Daily Archives: September 8, 2010
The Suit Credo
Telephones, hotels, insurance—its all the same. If you know the numbers inside out, you know the company inside out. via Harold Geneen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Now you know why the world is dying. That!
Filed under Pottersville, Quoted, Reference
Suits Destroy, Period!
The Commodification of Publishing & Media It Takes Decades To Build a Brand, Moments to Destroy It Today, many companies talk about their valuable “content assets” and the “communities” built over the course of decades. Media and publishing companies change … Continue reading
Filed under Pottersville
A Rare iPad Post Here
VLC Submits iPad App to App Store Now, my calm, rational, personal suggestion to Apple: FOR GOD’S SAKE, APPLE, APPROVE IT!!! KEEP ME FROM SPENDING MONEY ON AN ARCHOS TABLET OR SOME OTHER DEVICE!!! MAKE THE iPAD THE INDISPENSABLE ALL-IN-ONE … Continue reading
Filed under Apple: The Company
If Your Startup Can’t Get Money In New York Right Now, There’s Something Wrong With It
One plugged in digital media exec told us, “If you can’t get money for your startup right now, then there’s something wrong with you.” Other people in the scene basically confirmed this, but added a few caveats. via If Your … Continue reading
HTML5 Microdata: Why isn’t anyone talking about it?
Microdata adoption by web developers Web browsers and Google have little reason to support Microdata if us web developers aren’t marking up our webpages with it. Plain and simple. Take a few moments to learn the Microdata API a little, … Continue reading
Why Tumblr Sucks. | Zach Inglis
Why Tumblr Sucks. | Zach Inglis He has different reasons than I had. I’m not sorry I left, although I do miss the template for Quote Posts. That’s not the same here at WordPress.
Filed under Blog Notes
They’ll Be The First To Whine Too
Ultra-Rich in Finance Are Meaner Than Rest of Us: Matthew Lynn Today: There is an increasing amount of evidence that the rich are a vicious tribe of people. One study last year from the University of California, Berkeley, found that … Continue reading
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Kobo: Desktop View Vs. ePub Formatting
Today has turned a bit into Kobo Day, as I try to make sense of their system. What I believe is going on is this: 1) Kobo is its own system, apart from everything else. It stores eBooks in an … Continue reading
Filed under Kobo Reader
Know Thy Shelf » Blog Archive » Why Publishers Fear Metadata
That being said, metadata can be the key to making publishing a highly profitable and thriving industry. Quality metadata linked with sales data provides high quality in prediction of sales. via Know Thy Shelf » Blog Archive » Why Publishers … Continue reading
Filed under eBooks: General, Marketing, Quoted
Busted Flush Press: Busted Flush Press joins forces with Tyrus Books!
Busted Flush Press: Busted Flush Press joins forces with Tyrus Books! I’m late to this news! I hope they’ll all be put out in e too. There goes even more of my money (if I have any left over after … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, eBooks: General
