We have been out and about as of late, taking in conferences, trade shows and industry events hand over fist. Check out how these seminars and shindigs stack up by clicking on the links below:

I joined Tim at the Association of Educational Publishers summit in Washington D.C., and l rapidly began to long for more detailed technical descriptions to underscore the dreamy futurism of the session speakers. The summit was, after all, a meeting of mostly non-technical publishers discussing the breakdown of the traditional publishing model, and pontificating about the what the industry is to do. Our friends at Shakespeare Squared made the outing quite enjoyable, but for a coder, the speakers lacked details. “Of course the iTunes model will apply to digital textbooks, of course the data will be stored in XML,” I thought,  “Let’s see some specs!”