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25th Estate Awards and Screenings
Update: This is Where We Live will be shown in competition at Prix Ars Electronica 2009 September 3 – 8, 2009, Linz, Austria. More than 500 films, VFX, advertising spots, etc. were submitted to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica for prize consideration by the juries. This 2009 Prix Ars Electronica Animation Festival will showcase a [...]
Published: June 23, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for June 17th through June 21st
BookExpoCast » Blog Archive » CEO Roundtable with Tina Brown: Part 1 – “Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, led this spirited panel of publishing industry heavyweights at the 2009 CEO Roundtable, a signature part of the ?Big Ideas at BEA? conference program. Brown was joined by Brian Murray, President & CEO [...]
Published: June 22, 2009. Read more →
The Long Tailed Book Seer
So in downtime over the past month or so we made The Bookseer, a fun little web app, and it went live last week. It’s really simple, but we’re delighted to note that it has seen a lot of love and quite a lot of action in its first week.
Seeing as the Bookseer is [...]
Published: June 14, 2009. Read more →
Seamus McGarvey, Cinematographer
Seamus McGarvey is an Oscar-nominated cinematographer, who has worked on an incredible range of feature films, promos, and commercials. He’s very talented, very lovely – and we’ve just launched his website.
Based in Edinburgh, but born in Armagh, Seamus’s background was in stills photography before going to film school – and some of his personal stils [...]
Published: June 12, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for June 9th through June 10th
Collaborative Publishing Based on Community Feedback – O’Reilly Labs – “Over the last few years, traditional publishing has been moving closer to the web and learning a lot of lessons from blogs and wikis, in particular. Today we’re happy to announce another small step in that direction: our first manuscript (Programming Scala) is now available [...]
Published: June 11, 2009. Read more →
All Hail The Book Seer
The Book Seer is another little project we’ve just released onto the web. It’s very simple, and hopefully quite nice. Tell it what you’ve just read and it’ll suggest some stuff to read next.
It’s very simple. It’s just pulling suggestions from Amazon and LibraryThing – at the moment. I’d like to pull stuff from more [...]
Published: June 9, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for June 6th through June 7th
Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What’s The Right One For You? | How-To | Smashing Magazine – Reference.
About ePub Zen Garden – “No one denies that printed books are irreplacable. They can be lent, traded, displayed and enjoyed for decades. But electronic books have their place as well. They’re portable, adaptable, infinitely customizable and [...]
Published: June 8, 2009. Read more →
Apt’s links for May 26th through May 31st
The New York Times > Books > Image > Cover Stories –
KDDI au rolls out 8 new (and partly awesome) cell phones – “Toshiba Biblio. (cell phone with integrated e-book reader, a 3.5-inch LCD screen featuring a 960×480 resolution, 7GB internal memory, QWERTY keyboard and Opera Mobile 9.5 including AJAX support)” Interesting that Japanese [...]
Published: June 1, 2009. Read more →