Om Malik

Conferences are most useful when they shift your thinking in some way. Those moments are rare, but I got to enjoy two of them this week at two separate conferences — Book^2 Camp, a book publishing “un-conference,” in New York on Sunday and the much larger O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference on Wednesday and Thursday. I came away with some new thoughts on discoverability and walled gardens…

Looking to practice what he preaches about digital media, Michael Wolf, v-p of research at GigaOM, a technology news and analysis blog, has launched Bstsllr.com, an e-book publishing house specializing in crime and mystery fiction. The house released an anthology, , in October and plans a new anthology of East coast crime writers in Spring 2012. GigaOM is a technology blog founded by tech writer Om Malik in 2006. Looking to compete with analytics firms like Forrester Research, GigaOM hired Wolf as media analyst in 2009. In addition to writing about digital media, Wolf also helps run the GigaOM