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Packing it in.
I’m packing for holiday, off for two weeks, debating my reading plans, and how ambitious they are.
So far, I’ve packed:
Personal Days by Ed Park, Jonathan Cape
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household, Penguin, very secondhand
Americana, Don DeLillo (Vintage) – have given up on this one before, despite being a big DD and advertising fan.
I kind of think [...]
Published: July 30, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 29th
THE ECO ZOO | ECODA!DOBUTSUEN – That counts as a wow. Also a why, but you know, pretty. And mad.
Meditations in an Emergency – Google Book Search – As read by Don Draper in the first episode of the new season of Mad Men. Is this placement inspired by Lost’s intertextuality – and should we [...]
Mad Men: Books as psychological (product) placement
Sunday saw the opening of the second season of Mad Men; the drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in the early 1960s.
Mad Men is brilliant for all sorts of reasons, but one thing it does very well is show the cracks emerging in a society as it shifts from life as it always [...]
Published: July 29, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 28th
Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard: So you have a grand idea; are you ready for the execution? – Right. Todo list for holiday.
StupidFilter :: Main / News – Aha! It’s that time of year again.
Reading in RSS (is different)
Like a lot of people these days, I read a lot in RSS. And I love reading in RSS.
However, I don’t think a lot of people in publishing (or in magazines, perhaps?) can possibly do the same. It’s still sadly the case that when one says “RSS” in meetings, one gets a lot of head [...]
Published: July 28, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 24th
The Associated Press: Sony opens up e-book Reader to other booksellers – OMG!!! “[Sony] Reader owners will be able to buy electronic books from stores other than Sony’s.” *Huge* news. OK, well, maybe a few months ago, but this is just kind of, um, obvious?
Welcome to Waterstones.com – “To help you get your library started, [...]
Published: July 25, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 23rd
Little Brother » Download for Free – My what a lot of formats.
Interactive “Hugel Earth” vineyard map, now in 3D – Hugel & Fils (in English): Files – Awesome.
Finding Karadzic – “I began searching for Radovan Karadzic over six years ago. The day we’ve all been waiting for came today with the news of Karadzic’s [...]
Published: July 24, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 21st
Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it | Comment is free | The Guardian – “Anyway, because it contained the words “9/11 conspiracy”, the article generated loads of traffic for the Guardian site, which in turn means loads of advertising revenue.” Genius
Publishing Frontier » Blog Archive [...]
Published: July 22, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 19th through July 20th
PragDave: If you work for Apple, we need your help… – Seems like – from the infrastructure to the bug testing, to the legals – the thinking for how the practicalities of a developer community for iPhone would work fall some way short of perfect.
Kindle PDF tips | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home – “You [...]
Published: July 21, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for July 18th
Brave New World: SeptemberFest – The ebook Races – “We are not negative towards digital content or ebooks and are fully behind them we are just very cautious about placing a bet on a horse that is obviously lame before the race has started.”
AP Exclusive: A digital Albom through Kindle – Yahoo! News – Amazon [...]
Published: July 19, 2008. Read more →