15 hours ago
Greg Storey : Bradley. - A very touching story. One that hits too close to home. Probably for most of us.
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12 days ago
Greg Storey : "One day, Steve Jobs is going to die." - Fantastic lead.
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24 days ago
Linkorama : How to write in plain English - by Harvard School of Public Health
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26 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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2 month ago
deusx : Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater - "You put this stuff in without any plan, yet, like all good atoms, they form themselves into molecules."
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2 month ago
deusx : Warren Ellis » On Teleportation - "Teleportation should be a matter of simply proving you’re somewhere else."
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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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3 month ago
deusx : WisCon - The World's Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention - "WisCon encourages discussion and debate of ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class. WisCon welcomes writers, editors and artists whose work explores these themes as well as their many fans"
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3 month ago
deusx : shock: social science fiction - "Shock: Social Science Fiction is a fiction game of culture and future shock"
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4 month ago
deusx : 826michigan - "If you have happened by 826michigan lately, you may have noticed that we have had people working on our robot store seven days a week, all hours of the day and night."
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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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4 month ago
deusx : The Prose Medium and IF « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction - "Words in interactive fiction individually carry more weight than they carry in static prose, if only because of the amount of attention we demand the player give to each one."
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deusx : FreakAngels » Interlude 02 - "I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.&quo
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Exits: Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo - I have such a crush on Stewart
Andy Baio : Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter - best resignation ever
Rod Begbie : Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter - That's the way to do it. "Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!" [via] #
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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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gleuschk : How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine - seemed interesting, at least on a skim
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deusx : The Real Power of Personal Branding | chrisbrogan.com - "Try your damnedest to be true to the things that make you who you are, and try your best to improve upon those gifts you have, and compensate for the ones you lack."
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deusx : Notional Slurry » Personal brand: red hot, with a smell of burnt flesh - "Branding is what you do to shit you plan to sell in a bottle, when you don’t want to give away the recipe but do want to assure customers that it will consistently be the same shit no matter which branded bottle they open. A brand is a promise of
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deusx : Concentrate - Guest Blogger: Ed Vielmetti - "There are people here who have been communicating with their neighbors by typing at them for long enough that it's second nature, and that makes writing a local blog about where to go juneberry picking (in front of the library) sound less like somet
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4 month ago
gleuschk : What is your deal. -- Joshua G. Allen - Squee! (aka, dude, seriously now. resignation. on desk.)
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4 month ago
gleuschk : In Case Of Actual Death - Kevin Fanning - Would the person in charge of letting me know about things like this please leave their resignation on my desk on their way out?
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