FutureBook Hack's invocation: The Rev. Matthew Cashmore

 Blackwell’s digital director Matthew Cashmore is going to make some Anglican parish a very fine priest. “I get criticised,” he told the #FutureBookHack’s gathered assembly Saturday morning, “every time I introduce a hack day and tell people, ‘You can change the world with what you do this weekend.” Seated at tables and on beanbags, standing… Read More

Gearing up for #FutureBookHack

For all the experience Blackwell’s Matthew Cashmore brings to his production of The Bookseller’s FutureBook Hack on Saturday and Sunday, neither he nor anyone else knows exactly what creative benefits to expect from the weekend. Surprise is a key element of these events. Organizers try not to restrict expectations because, as Rick Joyce of Perseus Books Group puts… Read More