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Apt’s links for August 27th through August 28th
Trampoline tumblers perform single-take “analog” video editing routine - Really lovely.
animals on the underground map - Just because.
Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): VP Book Club: A gorgeous mistake - “…Penguin just launched a new website, www.vpbookclub.com. It is without doubt the most beautiful book website I have ever seen. And it is a complete failure.” LibraryThing […]
Published: August 29, 2007. Read more →
The 100,000 hits of Gil Scott Heron
Talking of Canongate. When I worked there (from 1997-2001), I came up with a crazy idea to reconcile my love for pop videos / the web with my frustration at publishing books that couldn’t reach a wider audience.
The idea was simple - give my film-maker /animator mates a copy of a Canongate book, a […]
Published: August 26, 2007. Read more →
Pelicans and sinking feelings.
Just a brief one.
I was at a party on Saturday night, and ran into an old friend-of-a-friend, who is a freelance (books) journalist. He writes on publishing (and also reviews) for The Times, The Guardian, Time Out and a number of other well-respected publications. I reminded him what I do - the brief version, which […]
Apt’s links for August 25th
A List Apart: Articles: Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo - Undo! Undo! Sorry, I’m being very geeky today, but this is a warning for designers of interfaces…
A List Apart: Articles: Reading Design - Read the content before you design it…
Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability - One for insomniacs: geeky talk on […]
Apt’s links for August 22nd through August 24th
Pink Air: Matrix branding - As good a reason as any to live an unpredictable life. [Via RussellDavies]
welcome to optimism: 2007 so far at Wieden + Kennedy London - I know it’s adland, but I do like the way W+K do half-yearly statements on their targets and success at meeting them. This is their assessment […]
Published: August 25, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 21st
How do you beat YouTube? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - “At the moment, many of the new names are backed by major television networks, which use traditional TV lawyers to write their terms of service. Often they don’t consider the rights or concerns of the people who actually make the video.”
We’re all doomed to […]
Published: August 22, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for August 16th through August 17th
Penguin and Puffin Online Catalogues - Wishlist. A new companion to Penguin by Design; and Penguin by Designers: 700 Penguins.
Penguin Lust - Premiére de couverture - Jesus. There are other people like us in the world.
booktwo.org Notebook » Authors, literature and the screen - Brilliant. Authors either write longhand, or on computer. Or do they?
Run […]
Published: August 18, 2007. Read more →
Green Spin
It’s not often that I commend the publishing industry on a brilliant piece of tactical maneuvering. But I have to say that the recent spinning adopted [subscription required, sorry] (by John Makinson among others) to justify abolishing sale or return terms on environmental grounds is absolute genius:
Penguin c.e.o. John Makinson has mooted a move to […]
Published: August 17, 2007. Read more →
When HMV Shuts Up Shop - Then What?
One of my ongoing, late-night publishing speculations - up there in likelihood with Penguin being sold off to HarperCollins, or Canongate sold to Bloomsbury - is the idea that “beleaguered high street retailer HMV” will pull the plug on the Waterstones chain of bookshops because there’s just no money in books anymore.
Of course, they won’t […]
Apt’s links for August 14th through August 15th
Jakob Nielsen interviewed by Jack Schofield - “users visiting a new site spend an average of 30 seconds on the homepage and less than two minutes on the entire site before deciding to abandon it. They spend a bit more time if they decide to stay on a site, but still only four minutes on […]
Published: August 16, 2007. Read more →