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FREE eBooks For TODAY Only!! "Drawing For Beginners - From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Fo... - 0 views

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    Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms - Kindle edition by Renee B. Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms.
amby kdp

Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms - 0 views

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    Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms [Renee B. Williams] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drawing For Beginners - From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms This guide is for thos who love drawing and sketching
Ryan Holman

The Threat of Silence: Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize ... - 1 views

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    "Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?
Matt Mayer

Live from Apple's education event! -- Engadget - 0 views

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    Here's the Apple Education event live blog from Engadget.  There's some big news regarding iBooks 2 and Apple's vision of the future for textbooks. Interesting stuff!
Paul Riccardi

Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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    Twitter walked away from a $500 million offer from Facebook. Why? They're confident that they can find a way to tap into their unique search capabilities and make a lot of money on highly targeted advertising.
arnie Grossblatt

Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind - ChronicleReview.com - 0 views

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    Starting from a study that finds different reading practices for online content and print (or scanning vs. slow reading) the author argues against the trend of increasing technology investment in education. I think the argument would profit from a publisher's perspective, one where it's vital to evaluate how the content fits (or doesn't fit) the format. Like the author, I don't want to read Middlemarch ( my favorite novel) online, nor can I imagine anyone who would or who require it read in that format. Bottom line for me - publishers have much to offer the educational establishment.
Derik Dupont

Amazon.com`s sales of digital books could increase 84% in 2010 | InternetReta... - 0 views

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    Amazon.com Inc. could sell $248 million worth of digital books in 2010, up 84% from $135 million in 2009, according to an estimate from Credit Suisse ...
Stephanie Wynn

090322A Future Perfect: Our Computers - 2 views

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    This is a segment from a "To the Best of Our Knowledge" podcast from a few weeks ago. Mr. Creative Commons (Lawrence Lessig), of course, says the copyright laws are too strict, but he talked in particular about the laws in relation to new technologies, in particular, mashup artists.
Derik Dupont

Reuters to overhaul website and hints at charging for content - Media news - Media Week - 1 views

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    Read Reuters to overhaul website and hints at charging for content & other Media Week news online. Reuters to overhaul website and hints at charging for content from Media Week. Media Week magazine - news and information from the world of media
Derik Dupont

New Media, Old Media | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) - 1 views

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    The Lead Teaser: The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press. But they also differ greatly from each other. Across a year-long study of blogs, Twitter and YouTube,
Thelisha Woods

Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing , Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
arnie Grossblatt

Malcolm Gladwell vs Chris Anderson: a very intellectual bust up - 0 views

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    About the Gladwell's review of Free (the new book from Anderson) and the rebuttal from Anderson
Derik Dupont

Amazon Cuts Kindle To $259 From $299; Unveils International Version For More Than 100 C... - 1 views

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    Amazon.com (AMZN) has cut the price of the Kindle e-book reader to $259 from $299, the company announced. Amazon also unveiled plans to sell an international version of the Kindle in more than 100 countries. The international version will be priced at $279; it goes on sale October 19. Until [...]
Derik Dupont

Barnes & Noble, Borders Express Concern About the Economy - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Borders and Barnes & Noble posted downbeat results and expressed fear the weak economy will keep shoppers from stores despite offerings from well-known authors." />
Ryan Holman

Little e, Big B: Books and EBooks and Love and War - 0 views

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    Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.
arnie Grossblatt

The Great Debate from The London Book Fair - The Publishing Point - 0 views

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    The proposition "All that matters are authors and readers; publishers will soon be irrelevant" is debated in a video from the  London Book Fair.
amby kdp

Eat Nourish And Grow: Live Healthy, Grow Better and Lose Weight: Cheryl Barnhart: 97815... - 0 views

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    Eat Nourish And Grow: Live Healthy, Grow Better & Lose Weight [Cheryl Barnhart] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Understanding the Importance of Nutrition What Is Eat Nourish and Grow? Understanding the 5 W's Of Eat Nourish and Grow Process to Reach a Healthy Point in Life Telling the World Why Eating Healthy Is Important Make Sure You Always Talk With Full Understanding Selecting the Right Foods for Your Health Needs Losing Weight Even As You Stay Healthy Get Your Children Involved In the Eating Healthy Process Eating Healthy Even During Holidays Acquire More Information on the Internet about Eating Healthy Never Forget To Involve Exercising Drink More and More Water Stay Away From Junk Foods Buy Quality Foods from Online Stores
arnie Grossblatt

Penguin withholds new e-books from UK library suppliers - 1 views

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    This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.  
Ryan Holman

Understanding Users of Social Networks - HBS Working Knowledge - 1 views

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  • "No one uses MySpace" To continue on the issue of online representation of offline societal trends, Piskorski also looked at usage patterns of MySpace. Today's perception is that Twitter has the buzz and Facebook has the users. MySpace? Dead; no one goes there anymore. Tell a marketer that she ought to have a MySpace strategy and she'll look at you like you have a third eye. But Piskorski points out that MySpace has 70 million U.S. users who log on every month, only somewhat fewer than Facebook's 90 million and still more than Twitter's 20 million in the U.S. Its user base is not really growing, but 70 million users is nothing to sneeze at. So why doesn't MySpace get the attention it deserves? The fascinating answer, acquired by studying a dataset of 100,000 MySpace users, is that they largely populate smaller cities and communities in the south and central parts of the country. Piskorski rattles off some MySpace hotspots: "Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Florida." They aren't in Dallas but they are in Fort Worth. Not in Miami but in Tampa. They're in California, but in cities like Fresno. In other words, not anywhere near the media hubs (except Atlanta) and far away from those elite opinion-makers in coastal urban areas. "You need to shift your mindset from social media to social strategy." "MySpace has a PR problem because its users are in places where they don't have much contact with people who create news that gets read by others. Other than that, there is really no difference between users of Facebook and MySpace, except they are poorer on MySpace." Piskorski recently blogged on his findings.
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      This I find interesting: if I read this right, it would mean that if you had something that was of a more local interest and away from the major cities -- the biography of a local football player, a history of local landmarks, a self-published book by a local political figure, etc. -- it might be effective to have a MySpace strategy as well in the mix, which wouldn't necessarily be the first strategy to come to mind.
  • Women and men use these sites differently.
  • Piskorski has also found deep gender differences in the use of sites. The biggest usage categories are men looking at women they don't know, followed by men looking at women they do know. Women look at other women they know. Overall, women receive two-thirds of all page views.
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      I'm not entirely sure I agree with their broad characterization of the gender differences in how social networking sites are used, but my evidence to the contrary is also anecdotal and the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." :-)
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  • To continue the earlier analogy, "You should come to the table and say, 'Here is a product that I have designed for you that is going to make you all better friends.' To execute on this, firms will need to start making changes to the products themselves to make them more social, and leverage group dynamics, using technologies such as Facebook Connect. But I don't see a lot of that yet. I see (businesses) saying, 'Let's talk to people on Twitter or let's have a Facebook page or let's advertise.' And these are good first steps but they are nowhere close to a social strategy."
Ellen Levy

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
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    A thoughtful discussion on the root of big ideas and innovation. I found this talk particularly apt to the publishing business and the business model innovations we're currently discussing. "Chance favors the connected mind."
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