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Apt’s links for December 22nd through December 23rd
Crossover Dreams: Turning Free Web Work Into Real Book Sales – New York Times – More anecdotal stuff about free.
Picture This – A Friendly Place to Improve Your Photography – Mmmm. New C4 site built on flickr promoting photography. One for James….
Ideas (Sequoia) – Nicely designed site for VC firm Sequoia. Via 37 Signals
Published: December 24, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 21st
Democratic Debate: Analyzing the Details – The New York Times – Zowie. NY Times does some pretty amazing things with video, text, and speech analysis. [Via IFBook]
David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music – “Are things as bad for new authors trying to land a book deal as they are in [...]
Published: December 22, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 19th
Amazon’s Kindle Won’t Ignite The E-Book Market by James L. McQuivey – Forrester Research – Nutshell: “the Kindle solves problems that publishers and retailers have, not problems that readers have.”
MySpace.com – Vile, but interesting competition for The Game follow-up. So far all of the entries I’ve watched have been spam. For HarperCollins USA.
Cory Doctorow: How [...]
Published: December 20, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 17th
Louise Hopkins- doggerfisher – Contemporary Art Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland – I like this. Quite a lot.
advertising practitioner: rory, usefulness, better – “I think of all those endless microsites as the MarketingWeb; a large collection of gorgeous, entertaining, imaginative visually dynamic websites, only ever seen in boardrooms and awards ceremonies.”
Published: December 18, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 11th
Core77.com :: View topic – 1HDC v1.2 – eBook – Submissions – Submissions to redesign a kindle-like device
1 Hour Design Challenge: 11 hours left to redesign the eBook! – So, it actually made it onto other people’s radars?
Bombing trains in LEGO land – Fun.
The First Rule: Do Not Pitch Boing Boing | Previous Stories | [...]
Published: December 12, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 9th
Doris Lessing – Nobel Lecture – The Nobel Lecture in Literature was delivered on Friday 7 December at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm by Nicholas Pearson, Doris Lessing’s publisher in the UK.
23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies – So – some really quite useful stuff here then.
Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons – “while yesterday’s authors … could [...]
Published: December 10, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for December 6th
Lookybook | View Book – I like this a bit. Lookybook – children’s books on the hoof. But I am so bored of setting up new usernames and passwords….
swissmiss: The Designer’s Toolkit: 500 Grids and Style Sheets: 500 Grids and Style Sheets – At least we know what to get James for Christmas then. Or [...]
Published: December 7, 2007. Read more →
New project live: The Wisdom of Whores
If things have been quiet around here – in terms of blog posts at least – it’s because we’ve been running fast at a number of projects over the last few months. No excuse for paltry blogging, but we’re coming to the point where some of these projects are now going live.
The first out is [...]
Published: December 6, 2007. Read more →
Apt’s links for November 25th through December 3rd
Fray Issue 1: Busted! – Hobo Balls by Eric Spitznagel – Rather nice redesign of Fray.
E-Book Readers At A Glance | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Wired compares the options. Without asking why.
Published: December 4, 2007. Read more →