Daily Archives: April 25, 2011

Reading, eBooks, Books, And Writing

Grasping for the Wind has three interesting posts up: Guest Post: Reading Differently by Keith Brooke Have those of us involved in “professional” publishing been getting it wrong? Have we reached the stage where mainstream publishing — and writing — … Continue reading

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CBS: CHAOS

I watched the three episodes, was waiting to see if the fourth one would keep me — but the fourth one never aired and I just learned today that’s because CBS pulled the show from its schedule. A very strange … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Bill Blackbeard

Bill Blackbeard, The Man Who Saved Comics, Dead at 84 Blackbeard was largely instrumental in affecting a major cultural change, Robb said: “His actions transformed comic strips into objects with legitimate cultural, historic and sometimes even aesthetic value.” I’m sure … Continue reading

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Opera: A Basket Case

1) There is no sensible way to import my Speed Dial from another install. The suggestions in the Support forum were all FAIL. 2) Without any sense to it and despite plug-ins being disabled just for it, YahooMail has begun … Continue reading

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Another Yahoo Failure: MyBlogLog

Via email: Yahoo! MyBlogLog to be discontinued Dear MyBlogLog Customer, You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies … Continue reading

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Facebook Wakes Up While Twitter Snores

Sharing with Small Groups I’m not going to elaborate. Twitter has to do it for themselves. Put down those fucking bongs, children. Facebook is stealing the adults from you. Previously here: Twitter’s New Sign-Out Page Bailing On Twitter: Timing! Another … Continue reading

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How To Win: The User Doesn’t Care

If you can understand that the user doesn’t care, you’ll go far — as Apple has been doing.

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MobiHandler For Kindle Books

Announcing: MobiHandler (a Windows program)

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NookColor Updates Android To Froyo (2.2)

Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps Manual download page: Software Updates – Version 1.2.0 I don’t know what ZDNet means by this: There’s no need to hack the Nook Color into an Android tablet anymore … Continue reading

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BBC 4 Radio Collections

Main page American writers UK/other writers

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