14 days ago
deusx : Roadside Picnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The name of the novel derives from a metaphor proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the visit to a roadside picnic. After the picnickers depart, nervous animals venture forth from the adjacent forest and discover the picnic ga
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16 days ago
deusx : Amazon.com: Concise Guide to Dojo: Leslie M. Orchard: Books - "Packed with useful information and lots' of insightful examples The Concise Guide to Dojo, taken from the forthcoming Professional JavaScript Frameworks book, provides experienced web developers a quick path to understanding and utilizing Dojo:
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24 days ago
deusx : 5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk - "People ask me all the time how they can get a book deal. So I had my agent write a post on how to get a book deal. But really, I'm telling you, you probably don't need to write a book. Every time I ask someone why they want to write a book
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1 month ago
Anil : Me and Your Bicycle - My friend Mat Honan amused and beguiled you a few months ago with Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle. As is the course of such things, he got a book deal for his efforts, despite having been responsible for the onslaught of unfunny ripoffs of the site whi
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1 month ago
deusx : Publishers should all have a /covers directory - Boing Boing - "Here's a lazyweb idea for publishers: I often blog books here and when I do, I like to put up a picture of the cover. ... So here's the idea: publishers should create default directories called "covers" at their server-root (e.g
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2 month ago
deusx : Tinderbox: The Tinderbox Way - "Tinderbox is a tool for notes, a personal content assistant. The Tinderbox Way takes a close look at Tinderbox and its underlying ideas, exploring not just the program's mechanics but also its design and its spirit. "
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2 month ago
philgyford : YouVersion | A Revolutionary Online Bible Reader - All signed-up readers can contribute notes about passages from many different versions of the Bible. Quite complex but usable interface. (via TUAW)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience - Nice clear description of having a book published. Even if you have a publisher, you're on your own. (via Kottke)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Seth's Blog: Advice for authors - More advice for when you're having a book published.
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2 month ago
deusx : Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax, PHP: New on Wrox First Wikis - "And on Professional JavaScript Frameworks, we've got 7 chapters out of the 39 planned. so far we're focusing on YUI (2 chapters), Dojo (3 chapters), and MooTools (2 chapters). Soon, we'll start adding jQuery, Prototype, and ExtJS chap
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3 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "Travellers Back in Time" - I collected all the fiction mentioned in the Kottke and Marginal Revolution posts about "How would you survive if you travelled back to 1000AD?" and made them into an Amazon Listmania list.
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gleuschk : Digital Domain - First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. - NYTimes.com - Hm: "Whether students will view online subscriptions as a helpful adjunct to the printed textbook or as a self-aggrandizing ploy by publishers remains to be seen." Really? Care to make a small wager?
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adamrg : Knock Knock - Gifts, Stationary and Unique Crap -- I really like the high snark level.
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3 month ago
joshua : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - a zoomabe zui for amazon
Andy Baio : Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon - Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves [via]
Rod Begbie : Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - Whizzy Amazon-browsing UI, for those who like to judge books by their covers. [via] #
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3 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.com: "Revolutions and State Collapse" - I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn't save it at the time.
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Digital Natives » Google Book Search, Orphan Works and the Public Domain
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4 month ago
deusx : O'Reilly Author and Editor Air Concerns on Industry Pressures - Tools of Change for Publishing - "I'll organize my comments under three categories: unpredictable time commitments, external market pressures, and staff responses. I've run these comments by Baron."
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4 month ago
deusx : Backup Brain - "A big problem I have with these sort of blog posts, though, is that too many of them ... are written after one book, or one editor, or one publishing company. ... and you really can't extrapolate anything meaningful from a single data point."
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deusx : How Book Authors Can Promote Their Work with Social Media - "As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authors’ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."
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deusx : My New Role at Wiley - "I will be taking a new position at Wiley, serving as the Associate Publisher of Technology for Wiley’s EMEA Group beginning July 1. I will be based in the US, but will have an office at our UK division located in Chichester to which I will trave
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4 month ago
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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4 month ago
nelson : Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - interesting details on a pre-1500 printed book with remarkable design
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