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Murdoch 2.0
A couple of Guardian articles on the still-developing Rupert Murdoch / Interweb thing.
First off, “Internet means end for media barons, says Murdoch”
Rupert Murdoch last night sounded the death knell for the era of the media baron, comparing today’s internet pioneers with explorers such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot and hailing the arrival of a […]
Published: March 18, 2006. Read more →
Libraries vs. Google
From Medialoper, ‘Librarians versus the search giants.’
You want a hot discussion? Put librarians, Microsoft, Google, and Bob Stein from the Institute for the Future of the Book on a SXSW panel to talk about issues surrounding book digitization (and call the panel “Revenge of the Librarians”). An hour wasn’t nearly long enough for the conversation […]
Font chat
The 25 best free fonts including some real beauties. Be interesting to see these used in some web applications?
I’d not seen fontFeed before - and I wish it had RSS - but here’s a couple of great pieces. The first is the zeitgeisty commentary on the typography of web 2.0 logos, grouping the kind of […]
Flexible Paper
Core 77 highlights the flexible displays of the future.
The Tyrrany of Good Design
Adrian Shaughnessy, whose How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul was a great, quick read along the lines of Running a Successful Design Practise also writes for the great Design Observer.
What’s great about Shaughnessy is that he is quite iconoclastic and enjoys rubbing things and people (and convention) up the wrong way. […]
Google to sell book content
The inevitable? The Bookseller reports [login required] on Google’s plans to sell access to book content.
The new initiative is to be launched first in the US and the UK. Details are not yet finalised but Google said the revenue of any online sales would be shared between Google and the publisher, with the publisher receiving […]
Published: March 10, 2006. Read more →
Times Emit March 06
Silence of late has been due to London Book Fair and lots of travel as well as work; what follows is a list of link to all the stuff that distracted me inthe last week.
LBF:
Vicky Barnsley tells Alan Giles to sort out their website; and that Amazon is a bigger threat than Google;
Google books backlist […]