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Alan Fletcher
RIP Fletch.
Published: September 27, 2006. Read more →
Bonfire of the brands
My friend is editing The Bonfire of the Brands,. One man’s account of his conversion from fashion junkie to burning all of his posessions on a bonfire, the blog is the preamble to the book which will follow next year. Anyway, the bonfire itself was last Sunday in London (we missed it, sadly) and the […]
Published: September 18, 2006. Read more →
Ofcom Communications Market
Teennage Turn Off: Ofcom’s state of the communications sector makes for compelling reading when considering how on earth to target the ‘youth’ demographic.
The report, published yesterday, pulls together existing studies and new research to supply a snapshot of a market in which consumers spent more than £50bn last year - 4.1pc of gross domestic product. […]
Published: September 6, 2006. Read more →
August Emissions
Sharpworld, an often incredible set of video entries. This gained my attention from Coudal, but for including Oscar Fischinger, Len Lye and many other early animation work links on YouTube.
Saw RadioHead live at Meadowbank, Edinburgh. Amazing, although the visuals were a bit duff. I have to say that Johnny Greenwood is god, and whoever the […]
New Models #1
Penguin’s Viking imprint have announced a web-only, limited edition, 10-installment ‘victorian’ style publication, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.
Ignore, for one minute, ladies and gentlemen, that (as a commenter on the viking blog says) the book has been published in the US already. Think instead of the fact that this could be an […]
Published: September 4, 2006. Read more →
Long Tail Stats
Below are some stats for the first month of the Long Tail promo being online. Make of them what you will - but we’re delighted that we’ve managed to direct a lot of the interest in the concept of the long tail towards the RHUK edition of the book.
The central tenet of our strategy […]
Published: September 2, 2006. Read more →
Getting Dewey eyed about books
Design Observer has a nice post about cataloguing books (at least in the pre-Librarything era). Arguing about Melville Dewey (father of the bibliographic taxonomy most publishers I hope hate) versus Georges Perec may seem a little, um specialised:
Perec lists several possible ordering schemes in his essay, and in practice I have used a number of […]