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DIY Ideas At Home - Make Best Out Of Waste Here in this book I am going to share with all some creative ideas on how to use old and waste material in your house. You will be amazed to know that you can make useful and creative items from those materials at your home only. I myself tried these ideas and get praised by family and friends

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.

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."

As we're unlikely to be actually designing many of the UI for publishing apps ourselves, it's never a bad idea to have this in the back of your mind when speaking with your design firm/vendor/department at the start of a project. Especially, with the growth of smartphones, mid-sized and larger sized tablet devices.

Coming late to the party, the big six publishers are warming to the idea of e-books for libraries.  

Why it is important to fully think through one's marketing plans...this is also a great example of real-life viral marketing that started from a rather creative author idea. :)

Really, really great interview series with authors, publishers and writers about their ideas for the future of reading. Includes Clay Shirky, Maria Popova & Clive Thompson. Also nice to see a blog like this on tumblr.

Crowdfunded ebook operation that is just releasing it's first "unglued" edition, that is, not proprietary to any device and free to all who want to download it.  What's cool about Unglue.it is that they're attempting to raise money for specific publishing projects to compensate authors, and get their work out to anyone who can download it.  It's early and success is not guaranteed, but it's a cool idea!

In light of demands by the State of Texas for biology textbooks with "balanced"  treatment of evolution. "So here's the missing piece: what about the textbook companies? When this issue is discussed, the publishers are talked about as if they have no agency, no ability to affect the outcome of these events. But they're morally culpable for participating in these farces. If they wanted, they could stand up to the state of Texas. So how can the people who work at a publisher in good conscience agree to write a biology textbook that treats evolution as a wild, unsupported idea?

A literary agent's perspective on the book industry, its threats and some ideas about expanding copyright protections.

Bookswim aims to be Netflix for books. Comments on this article from book authors are worth reading.

EW's pop-culture columnist takes a Beretta and blowtorch to the idea that men don't read.

Always a good idea to keep up with Web site trends. Many businesses are now using Facebook, etc. to network, it'd be nice to be on the forefront of something instead. Plus, there's just some neat stuff here.

Kevin Kelly has an interesting discussion of eight BIG IDEAS,further expanding on selling things that cannot be copied.

This is a great site that can incorporate reading books into your RSS Feed. The idea is that you get a book sent to your Reader in installments that are a few paragraphs long each. I think this is pertinent to both our classes.

This seems like a pretty fabulous idea to me from the student side....I could see why publishers probably aren't terribly thrilled though. (I'd be interested to see an adaptation for renting e-books, which isn't mentioned in the article as being extant...yet, anyway). Netflix for textbooks, indeed!

ideas to localize the relevance of a newspaper issue by tailoring advertising and other content for local circulation.

Some publications are looking beyond the standard glossy format to experiment with ideas of what a magazine can be."

Found this interesting, if for no other reason than as proof that the world at large is thinking about the implications of moving even past Web 2.0 and on to Web 3.0 (My apologies -- while I have referenced the article as translated by Babelfish, the original article is in French so the English may be a bit choppy; the ideas seem to remain intact, however, and the author's speculations about the future of the Web are interesting). Original link, for those who read French: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/506930/que-nous-prepare-le-web-3-0/

Pulling media sites out of Google search results is a bold idea, but there are many reasons to think it's not the future of the web.