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This story arrived in my inbox yesterday and like all good headlines it did grab my attention but the more I read the story and similar related ones doing the rounds the more curious I have become about the source and its methodology. The source of the story seems to be a British based magazine called [...] It seems that Twitter is looking to cash in on its users according to this unsurprising news story. Perhaps the collective twitter mind could be tapped for some inspired business ideas. Imagine a tweet from twitter…we love giving you this free service but someone has to pay, send us your ideas. Twitter hiring workers to turn [...] A song by the wonderfully talented Tiffany Eckhardt tells me to shine today, something I’m sure Auntie Gertrude would agree with, my lack of illumination not withstanding, yet I am sorely troubled by two things that have surfaced on my screen in recent times. The first one I want to share is a job ad. I [...] If you missed this doco on SBS, here is a web version. (inbedded player not working) RIP: A remix Manifesto 2.0 | Open Source Cinema – An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright. Auntie Gertrude alerted me to this luvly little video… YouTube – Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff. Guy’s article caught my attention because he revealed the rather depressing news that eBooks outsold their physical predecessors on Amazon over the Christmas Consumer Festival. His argument though is nothing particularly new, the idea that our society and culture are underpinned by various needs and the material way in which these needs are satisfied which [...] In case there is any doubt left in the world, the last two days of rain have finally washed away the last vestiges of support for the rather silly idea that mankind’s addiction to carbon based energy is somehow heating up the planet. What’s that you say? Two days of rain doesn’t make for a cooling [...] A friend turned up tonight with a Kindle which he bought out of Amazon in the US for around $350.00 Oz and generously let me play with it for about 5 minutes which makes this a kind of first impressions report. With its thickish device sandwiched between heavy covers with some sort of mock leather finish [...] Something about this story bugs me. Maybe its the bare facts, $46 Mil vs $1260 Mil which is about 3% of the total market volume putting eBooks around nuisance value. If you look at the $46M it also includes $22M for one title alone, the ubiquitous Dan Brown so the claim that eBooks have sold [...] So I finally got around to watching this lengthy documentary which has been lying around my place for a few years gathering cobwebs. Which is a shame really because it deserves to be watched. However Youtube is everyone’s friend and it looks like the whole thing is available in bits so knock yourselves out. Highlights for [...] |
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