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… and it’s closed.
That’s right: entries for Coversourcing have now closed. If we’ve missed any that were put forward before the deadline, we’ll check them out if you let us know, otherwise on with the voting!
We’ll be posting some more thoughts on a few things shortly. For now, I just want to say, how cool is this?
Published: February 11, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 7th through February 10th
Changes to the Guardian website | Inside guardian.co.uk | Guardian Unlimited - Emily Bell on the roll-out of changes to the Guardian site.
Kevin Kelly — The Technium - “The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.”
48 Hours
That’s right, entries for Coversourcing close at midnight on Sunday (midnight being an arbitrary point between the actual midnight, if we’re still awake, and first thing Monday morning). We know you designer-y types like working to a deadline, so now is your last chance.
Once the submissions are closed, there’s another two weeks of voting to […]
Published: February 8, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 4th through February 6th
Presentation Zen: Books are dead (long live books!) part 2 - “Books saved me”. If you can get past the Tony Blair meets David Brent presentation, the passion for reading and books, and sharing knowledge, is at the heart of TED.
Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon - ReadWriteWeb - The scale of companies using […]
Published: February 7, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing: Legal Update From Random House
OK - we promised last week that we’d appeal to the legal team about only allowing entries from the UK and ROI. The good news is that we’ve done that, and had a response. The bad news is what they said:
As discussed the only way to open this competition up to entrants from outside the […]
Published: February 6, 2008. Read more →
On Covers, Voting & Comments
I’ve been enjoying Coversourcing, I really have. It was quite a gamble for us, and even more for Random House, and we’re still really pleased they decided to go with it. There have been some fantastic entries, but there’s also been an increasing amount of sniping and bad sentiment in some quarters, and I’d like […]
Published: February 5, 2008. Read more →
Reaching Readers Online - follow up
So, a few technical hitches* aside, Thursday went well. The seminar was held at the London Stock Exchange, which was all very shiny and expensive and flash. (I particularly enjoyed seeing The Source sculpture first hand.)
All of the files presented are available here as PDF (with and without notes), and embedded Powerpoint.
My favourite bit was […]
Published: February 4, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for February 3rd
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: How to get rich as an author: give your work away - A follow-up from the Guardian on the piece we linked to the other day - how Paolo Cohelo has been pirating his own books to great gain.
Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book | The Onion - America’s Finest […]
Apt’s links for February 1st
What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Four - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog - not the best yet - thats eps 1 nd 2 - but still a fun piece of journalism…
2007 June « Pirate Coelho - Haaaar! Talk and dress like a pirate Paolo. Author pirates own books […]
Published: February 2, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for January 31st
Instapaper - Nice little javascript thingie that saves all those articles you’re too busy to read now. For when you’re busy later too.
The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary Art in London - Oh - look - there’s another coversourcing thing… “HarperCollins is delighted to be holding this exciting and innovative cover competition with Saatchi Online for […]
Published: February 1, 2008. Read more →