14/01/08

Apt’s links for December 13th through January 13th

 [We had a little delicious issue over Christmas. As a New Year present, here’s a month of links. Enjoy!]

• Radiohead quit, Robbie Williams on strike - and now 1,000 jobs cut | Media | The Guardian - The problems facing EMI. As Thom Yorke explained … “What we wanted was some control over our work and how it was used in the future by them … Mr Hands was not interested. So neither were we.”
• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Self-publishing is the new blogging - Apocalypse rewind from Zeldman
• Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary / 60 Years - What an image. Nice site too. Magnum.
• TED | TEDBlog: The mystery box: J.J. Abrams on TED.com - Great presentation about narrative from the guy behind Lost and Cloverfield
• russell davies: diaries - Russell nutshells how books (and particularly diaries) should be read in the age of RSS: serialisation in bite-sized chunks. All that remains is how to make money off em.
• G2 Guide to the Noughties so far (chez WeMadeThis) - It’s a great piece of print: the G2 on the noughties and the way we live. I’ve put my print copy in the archive. The books review sucks though - both Giles Foden and most of the authors are Faber stablemates….
• CommandShift3 - Worst ever - Gotta love this site. Am I Hot or Not - for web sites. These are the worst ever.
• Rise of cheemos and rudettes pushes networking sites to the cultural fore | Media | Guardian Unlimited
• Gallup.com - Lisa Strausfield at Pentagram designed this site. Mixed feelings about the colour coding and the navigation, but the hierarchy is impressive….
• Radiohead’s Scotch_Mist // Current TV UK - Good old radiohead. Happy New Year! Just a shame that this wasn’t performed and streamed live, when you think about it.
• Flash on the Beach 2007 « Pauls Bit - Overview (with some lovely sketches) of this summer’s FOTB conference
• Noisy Decent Graphics: A del.icio.us review of 2007 - If you’re ever short of some reading….
• From Where I Sit: Why Traditional Books Will Eventually Die -
• – tohellwithpublishing – - Nice startup with attitude
• Drop.io: Simple, Private Storage & Sharing -
• Supermarket - Great design, straight from designers. - Nice design in an etsy world
• Sequoia Capital -
• JPG Magazine: Brave New Photography -
• DesignNotes by Michael Surtees - How my iPhone evolved how I tell stories -
• Scribd To Work With Authors, Making Sure Its Free E-Books Are Legal -
• blog.rightreading.com - The plight of independent book publishing, part 1 - US-centric overview of the consolidation of independents into the corporates…
• anticorpi (on virb.com) - Lovely italian book jackets on virb
• Could small be publishing’s next big, too? - “When you buy books, how often do you feel a “buyer-seller” connection, let alone a connection to a book’s creator? And when was the last time buying a book made you feel like you were being creative?”
• Why I don’t like the Kindle - Charlie Stross - Charlie Stross on the kindle. [Via Alex - thanks]

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.