The Olympics is one of those places where all politics stop and amazing events are the rule of the day. I was perusing the USA Team blogs (yes they have them, and its pretty cool) and ran across this blurb: …George W. Bush holds up the American Flag the right way after wife Laura Bush [...]
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“There’s this new trend of organizing books by color. I love this photo by chotda linked via the Rainbow of Books Flickr group. This growing trend is cool but if I were gonna do this, I’d probably have to create a little digital database so I’d be able to find the right book I was [...]
I was reading about how book sellers in Frankfurt where judging how popular books where going to be by how many where stolen… The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual exhibition — the unofficial “most stolen book” index. Bild am Sonntag [...]
I read a lot, and I’ve always found it hard to explain how I sort of skim the books, reading the whole thing, but at the same time not feeling like I am. People pay a lot of money to “learn how to speed read” and my answer is always, don’t let it stress you [...]
Bibliomulas are mules toting mini-libraries to remote communities in Venezuela in an effort to encourage reading. Sometimes, the mules also carry projectors and laptop computers. A BBC News reporter recently took a trip with the Bibliomulas through the foothills of the Andes. From the BBC News: Anyone who was not out working the fields – [...]
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What can bring down a bad blogger? Try a good book. I had a wonderful time at WordCamp and I was kept busy posting about it there (and yes I’ll be doing a follow up). But by Sunday eveing I was drained. I had received the new Harry Potter book that has been getting the [...]
Actually I did… and I didn’t. This months issue had a custom cover sponsored by Xerox. So a few thousand of us who quickly sent in a picture got it on the cover. And so I had a quick snap made, and sent it in. It looks like they didn’t bother centering the people in [...]
As one who has pretty much converted to Ubuntu (I run it dual boot on my two main desktops and haven’t switched back to Windows XP except for a short time in which I needed to use Publisher. Well it seems Ubuntu’s fans are growing fast. Today I learned that there is now an online [...]
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Now I read a couple hundred feeds, rarely do I bring the post count down to zero. But this is amazing. Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the [...]
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Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphoning away lucrative classified advertising.What, then, to make of his suggestion to the publishers that they follow the lead of late night [...]
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