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More Links, 29 June 2007
I’ve got too many tabs open and need to get these off:
With shades of Tom Cruise in Magnolia, Respect the Pixel Grid (Geeky)
O’Reilly Tools of Change presentations et al (via BookTwo.org)
Doubleclick Report about the drivers in ecommerce
Lots of Add To Basket buttons
This is very, very, very important. DRM for books (Medialoper, “Will Publishers Learn […]
Published: June 29, 2007. Read more →
Links, 29 June 2007
Prince is giving away his new album, for free, with the Mail on Sunday. How awesome is that? Interesting not only from a Chris Anderson style perspective (that the future is free content, and paid-for experiences, i.e. gigs; see “Give away the music and sell the show“) but also because it is a totally new […]
The World is Horseradish
I’ve admired the new TED site before.
But I’ve just watched Malcolm Gladwell’s talk on spaghetti sauce, filmed in September 04 and uploaded last year to the site; it’s part of his Blink-era obsession with market research and decision making. (Keen viewers will have seen Blink on my holiday reading list). It’s a fantastic talk and […]
Published: June 28, 2007. Read more →
Today we like.
BigShinyThing has got het up about Facebook. Which seems to be a fair position to take. But in the same article, which is one of those oh-so-paranoid-oh-so-activist pieces they do so well, they mention the Google Will Eat Itself project (fantastic idea!):
We generate money by serving Google text advertisements on a network of hidden […]
Published: June 23, 2007. Read more →
Links, 21 June 2007
Sicko as a litmus test for the positive or negative effects of file-sharing on commercial releases..
More on the power of BitTorrent: OJ’s “confession” leaked to BT It is quite intriguing that “sensitive” or banned material can be leaked in this way. Thing is, it must be relatively obvious who did it?
And again on piracy/ […]
Published: June 21, 2007. Read more →
Vic Keegan on the Future of Book Sites
I’m sure you’ve all seen this, but well worth a read. It’s about new social media sites around books and reading, and Vic’s article is an overview of the “new start-ups fighting for attention in this fledgling space in an attempt to become the dominant provider”
Where is all this leading? As these book sites get […]
A few Quick Things
OK, so my RSS feed got so clogged up while I was away, it crashed, dumped all my unread articles and started from scratch again. Even taking away the 75+ articles the Guardian’s new RSS engine seems to spit out, that’s a lot of reading. I’ll add notables as they come up.
BookSquare tells publishers that […]
Published: June 20, 2007. Read more →
Holiday Reading
I read lots of books on holiday. Almost none related to work. All rather mainstream.
Jonas Odell / Motionographer
Wow. I just found this video, which is the new one by Jonas Odell, for The Hours.
Odell is represented by the pretty much universally brilliant Nexus Productions, home to some of the best young animators in the world. And whilst I don’t like the song, it’s a great piece of work, almost breathtaking. It […]
Published: June 19, 2007. Read more →