Every Client a Server,
Every Author a Publisher:
Publishing on the Internet Today

by Laura Fillmore
President, Open Book Systems (OBS)

Presented at Canada Internet World 96,
Canada's largest Internet & World-Wide Web Conference & Exhibition
in Toronto, Canada
January 11, 1996

Copyright © 1996–2024 by Laura Fillmore; written permission required to reprint.
laura@obs.com

The Client/Server Waltz:
Interactive Publishing in Three Steps

• Build It Well and They Will Come
• Monitor the Mindflock
• Adapt or Die
  

The Story of Publishing :
Eons of Access and Distribution

• From local Cave Paintings to global Wallpaper
• Publishers Control Distribution:
  The Pricey Kingdom of Paper
• Dawn Breaks: Product becomes Process
  
• Enter the Authors, Laughing
  
• Basing a Business on Universal Access
  

Recording Society

• We're All Captured Now: Recorded Words, Pictures, Video, Thoughts
• Living Out Loud
• New Ego Management System Needed: I am You and You are Me
• Linkthinking Authors Weave Context (Not Content!)
• Business Models to Make it Work: Link Licensing and Microbilling

Fountains Instead of Skyscrapers

• Building a Site That Talks to Itself
• Publishing the Audience: From Dusk Till Dawn
• Addressing Decency and Censorship
• Getting the Copyright Willies on the Wild Frontier
• Adaptive Publishing: An Open Book

You're Nobody Till Somebody Links You

• The Cool Noise of Proliferating Servers
• Populist Publishing: A Nightmare for Standards?
• We Are Who We Are By Relation: Am I My (hotlinked) Brother's Keeper?
• Mindflock Consciousness and the Self-Adapting Thought Machine