Times emit http://aptstudio.com/timesemit Mostly involving links about publishing, technology and design Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Apt’s links for July 1st http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/2008/07/02/apts-links-for-july-1st/ http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/2008/07/02/apts-links-for-july-1st/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:34:04 +0000 Peter Collingridge http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/2008/07/02/apts-links-for-july-1st/
  • Atlantic Rising - Consumer @ FolioMag.com - “Why heavy investment in digital will save the 150-year-old magazine.”
  • Donnachie, Simionato & Son - Interesting, ish, thingimajig,
  • Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides) - Timesink.
  • Best Practices for Spreading Your App without Ruining the User Experience (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides) - “Before you plan a business model, make sure you have a pleasure model”
  • If You Knew Sushi: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com - “how to correctly pronounce the name of this place: “tskee-gee.”". Great piece on Tokyo’s amazing fish market.
  • How to write a movie | News | guardian.co.uk Film - “But above all, read Karoo, a novel by the late, great screenwriter Steve Tesich, who did The World According to Garp.” Fuck me. The first time anyone - anyone - has ever mentioned my favourite book in the world. Hallelujah.
  • Delighting with Data, tomtaylor.co.uk - Wonderful, geeky presentation on data and making it come to life.
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  • Amazon’s Road to Profitability: Toll Booths on Your Road to Readers - Tools of Change for Publishing - “Current operating margins are around 4.5%.”
  • @Future of Journalism: Chasing ratings | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk -
  • @Future of Journalism: Net video - how not to be like TV | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk -
  • A Photo Editor - Scott Dadich, Creative Director- Wired Magazine -
  • A List Apart: Articles: Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping -
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  • BBC - Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour -The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing -
  • SEOmoz | Beginner’s Guide to SEO - Single Page Version - Aha. Note to self. Direct clients here.
  • Diego Ulrich - Yes. Nice letterpress work on the history of the book from St Martins degree show.
  • Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle - “The Kindle does a fine job of being a book reader, and a horrible job of actually improving the act of reading a book.” Some very interesting social book ideas from Seth
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  • Loimer Riesling White Wine Kamptal 2006 food and wine pairings, ratings, and reviews -
  • Elevator Pitch: Snooth’s web plans for the wine-drinking world | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk - Another social wine app - this one with retail. Still, can’t find me a UK retailer for the Martinetti Gavi di Gavi 2006….
  • YouTube - The Black Ghosts ‘Some Way Through This’ - Mmmhmmm. Emo dubstep and stop-motion lego. Yes.
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  • Lessons from My Father: The Outlaw - MSN Lifestyle: Men - “He taught me to love the power of big guns” Hunter Thompson’s memories of his dad.
  • Art: ‘Crying Men’ by Sam Taylor-Wood - Weird. New client Seamus’ photos for Sam Taylor Wood - possibly taken four or more years ago - suddenly meme.
  • The Magazineer - Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing - “If you can make a PDF, you can now publish a magazine.”
  • Small Publishers Feel Power of Amazon’s ‘Buy’ Button - NYTimes.com - “Amazonâs power as a bookseller is increasing, with sales growing online in an otherwise tepid global book market. Some … fear that … the company will rise into a position to be able to demand more concessions”
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  • the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages - Wow! Super cool tool for highlighting text on a web page, and then linking to that page with the text highlighted. Should I get out more, or is this really great?
  • Prediction: The Kindle Goes Down in FLAMES - Tennant: Digital Libraries - Blog on Library Journal - “Someone at the Oxford University Press seems to think that the Amazon Kindle is selling like hotcakes. All I have to say about this is: “are you on drugs?”" Fun, snarky, probably true.
  • TidBITS Opinion: No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given - “I’ve proved over four years that ebook piracy is not a fact of Internet nature, and I’d argue that it’s something that all authors could both control and profit from. The trick, as always, is to watch how the recording industry behaves and do the opposit
  • Readers Have Their Say in the E-Publishing Debate - Pogueâs Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - âWith the advent of low-cost, high-speed OCR scanners, all one will have to do is take a band saw to the binding and then hit Scan. When this technology becomes commonplace, the âBookzâ scene will take off.â
  • Publishing News - News Home Page - Support for Hachette in Amazon dispute - “Most observers feel that Hachette has the upper hand.” This is going to get very, very interesting - I Hope
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  • Digital Prolixity: Don’t be fooled by Apple’s cunning knavery! - Great piece on how Apple *needs* market share to even begin to be able to compete with Google’s android when it comes out later this year. Hence the price drop.
  • Monopolizing Reading | Medialoper - “The publishing industry is waiting for its iPod moment, but the music industry has learned a hard lesson: when you cede your business to one retailer, then, well, youâve lost control.”
  • BookExpoCast » Blog Archive » Upfront and Unscripted with Jeff Bezos - Just when I had given up hope on BEA releasing interesting podcasts this year - Bezos and Chris Anderson in discussion. Hope it’s worth it.
  • I donât like any of my ebook readers | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - “Quite by accident I find myself reading three different books on three different readers… The result has been that Iâve found that I really donât like any of these platforms. A paperback is still a more comfortable way to read.” Teleread.
  • Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns? - Pogueâs Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - “Twice in my career, âblindâ people e-mailed me, requesting a PDF of one of my books. Both times, I sent one overâand both times, it was all over the piracy sites within 48 hours, free for anyone to download.”
  • Age banding will lead to a two-tier book trade | Books | guardian.co.uk - It was getting a bit marginal until Michael Rosen stepped in, “I’ve also found with my children that when, say, they’ve just turned 7, they are much less mature than when they are nearly 8.”
  • Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page? - ReadWriteWeb - “are publishers barking up the wrong tree with experiments in web publishing that mash books with web technology?”
  • Denny Hatch’s Business Common Sense - 7/13/06 - Book Pirates!-Diary of an Amateur Web Sleuth - “…many publishers are congenital liars about book sales and regularly screw authors out of royalties” - this guy has had his father’s books pirated, and really isn’t very happy about it.
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  • Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Contextual Understanding - “to what extent does commuting differ around the world? … check out slide 32 onwards in the presentation below for a breakdown of contextual factors affecting adoption for commuting in Seoul.” Lots of great insight about use of mobile devices
  • HC Shares Results of Online Giveaways - 6/9/2008 - Publishers Weekly - “[HarperCollins statistics] indicate that readers seem to be turned on to print books after viewing free content on the Web.” No shit.
  • BBC to build web page for every TV show, says Jana Bennett | Media | guardian.co.uk - “The project has already seen the corporation create more than 160,000 individual web pages over the past three months, with developers looking to create content for shows going back to the 1930s.”
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  • Tomorrow’s everyday | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books - Slightly unsatisfying interview with Charlie Stross.
  • Explainer: Search engine optimisation | Media | The Guardian - Good primer from Guardian.
  • Book publishing in America | Unbound | Economist.com - Note to self.
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  • Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Dear New York Times Mobile - Zeldman (and comments, in particular) on the joys of standardising typographically correct punctuation in CMS and browsers….
  • adaptive path blog : The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes - “delivering great Internet experiences on mobile devices will be less about âmobilizingâ web sites and web pages and more about dismantling the page-based organizing principle into a more flexible one.”
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