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Apt Reading

We use Instapaper to remember to read good stuff on the web. We thought you might find some of it interesting too, so here’s what we’ve been reading lately:

Starred picks:

My Thoughts on Codecademy - O'Reilly School of Technology

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/12/my-thoughts-on-codecademy.html

What Customers Want from Your Products - HBS Working Knowledge

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5170.html

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/07/convertible-note-seed-financings/

The Tim Ferriss Effect: Lessons From My Successful Book Launch - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2012/01/11/the-tim-ferriss-effect/print/

The inadmissible assumptions - Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/the-inadmissible-assumptions.html

Reid Hoffman: The network philosopher (Wired UK)

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/04/features/reid-hoffman-network-philosopher?page=all

Killing Orson Welles at Midnight by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/28/killing-orson-welles-midnight/?pagination=false

Google's Collateral Damage: SEO Cat & Mouse Game

http://www.seobook.com/learn-seo/collateral-damage.php

Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” and vegetarianism review : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/09/091109crbo_books_kolbert?printable=true

Is Publishing Doomed? JOHN B. THOMPSON with Williams Cole - The Brooklyn Rail

of world is exploding. And there’s lots of experiments and innovation and so on, you know, like the Open Road Integrated Media and companies where people are experimenting with new models and new id. […]

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/11/express/is-publishing-doomed-john-b-thompson-with-williams-cole

To read:

IAPP : Big Data=Big Oil?

https://www.privacyassociation.org/publications/2013_03_20_big_data_big_oil

Frank Chimero × Blog × Text Playlists

http://frankchimero.com/blog/2010/05/text-playlists/

Paul Ford's Interaction: Elegy for the Text Box - Print Magazine

http://www.printmag.com/featured/paul-fords-interaction-elegy-for-the-text-box/

Meet the Web's Operating System: HTTP | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/http/all/1

The Lease They Can Do: What the Fight Over 'Used' Music Reveals About Online Media - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-03/beyond-pandora-who-really-owns-your-digital-music#p1

A manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century | Education | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/manifesto-teaching-ict-education-minister

The Ten Principles of Inclusive Web Design » Sandi's digital abode

http://www.sandiwassmer.co.uk/resources/the-ten-principles-of-inclusive-web-design/

Design Principles

http://principles.adactio.com/

VQR » On the business of literature

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2013/spring/nash-business-literature/

No to NoUI – Timo Arnall

http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui

Archive:

My Thoughts on Codecademy - O'Reilly School of Technology

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/12/my-thoughts-on-codecademy.html

Ebook publishing platforms are a joke | FutureBook

http://futurebook.net/content/ebook-publishing-platforms-are-joke

isolani - Web Standards: Web App Mistakes: Condemned to repeat

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/standards/WebAppMistakesWeAreCondemnedToRepeat

Six Steps to Put Christensen's Jobs-to-be-Done Theory into Practice - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenwunker/2012/02/07/six-steps-to-put-christensens-jobs-to-be-done-theory-into-practice/2/

The Importance of Marketing Analytics

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-importance-of-marketing-analytics

Bobby Womack: 'I can sing my ass off, better than I could before' | Music | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/24/bobby-womack-sing-better-before

Is Your Brand Great At Digital Marketing? A Diagnostic Framework.

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/brand-digital-marketing-diagnostic-framework/

MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER. - Master of 500 Hats

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/07/moneyball-for-startups.html

sharing-knowledge-from-product-manager-to-engineers

http://teresatorres.com/producttalk/2012/03/sharing-knowledge-from-product-manager-to-engineers/

User Stories Are Better Than PRDs | Product Talk

http://teresatorres.com/producttalk/2012/04/user-stories-are-better-than-prds/