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Art: If you are looking for any confirmation that people are searching for handcrafted simplicity, and they’re willing to pay $125 for it, check out Paper Jam Press’ handcrafted letterpress posters. Ward Shelley creates hand painted elaborate timelines as paintings, placing real events in subjective contexts with stunning results. (hat tip to kottke.org) Books: Bookforum’s [...]
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Hi everyone! I’m back from holiday and looking forward to another great year with The Puget News. For now, a quick video with some compelling storytelling. It’s one Vimeo’s top videos of 2009. Enjoy. [Hat tip to the ever excellent kottke.org]
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I must say, I really like how Google and Bing both work a bit of serendipity into their search engines these days. It helps to go to the site and see a dash of playfulness and personality and adds a human touch, a feeling that there is some editor working on pleasantly surprising the users [...]
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Yeah, you heard me right, that’s not a typo – it’s “Vook“. Strange name for a great overall concept and product that’s a harbinger of what’s to come. All you stodgy warthogs who think that it’s only about the printed page need a reality check. Most authors care about delivering their message and the printed [...]
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Today’s xkcd is brilliant. Edward Tufte eat your heart out.
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On Tuesday afternoon, I went over to Elliott Bay Books to check out Gary Vaynerchuk while he stopped by to talk about his new book, “Crush It.” As usual, his enthusiasm and positive energy was infectious. In fact, the first thing I did when I got home was read the entire book cover to cover [...]
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An interesting look behind the red velvet curtain known as Netflix. You get a bit of the CEO profile (which is worth reading if you’re an internet entrepreneur) and a healthy does of their stealthy, healthy business model. Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD [...]
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The New York Times has Jeff Bezos giving up some new details on the Kindle ebook and ereader businesses in a short technology piece. The fact that they are independent businesses is probably the largest tidbit, and I think will silence a lot of critics who have been flogging Amazon for pushing a highly proprietary [...]
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Wired Magazine has a list of “Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Fiction” which is worth a perusal. The ones that resonate the most with me right now are these: 5. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs. 8. Long tail balkanizes audiences, disrupts means of canon-building and fragments literary reputation. 17. Polarizing [...]
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