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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 [...] Interesting… How to you defeat an idea? Shall we put two ideas in a ring together and see which one is victorious after a number of rounds? The two ideas can slug it out for the amusement of punters and the financial benefit of the promoter. But the metaphor is inadequate since a defeated idea can simply [...] Ms Devine has a habit of penning some enticing lines, I mean the topic of Gen Y and politics seems enticing as does her exploration of the Green Police ad that screened during the US Super Bowl but her article simply fail to deliver anything new. When Labor came to power in 2007 only the [...] 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 [...] Twitter has been on my mind a bit lately and David Carr’s piece reminded me of a draft post I have in the pile of unfinished stuff lying around. At first I thought the two lines of thought might cross over but Davi’d article takes a fairly familiar line so I guess my Twitter Confession [...] 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 [...] A good friend recently introduced me to McSweeney’s so I’m sharing the love around… McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview.. 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 [...] 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 [...] Two morsels on the todo list this morning as I watch the cockies fly past the window. Now that the Parallel Import Restrictions saga has been put to bed I guess writers and dead tree publishers will have to contend with something beyond the powers of governments to control, the march of the technology corporations. Perennial [...] |
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