live from Britain’s Supreme Court, salutes art’s power to keep an artist alive and prevail over horror 12/07/2015
Stick to your linear algebra, Charles Dodgson — and calling yourself Lewis Carroll won’t make any difference, you’ll never succeed as a writer! 03/07/2015
As great scientists frankly admit what they owe artists, should the income gap between gifted arts and science workers be quite so wide? 23/06/2015
Scientists using famous paintings to open doors to their minds, inviting us in: part 2 16/06/2015
What’s more enlightening than a good biopic? Scientists using famous paintings to open doors to their minds, inviting us in: part 1 09/06/2015
At last, a professor emerita — buried in a print letters column — has the right answer for evolutionary biologists justifying infidelity as an exclusively male biological necessity 02/06/2015
Brink-of-summer break 23/05/2015
Must journalists and writers wait for salvation in heaven, or Godot? Facebook cares more about helping publishing businesses than creators 16/05/2015
Sorry, Schumpeter, part 2 … John Gardner could have explained why writers cannot be turned into ‘authorpreneurs’ 07/05/2015
Switzerland at No:1 in the World Happiness Report = extreme (or direct) democracy = tools for hands-on political egalitarianism 29/04/2015
Sorry, Schumpeter, Ivan Doig could not have been a great literary mage and an ‘authorpreneur’ 20/04/2015
Can the rap king Jay Z make cooperatives cool — for the tipping point creators need to restore livelihoods hollowed out by the net? 12/04/2015
for … 5. 4. 2015 04/04/2015
Will Charlie Hebdo lead the way to media’s still misty, co-owned future? 27/03/2015
Daffy spring doggerel break: from a treasured comments archive on the net, and a beloved doggerelist 14/03/2015
Inventory-taking time for post-Gutenberg.com 09/03/2015

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