February 2012
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The best love poems: writers choose their... →
January 2012
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The Wrong Leonardo? by Charles Hope | The New York... →
December 2011
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7 Things Highly Productive People Do | LinkedIn →
November 2011
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The UK social consumer / We Are Social →
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An ether of sighs...
And I said—“She is warmer than Dian: She rolls through an ether of sighs— She revels in a region of sighs: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies— To the Lethean peace of the skies— Come up, in despite of the Lion, To shine on us with her...
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“But with the mask’s growing popularity, Moore has come to see its appeal...”
– Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask | Books | The Observer
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“The issue of skin colour is a prominent one and not just for “urban...”
– Is ‘urban fiction’ defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author? | Books | The Guardian
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Publishing in China Q&A - Freemium fiction |... →
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“If you want the internet, well, we have it. But the internet is like looking at...”
– Phillip Pullman
Consider the context | The Bookseller
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“But the sheer centrality and vital importance of reading for pleasure is well...”
– Philip Pullman in defence of libraries. Read full speech: Consider the context | The Bookseller
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UK firm Mindshapes raises £3.1m to make its play... →
this should be interesting.
October 2011
9 posts
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How Facebook's New Features Will Affect Digital... →
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Platform Five – The best new social media... →
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“Peer-to-Peer Retail”: Social marketing/commerce... →
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“Before we tackle the question, let me share a quote with you. After hundreds of...”
– What’s the R.O.I.? A Framework for Social Analytics Brian Solis
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Twitter Releases Web Analytics Tool →
This is going to be useful, yes?
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Flavorwire » 10 Disturbingly Brilliant Graphic... →
Another one of them awesome lists I’ll hopefully one day attempt.
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“According to recent obituaries of chick-lit , this much derided literary genre...”
– Interesting thoughts on the genre of Chick-lit.
Should we mourn the end of chick-lit? | Comment is free | The Observer
September 2011
4 posts
Postmodernism: the 10 key moments in the birth of... →
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CHOCOLATE PUDDING | Recipes | Nigella Lawson:... →
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Watch(via Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Video on TED.com
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August 2011
16 posts
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“We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives,...”
– Orson Scott Card (via anastasiabooks)
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Flavorwire » The Best of the Best New Poets of... →
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Flavorwire » 10 Great Movies for Book Lovers →
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Attached to Technology and Paying a Price -... →
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“The real revelation was how quickly and extensively Internet use reroutes...”
– Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine
I’m thinking all this is heavily debatable but worth thinking about all the same.
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“On 6 August 1991, the World Wide Web went live to the world. There was no...”
– 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web was born - TNW Insider
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“What is wonderful about One Day – this, surely, is the reason people love it so...”
– David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry | Books | The Observer
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eModeration Blog: Twitter: when less is more. Tips... →
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“For years now, hardbacks have been published to help ‘set up’ the paperback....”
– Publishing savagery | FutureBook
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“In his forthcoming book Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the...”
– From The true price of publishing | Books | guardian.co.uk
There is a misconception among the public at large about what exactly publishers do. I know that firsthand as a publishing student. When I say I’m doing a Publishing MA some people are like…’so what is that exactly? do you...
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“And Shakespeare would have loved Twitter. So would Groucho Marx. So would Karl...”
– From Tony Parsons on the best people to follow on Twitter - GQ Comment - GQ.COM (UK)
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“It is true - you can’t write Great Expectations in 140 characters. You...”
– Tony Parsons on the best people to follow on Twitter - GQ Comment - GQ.COM (UK)
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“Twitter is not a social-networking site for self-promoting airheads who want...”
– From Tony Parsons on the best people to follow on Twitter - GQ Comment - GQ.COM (UK)
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July 2011
17 posts
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Flavorwire » The Best Art Projects in the History... →
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Apple to book readers: Our way or the highway -... →
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7 (More) Children's Books by Famous "Adult"... →
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Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: Should Online... →
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Flavorwire » Some of Our Favorite Punk Book Covers →
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Flavorwire » Gallery: Maggie Taylor’s Surreal... →
Love how eerie and demented most of them are!
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Flavorwire » 10 Unconventional Bookstores For Your... →
I just want to drop everything and go around the world visiting all these!
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Google gets an e-reader. What it can and can’t do... →