February 2012
10 posts
“An 18th-century Christmas dish, Hannah Glasse’s Good Goose Pye, is...”
– A Festive Menu Even a Cook Can Love
“Every time a book comes up in conversation, your dude friends will ask “Did you...”
– n 1: Listening to Books
“Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies... →
via @acroll
Book: A Futurist's Manifesto: Part 2
We are very happy to announce the second installment of “Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto,” (published by O’Reilly and edited by Hugh McGuire of PressBooks and Brian O’Leary), with new essays from Eli James, Erin McKean, Terry Jones, Aaron Miller and Travis Alber, Brett Sandursky, Ron Martinez, Peter Brantley, Kassia Krozser and Hugh McGuire.
While Part One defined the...
“15. If you open a (book)store in a college town, and maybe even if you...”
– 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
via @acroll
January 2012
18 posts
“…The thing about jail is that there are bars on the windows and they won’t...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
“Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras,...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood (YCombinator)
SOPA BLACKOUT →
An Introduction to PressBooks: A Digital Book... →
“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor...”
– Rick Santorum: No One Has Ever Died Because They Didn’t Have Health Care
What is it like to have an understanding of very... →
Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the... →
“Our son recently chose to read a book for English class that is way over his...”
– Rambling Follower: On LibriVox, A Connecticut Yankee and A Struggling Reader
December 2011
15 posts
The Offering of Images - Robert Ashley →
A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
Off On a Tangent: Books I Loved That Were Not... →
offonatangent:
I am getting around to one of those dreaded “Best of” Lists - more on that eventually - but in the meantime, a different sort of list:
Stanley Ellin, THE EIGHTH CIRCLE (1958) — I pretty much flipped for this book, calling it the best private detective novel I’ve ever read. Eight months later I…
“This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with...”
– Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How... →
“In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web
“As we all know, the Internet won. It was the triumph of distributed innovation...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web via @mitchjoel
Lean back media: the shock of the old
Lean back media: the shock of the old
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S.... →
Forgotten knowledge « Jon Udell →
New Audiobook Releases: Darkness and Light in... →
It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing... →
via @acroll
Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing... →
Chris Brogan and I chat by Skype Video about “PressBooks and the Future of Digital Publishing.”
Note: that’s Movember mustache.
November 2011
24 posts
Web-first workflows let publishers focus on the... →
(featuring me!)
Queen Esther's Kickstarter Project: Black...
Hey! You should check out my pal Queen Esther’s Kickstarter project to finish off her (sure to be awesome) Black Americana album.
The Heaviest #MediaHacks Podcast Ever, about... →
“SIR – Thanks for the story nine years ago on the benefits of office clutter (“In...”
– A letter from Australia. (via theeconomist)
Ignorance is bliss when it comes to challenging... →