Category: General

From Oreilly: (found via MeFi) But today’s news from Amazon about Print-on-Demand is the latest move from Amazon revealing a trend toward much more aggressive explicit lock-in attempts. Amazon has effectively told publishers that if they wish to sell POD books on Amazon, they must use Amazon as the POD printer. Small/self publishers are unsurprisingly […]

Just sent this on the ezine: ::: TICK-TOCK GOES THE CLOCK Time is running out. Hopefully you’ve had time to listen to the Six Figure Blogging preview call from last night – if not, here it is: http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=2420616 ::: HURRY UP You have just a few more hours to take advantage of the early-bird discount […]

The Six Apart/HP-sponsored theme contest ‘What Do You Have to Say’ has just 2 days left. The response has been absolutely fantastic and it is fun to sit near the team working on this and hear their delight each day as the campaign grows well beyond our initial expectations. If you’re a designista, you’ve got […]

Cryptome got a copy of a 2006 report written by the Joint Special Operations University, part of the US Special Ops Command. The report sees finesse and subtley in using covert blogging: Some of the possible techniques we have explored in our discussion of the military use of blogging require a certain degree of subtlety, […]

Just a quick reminder that the Six Figure Blogging Preview call is tonight (April 2nd) at 8pm EST. This is a free preview of the Six Figure Blogging course which starts next week. If you can make the call, you can still register and get the recording. Full details: http://sixfigureblogging.com/ – keep in mind early-bird […]

Egg shortages are causing scientists to seek other methods of sourcing materials: Under the microscope the round bundles of cells look like any other three-day-old embryos. In fact they are hybrids – part-human, part-animal. They were created by injecting DNA derived from human skin cells into eggs taken from cows ovaries which have had virtually […]

Slowly eating more and more MS Office lunch: (nom nom nom) As you’ll read on the Google Docs blog, starting today and over the coming weeks we’re rolling out offline editing access to word processing documents to Google Docs users. You no longer need an Internet connection when inspiration strikes. Whether you’re working on an […]

The New Yorker has a story on the death of the American newspaper. They mention The Huffington Post and their content strategy: The Huffington Post’s editorial processes are based on what Peretti has named the “mullet strategy.” (“Business up front, party in the back” is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.) “User-generated content is […]

I think I did this a few months ago. Probably time to do it again. [U]sing a service like Gmail means you don’t have a local backup of your e-mail like you would get if you were using a desktop client. Naturally, that doesn’t mean you can’t store backups of your e-mail on your local […]

YouTube, which makes the bulk of its revenue from selling display ads that run on the right-hand side of the site’s homepage, has not been a moneymaker for Google. The company states YouTube’s revenues last year were “not material” in a regulatory filing. The search giant paid $1.6 billion for the company in October 2006. […]