Influential Women in Publishing

I always face this moment when I’m supposed to be blogging about the great and wonderful world of publishing. There are so many out there that speak so eloquently and engagingly that I have a hard time thinking my writing stands up in comparison. There is, however, one area that no one has yet entered [...]

Information Brokers

Chris Brogan in his three hour talk at the Tools of Change 2009 Conference made several thought provoking statements. Aside from being a very funny guy Chris pointed out the obvious. It is so obvious that it escaped my attention. And if he had to remind everyone in the room of the same fact, it [...]

DocBook, Publishing Tools of the Trade

DocBook came into being in 1991 through the efforts of HaL Computer Systems and O’Reilly & Associates. They created a model, a schema, based on SGML and XML to define the structure of a document. Originally intended for technical books, DocBook has become one of the prevalent tools in the publishing industry. Why?

First, DocBook is [...]