Monthly Archives: May 2011

Trademark Filing: Nook Community Edition

This is a very strange filing! For Barnes & Noble under its beard, Fission LLC. What the hell is a “community edition” Nook?!

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Why Does Google Own Hello.Com?

I was thinking about automagic seamless data sharing in 2015 and got it into my head to see who owned hello.com. Yes, my mind makes leaps like that. Google does, if I read the record correctly. Relevant screensnap portion after … Continue reading

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RSS Update: Killing The Hamster Wheel!

Apparently my latest setting for checking feeds with the Firefox LiveClick add-on — thirty-five minutes — is still too short. Video viewing, or JPEG editing, or post creation, or just plain reading gets interrupted by the damn notifications too soon. … Continue reading

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Only An Idiot Would Buy Advertising On Twitter

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iWork In 2011 Is Just So 2007 To Me

2011: Apple brings iWork to iPhone and iPod touch Click = big

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Missing The Point Of Blake’s 7

Nigel Kneale “I think the low point for me would be the very few bits I’ve seen of a thing called Blake’s 7 which I found paralytically awful. The dialogue/characterisation seemed to consist of a kind of childish squabbling” That … Continue reading

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Overthinking A Book Cover: Disaster!

If you’re a writer, you’re not expected to be a designer. Hell, you shouldn’t even try to be a designer. Pay the money for a real cover! Would you go out into the world if your face was horribly disfigured? … Continue reading

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A Five Year Bet

Written off? [Bradley] Graham and his wife recently purchased Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., one of the nation’s premier independent bookstores. What was he thinking? “We’re not a dying breed,’’ Graham insists. “There are still enough of us who … Continue reading

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The Final Nail In The Coffin Of PBS

Gary Null, years ago, correctly identified what PBS had become: “Non-commercial commercial television.” Now it will become full-blown commercial television! PBS Plans Promotional Breaks Within Programs PBS officials told member stations at its recent annual meeting in Orlando that beginning … Continue reading

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Pixel Qi Bombshell: Three Million Screens Shipped!

Charbax is a charmer. And he has a great relationship with Mary Lou Jepson of Pixel Qi. In the video after the break, he really gets her to talk — and we get an incredible look at the back of … Continue reading

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