Archive for April, 2011
I received a follow up from Joe White at RJDJ regarding a Pure Data midi note solution I posted about previously:
I saw your blog post about handling midi note data in pure data – http://kemptonmooney.com/2010/09/pure-data-midi-note-off-solution/
I realise this was a while ago for you but I’ve been constantly running into the same problem. I like [...]
An excellent article on book marketing by a man who got a blank book on Amazon’s bestseller chart.
I’ve launched novelty items before, and arguably some have been cleverer or funnier than this book, so why did this book become a global phenomenon?
Reasons the book blew big:
1. A great PR company, which reported stories about the [...]
Having just read the PALE KING by David Foster Wallace, I have been thinking about concentration. Concentration is key element in learning, in being respectful, and in being efficient, things that have always been important to me. So I took a look around and found a couple of simple concentration exercises that I thought were [...]
How do you connect the mini displayport interface on your macbook to a device with RCA input? This one took me a while…
I have an older macbook that had a mini-dvi port and Apple manufactured a mini-dvi to video adapter that allowed it to connect to s-video or composite (RCA) cables. However, my new macbook [...]
Back in my home state, publishers are suing Georgia State University over their use of e-reserves. E-reserves are electroinc compilations of materials for courses put together by professors. Previously, professors put together reader packets by xeroxing parts of texts and compiling them together to be sold at the university bookstore. Universities claim this is covered [...]
Links to a French film on freegans I was interviewed for last year while helping the Food Not Bombs team at ABC No Rio.
http://www.ina.fr/video/4182576001/sous-le-soleil-vert.fr.html
http://documentaires.france5.fr/documentaires/sous-le-soleil-vert
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe81u5_sous-le-soleil-vert-2-3_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe81l0_sous-le-soleil-vert-13_news
One story that has stuck with me for several years has been the one that follows. No one ever believes me when I tell it, so I am putting it here where I can find it, and leaving it in the words of the source with a link so that next time I tell it [...]
Yesterday I attended the BISG NEXT Conference where participants tried to delineate what a publishers program would look like in 2020. One of the highpoints was a talk by Brian O’Leary from Magellan Media. One note that resonated in me was that when a book is put into its physical version, the links to the [...]
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