I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence – quailblog
https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR - charged so excessively to be made an example of (we're talking 35 years in prison, $1million USD fine, and asset forfeiture) to the point where he felt the need to take his own life rather than deal with the court circus and impending financial ruin - while Facebook (oh I’m sorry Meta) has torrented 80 TERABYTES of books to train their AI models with virtually no consequences other than a court case they will most likely get some sort of financial slap on the wrist for while their AI models continue to print them money.
Banned Book Library | Rick's Blog
https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
A long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to modify the device to have an open WiFi access point and a web server hosting banned books. The idea was that if you lived somewhere that banned books you thought were important, you could theoretically stick a digital copy of the book on one of these light bulbs. Then you could go install it somewhere in your community. As long as the light bulb is switched on, then anyone in the vicinity can still access the banned material assuming they have an electronic device with WiFi. Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed. A cyberpunk digital dead drop. These devices are also fairly inexpensive, so leaving them around town as is hopefully not very cost prohibitive.
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existence-and-the-end-of-co-intelligence
Two years ago, the question I was trying to answer was how to think alongside a new kind of intelligence. Now the questions are weirder: When should you refuse AI’s help, even when it is offering? When should you hand over the keys entirely? And what do you do when the AI is no longer just your assistant, but your reader, your critic, and the gatekeeper standing between your work and its audience? Writing this book meant living with all three questions at once, and I suspect your job will involve them soon, if it doesn’t already.
Welcome to Booklore | Booklore
https://booklore.org/
A modern way to organize, read, and own your digital library.
Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults by Caroline Maguire | Hachette Book Group
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/caroline-maguire/friendship-skills-for-neurodivergent-adults/9781538773086/
From a social emotional learning expert: a book providing simple, science-based, practical advice including scripts, tips and strategies to help Neurodivergent adults who have ADHD, autism or anxiety find the belonging and support of lifelong friendships they seek.
ZINEDROP - A community directory for independent zines. Submit your publications, discover new work.
https://zinedrop.com/
Love zines? You’re in the right place!
The new Metroid Prime art book offers insights into Nintendo’s process | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/games/803399/metroid-prime-visual-retrospective-art-book-review
Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective is a fabulous resource for learning more than I ever thought I’d be privy to about Nintendo and Retro Studios’ ambitious first-person adventure series. The 210-page hardcover book launches on October 28th, weeks before the series makes its long-awaited return with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Switch and Switch 2. It’s the perfect $50 gift for someone who’s pored over video essays about the trilogy’s design, and who’s always wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the games were made
Choose Your Own Adventure The Digital Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/09/choose-your-own-adventure/
HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models: Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
https://github.com/HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
Rush is a Band Blog: Neil Peart's Silver Surfers book now available
https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2024/11/19/6189/Neil-Pearts-Silver-Surfers-book-now-available
Neil Peart's final book - a coffee table book highlighting his extensive "Silver Surfers" car collection - officially releases today
Make it Yourself
https://makeityourself.org/
Make it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.
The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects
https://www.jesperjuul.net/c64/history/
My last word on DRM | Studio Tendra
http://studiotendra.com/2014/01/27/my-last-word-on-drm/
It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.
My last word on DRM | Studio Tendra
http://studiotendra.com/2014/01/27/my-last-word-on-drm
It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.
Smooth CoffeeScript
http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/SmoothCoffeeScript.html
An introduction to CoffeeScript programming with
an emphasis on clarity, abstraction and verification
<i>OpenStack Operations Guide</i>: One Week, One Book - The Official Rackspace Blog
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openstack-operations-guide-one-week-one-book/
A book in a week? Yes, a book in a week. It can be done! It’s called a book sprint, and it’s intense. As the documentation coordinator for OpenStack, I knew we’d find the right book to write with this technique. In February, it all came together thanks to generous funding from the OpenStack Foundation for $10,000 to fly the team into our Austin Rackspace location.
OpenStack Operations Guide: One Week, One Book - The Official Rackspace Blog
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openstack-operations-guide-one-week-one-book
A book in a week? Yes, a book in a week. It can be done! It’s called a book sprint, and it’s intense. As the documentation coordinator for OpenStack, I knew we’d find the right book to write with this technique. In February, it all came together thanks to generous funding from the OpenStack Foundation for $10,000 to fly the team into our Austin Rackspace location.
Technical books online
http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm
I've found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the "vacuum tube age" of electronics here.
How we built a DIY book scanner with speeds of 150 pages per minute | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/diy-book-scanning-is-easier-than-you-think/
How we built a DIY book scanner with speeds of 150 pages per minute | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/diy-book-scanning-is-easier-than-you-think
Existence: David Brin: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
http://t.co/kNGG9vOk
@lmorchard: finished Existence by David Brin http://t.co/kNGG9vOk
t.co
http://t.co/rLYulWm8
@lmorchard: how DOES the computed result output anyway? http://t.co/rLYulWm8
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas: John Scalzi: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
http://t.co/dwag4s1K
@lmorchard: finished Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi http://t.co/dwag4s1K
John Resig - Secret Omens: Book Update
http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens/
To the point of Jeff’s post, I would absolutely not write a technical book again. It’s a tedious process and unless you LOVE writing and are really good at it (like Nicholas Zakas or Dave Flanagan) then I suggest that you stick with the medium that is truly successful: Writing long-form articles/blog posts and possibly spinning them off into purchasable ebooks. (As an example, I’d point to Juriy Zaytsev and Peter-Paul Koch both of whom could get any JavaScript position in the world purely based upon the quality of their articles and sites, without ever having written a book.)
John Resig - Secret Omens: Book Update
http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens
To the point of Jeff’s post, I would absolutely not write a technical book again. It’s a tedious process and unless you LOVE writing and are really good at it (like Nicholas Zakas or Dave Flanagan) then I suggest that you stick with the medium that is truly successful: Writing long-form articles/blog posts and possibly spinning them off into purchasable ebooks. (As an example, I’d point to Juriy Zaytsev and Peter-Paul Koch both of whom could get any JavaScript position in the world purely based upon the quality of their articles and sites, without ever having written a book.)
Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books? : NPR
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155360197/will-your-children-inherit-your-e-books
What happens to our books when we die? Many books disappear before we do, of course; they fall apart, or we put them out on the stoop for scavengers. A book like this one, however — a text that is still read and reprinted, that has played a notable role in the 20th-century imagination, and then a copy of the text that played an especially interesting role — is likely to be passed down carefully as long as we can preserve and recognize it. Like the Bibles some families use to record their histories, it traces a chain of readers through time.
Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/04/the-next-time-someone-says-the-internet-ruined-literature-show-them-this-chart/255572/
All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it's actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.
Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/04/the-next-time-someone-says-the-internet-ruined-literature-show-them-this-chart/255572
All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it's actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.
Spoilers - Charlie's Diary
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/spoilers.html
However, below the cut, I'm going to put some bullet points for those of you who've read "Rule 34", just to draw your attention to some aspects of the novel that you might otherwise have skidded past.
Albatros, An Ingenious Automatic Bookmark
http://laughingsquid.com/albatros-an-ingenious-automatic-bookmark/
Albatros is an incredibly clever adhesive bookmark that automatically marks the page as a reader progresses through a book (video). Albatros was created by French designer Oscar Lhermitte. He’s raising funds for the project on IndiGoGo.
Albatros, An Ingenious Automatic Bookmark
http://laughingsquid.com/albatros-an-ingenious-automatic-bookmark
Albatros is an incredibly clever adhesive bookmark that automatically marks the page as a reader progresses through a book (video). Albatros was created by French designer Oscar Lhermitte. He’s raising funds for the project on IndiGoGo.
Infovore » A Year of Links
http://infovore.org/archives/2012/02/26/a-year-of-links/
I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year. Given I first used Delicious in 2004, that makes for eight books to date.
Infovore » A Year of Links
http://infovore.org/archives/2012/02/26/a-year-of-links
I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year. Given I first used Delicious in 2004, that makes for eight books to date.
OccupyYourBrain - Bloomberg the Book Burner - Bloomberg the Book Burner
http://occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com/post/13276162941/bloomberg-the-book-burner
It was a sorry sight. Only 1,273 books - a third of the stock - were returned to them, they said, and around a third of those were damaged beyond repair. Only about 800 are still usable. About 2,900 books are still unaccounted for.”
Awesome graphic novels that even non-comics readers will love as gifts
http://io9.com/5859819/awesome-graphic-novels-that-even-non+comics-readers-will-love-as-gifts
Twitter / Barbara Tozier: Atlantis has always been a ...
http://twitter.com/logista/status/132471526535598080
@logista: Atlantis has always been at war with Lemuria. Mu is just a red herring.
Book: A Futurist's Manifesto
http://book.pressbooks.com/front-matter/introduction
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub 2011-10 | Up Front
http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-10/up-front
Oh, I am so so tempted to commit to this for "Tinkering with Activity Streams", even though it's already over a day into November
"PragProWriMo is all about helping you write that technical book you’d really like to write but for some reason haven’t been able to get started.
We’ll provide supporting materials and encouragement and all you have to do is to write 60 pages toward that book during the month of November."
The Invisibles by Charles de Lint | Fantasy Magazine
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/the-invisibles
what’s inside
http://fuckyeahdementia.com/post/11624847767
Aloha From Hell: Sandman Slim goes back to Hell and kicks more ass
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/18/aloha-from-hell-sand.html
Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: a chapbook in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/14/great-big-beautiful-tomorrow-a-chapbook-in-pm-presss-outspoken-authors-series.html
An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
http://www.sfsignal.com/interactive/npr100.htm
Kind of awesome
Old Computer Book Covers
http://www.retrothing.com/2011/10/old-computer-book-covers.html
The Bytes Brothers
http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=1171
Sort of a cross between Encyclopedia Brown and Micro Adventure, each volume in this series contains several short mysteries. The user must read carefully and run very simple BASIC computer programs in order to guess the solutions.
Micro Adventure
http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=1163
These linear novels are occasionally interrupted by simple BASIC computer programs designed to be typed in and played. The idea is to simulate key moments in the story, though the programs are generally of the extremely simplistic "type in a word or number and hit ENTER" variety. The series was followed by the Magic Micro Adventure books for younger readers.
iReadFast - Home page
http://gengis.110mb.com/en/index.php
iReadfast is a speed reading program which permits reading and comprehending any electronic text at a speed much faster than normal.
Look! Store Your Books in the Rafters | Apartment Therapy Los Angeles
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-store-your-books-in-the-rafters-039700
We were charmed to the core over this ingenious book storage idea. Yes, these are just planks of painted plywood nailed to the supports for the loft above. They create perfect cubby spaces to store books, baskets and even small lights. Since we're in California, it would probably be a good idea to secure everything in place so it doesn't shake right off.
Book Saver
http://www.ionaudio.com/booksaver
Book Saver has two cameras that take separate images in rapid succession of each page within an open book. You can scan 200 pages in less than 15 minutes! Book Saver’s cradle, where the book is placed during the scanning process, is also angled as to not require you to hold pages down to get a flat, even surface. While similar devices require up to seven seconds per one page, Book Saver takes only one second per two pages!
Roo'd by Joshua Klein - Free eBook
http://manybooks.net/titles/kleinjother07rood.html
"Fed was 18 when Tony got roo'd. He'd been prepping for early college admission with late-night com-classes, goggled in and finger-cramped over nasty circa-2009 C++ code examples while longing to toss it in for time to scan some flashy Java virii. Tony had been gone from his life for at least a couple years, five years his senior and a failure, as far as their folks saw it. Bailing out of a prestigious single-course curriculum at MIT, the rumor was that he'd crashed and burned on Pakistani kraft; carefully engineered cold cells delivering a prolonged payload of top-flight methamphetamines directly to the spongy flanges of his right hemisphere."
List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
"I'm trying to amass a list of programming books with opensource licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general. Hoping you guys could help"
Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook
http://michaelshannon.us/makeabook/index.html
"Your very own Moleskine-like-notebook/journal/sketchbook. The one we'll be making is 3.5 x 5.5 x .5 inches. I use this size because it fits nicely into my back or front pants pocket. Strangely enough it is also the same size as the Moleskine notebook."
Index of /commodore/commodore
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/commodore
Introduction to Information Retrieval
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html
"The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart. "
cyoa
http://samizdat.cc/cyoa
"many choices
At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other"
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?pagewanted=all
"The Red Book is not an easy journey — it wasn’t for Jung, it wasn’t for his family, nor for Shamdasani, and neither will it be for readers. The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an antediluvian and mystical reality. The text is dense, often poetic, always strange. The art is arresting and also strange. Even today, its publication feels risky, like an exposure. But then again, it is possible Jung intended it as such. In 1959, after having left the book more or less untouched for 30 or so years, he penned a brief epilogue, acknowledging the central dilemma in considering the book’s fate. “To the superficial observer,” he wrote, “it will appear like madness.” Yet the very fact he wrote an epilogue seems to indicate that he trusted his words would someday find the right audience."
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 1 (of 81)
http://www.tor.com/index.php?id=35734&option=com_content&view=blog
Writing a Technical Book
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/technical-writing.shtml#the-contract
"Based on the amount of time we put into the book this works out at something slightly below slave labour rates. Never write a technical book for the money. No really. Spend your evenings in McDonalds if you need extra cash."
Greasemonkey Hacks/Credits - WikiContent
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks/Credits
Reads like a Who's Who of my early 2000's RSS reading list. Oh, and I'm in there. "Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist who works in the Detroit area. He's engaged to a very patient and understanding science genius girl, and they both live with two spotted Ocicats and two dwarf bunnies. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his web site named 0xDECAFBAD"
About Us (Open Library)
http://openlibrary.org/about
kewlchops: A new leaf.
http://george08.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-leaf.html
"I'm very excited about my first day at work tomorrow in my new job at the Internet Archive, here in San Francisco, in the beautiful Presidio. I'll be heading up the Open Library project."
brutal_honesty: Amazon removed its customer-based report
http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html
"Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code"."
icoeye’s blog » Blog Archive » BOOKS HELP TO CREATE ICONS
http://www.icoeye.com/blog?p=44
"You may use a template to create your own dust-jackets. Just download it, adjust, print it out, cut out:"
Titles List (Library of Congress Online Catalog) - Session timeout in 4:36
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BROWSE=1&CNT=25&HC=3&PID=3qelAxGyE_qFqR6j0-5YZFGouFG1&SID=1&Search_Arg=Orchard,+Leslie+M.+(Leslie+Michael),+1975-&Search_Code=NAME_
Hey, look, I'm in the LIbrary of Congress! "Displaying 1 through 3 of 3."
Natural Harvest - A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes by Fotie Photenhauer (Book) in Cooking
http://www.lulu.com/content/4956212
"Once you overcome any initial hesitation, you will be surprised to learn how wonderful semen is in the kitchen. Semen is an exciting ingredient that can give every dish you make an interesting twist. If you are a passionate cook and are not afraid to experiment with new ingredients - you will love this cook book!"
The Digital Book: Paper's Last Hurrah
http://gizmodo.com/5081875/the-digital-book-papers-last-hurrah
"While Sony Readers and Amazon Kindles take to the scene, one paper lover, in celebration of the Blood on Paper exhibition (something we've never heard of but have a pretty good idea what it's about), released this USB copy of The New Machiavelli. Photographed page by page, those who think its contents might resemble Google Book Search would be dreadfully wrongWe thoroughly enjoy that his hands are in each shot. That's what the fancy Kindle has been missing all this time!"
Charlie's Diary: On finishing
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/10/on_finishing.html
"I'm feeling pretty weird right now; I've just finished a novel."
Roadside Picnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
"The name of the novel derives from a metaphor proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the visit to a roadside picnic. After the picnickers depart, nervous animals venture forth from the adjacent forest and discover the picnic garbage: spilled motor oil, faded unknown flowers, a box of matches, a clockwork teddy bear, balloons, candy wrappers, etc. He concludes that humankind finds itself in a situation similar to that of the curious forest animals."
Amazon.com: Concise Guide to Dojo: Leslie M. Orchard: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Guide-Dojo-Leslie-Orchard/dp/0470452021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1222352476&s=books&sr=8-1
"Packed with useful information and lots' of insightful examples The Concise Guide to Dojo, taken from the forthcoming Professional JavaScript Frameworks book, provides experienced web developers a quick path to understanding and utilizing Dojo: a JavaScript based meta-framework for creating highly dynamic, visually appealing web sites. Logically organized, this guide quickly introduces the reader to Dojo and then quickly moves on to cover topics ranging from Manipulating DOM object, Event Handling, Utilizing AJAX, and working with additional Dojo add-on such as Dijit and DojoX."
5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/09/14/five-reasons-why-you-should-not-write-a-book
Publishers should all have a /covers directory - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/01/publishers-should-al.html
"Here's a lazyweb idea for publishers: I often blog books here and when I do, I like to put up a picture of the cover. ... So here's the idea: publishers should create default directories called "covers" at their server-root (e.g., tor.com/covers, harpercollins.co.uk/covers, etc) filled with high-rez PNGs or JPGs (or both) named after the book's ISBN -- for Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book, it would be http://harpercollins.co.uk/0060530928.png. Tweak your robots.txt file to make sure the search-engines all crawl these directories, so when you search on images.google.com or images.yahoo.com for an ISBN, the publisher's high-rez would be right there at the top."
Tinderbox: The Tinderbox Way
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TinderboxWay/index.html
"Tinderbox is a tool for notes, a personal content assistant. The Tinderbox Way takes a close look at Tinderbox and its underlying ideas, exploring not just the program's mechanics but also its design and its spirit. "
Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax, PHP: New on Wrox First Wikis
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2008/07/new-on-wrox-first-wikis.html
"And on Professional JavaScript Frameworks, we've got 7 chapters out of the 39 planned. so far we're focusing on YUI (2 chapters), Dojo (3 chapters), and MooTools (2 chapters). Soon, we'll start adding jQuery, Prototype, and ExtJS chapters soon too."
O'Reilly Author and Editor Air Concerns on Industry Pressures - Tools of Change for Publishing
http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/06/oreilly-author-and-editor-air.html
"I'll organize my comments under three categories: unpredictable time commitments, external market pressures, and staff responses. I've run these comments by Baron."
Backup Brain - So You Wanna Write a Tech Book?
http://www.backupbrain.com/2008_06_15_archive.html#a005163
"A big problem I have with these sort of blog posts, though, is that too many of them ... are written after one book, or one editor, or one publishing company. ... and you really can't extrapolate anything meaningful from a single data point."
My New Role at Wiley
http://ckwebb.com/publishing/my-new-role-at-wiley
"I will be taking a new position at Wiley, serving as the Associate Publisher of Technology for Wiley’s EMEA Group beginning July 1. I will be based in the US, but will have an office at our UK division located in Chichester to which I will travel fre
How Book Authors Can Promote Their Work with Social Media
http://ckwebb.com/publishing/how-book-authors-can-promote-their-work-with-social-media
"As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authors’ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."
What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book
"I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net: How do you keep track of your list of books?
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2008/06/how-do-you-keep.html
"this is "collection development", but from a personal point of view..."
booktwo.org | Introducing Bkkeepr
http://booktwo.org/notebook/introducing-bkkeepr
"Bkkeepr allows you to track your reading and make bookmarks via text message and the web. It uses Twitter as it’s source, generating a timeline of everyone’s reading, as well as pages for people, and pages for books."
bkkeepr | Track your reading and bookmark on the go
http://bkkeepr.com
"Track your reading and bookmark on the go"
InformIT: Interview with Aaron Hillegass Interview with Aaron Hillegass
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1220319
"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America."
Let's Tell a Story Together
http://home.grandecom.net/~maher/if-book/index.html
scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak.
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5408800.html
"Mister Bookseller is unsurprisingly about a bookseller, but what's curious is that his shop seems to have a copy of each book ever--- in fact, it has all the books ever."
Charlie's Diary: Authorial input
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/04/preemptive_alert.html
"The author is responsible for delivering the stuff between the covers of the book, and has a legal right to have their name on the cover ... and that's about where their involvement in the layout and design of their book begins and ends."
Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: Blog to Book and the $300K Advance
http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2008/04/blog-to-book-an.html
"Random House would have to pay the author a royalty rate of 63% (against net) in order for the author to earn out that $300K advance after selling 75K copies."
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing - Times Online
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3648813.ece
"Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales"
Classic 80's Home Video Games - Identification & Value Guide - Trade-N-Games
http://www.tradengames.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=&idproduct=4526
'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James
http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html
"My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles / In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs."
Build Your Own Bookcase Fort: Settle in for a Nerdy Siege
http://gizmodo.com/361161/build-your-own-bookcase-fort-settle-in-for-a-nerdy-siege
"The stairs bookcase was cool, but this is an entire igloo-like bookcase structure that you can actually use as a miniature dwelling."
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Prototype and script.aculo.us
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/cppsu
"The Prototype and script.aculo.us libraries are veritable treasure troves, smoothing over all the usual nitty-gritty differences between browsers, and making most common features a breeze to implement."
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Mastering Dojo
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rgdojo
"In Mastering Dojo, you’ll get the whole story, from basic usage to advanced idioms. Mastering Dojo starts out with a fast moving tutorial that will give you techniques that you can start using right away."
Hiive Books: The C64 Book - 1982-199x
http://www.c64goldenyears.com
"To tell the story of the best-selling home computer of the 1980's, writer and Commodore 64 fan Andrew Fisher looks back at around two hundred of the top games and how the industry has changed."
My new book! The Art & Science of JavaScript
http://arapehlivanian.com/2008/01/12/my-new-book-the-art-science-of-javascript
"UPS dropped off my new book, The Art & Science of JavaScript, today. Cool!"
AtariArchives.org - archiving vintage computer books, information, and software
http://www.atariarchives.org
"atariarchives.org makes books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available on the Web. Everything here is available with permission of the copyright holders."
RobertSabuda.com: Everything Pop-Up!
http://robertsabuda.com/everythingpopup/sw_sneak_peek.asp
"He crammed all the best characters into this massive book, and we’ll take a sneak peek at the evolution of one of the most legendary figures in the Star Wars universe"
Star Wars: Expanded Universe | Inside Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy
http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/ref/news20071015.html
"For the Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy, Reinhart took extra care to get the details just right, from obscure characters lurking inside the cantina to the subtle motion of Princess Leia revealing her face from the hood on her white robe dress."
Project Aon: Main / Home (browse)
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
The Lone Wolf solo-RPG choose your own adventure style books available for free on the web as HTML.
Amazon.com: I Am a Strange Loop: Books: Douglas Hofstadter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465030785/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added
"And whatever readers' reaction to the underlying arguments for this unique view of consciousness, they will find the model provocative and heroically humane."
Rainbows End
http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
"To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future."
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading
"When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."
Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: Wrox Blox in the editing Fastlane
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/10/wrox-blox-in-th.html
"Having worked in books most of my career, I can say, that's fast. Having worked on a magazine for 2 years, I can say, that would even be too fast for most monthly magazines to turnaround."
Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: ASP3Wiki at Wrox launches
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/10/asp3wiki-at-wro.html
"Wrox's ASP3Wiki is the complete contents of one of the best-selling web programming books ever, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, free, online, in wiki format."
Bookmobiles' final chapter? - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/02/bookmobiles_final_chapter?page=full
"A few libraries, drivers refuse to give up on relic of days gone by"
Jeff Barr’s Blog » Sentimental Value of Computer Science Books
http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1183
"I still have too many shelves crammed with books that I will in all likelihood never need again, but I can’t bear to part with them — I am sentimentally attached to many of the computer science textbooks from school and career."
Essential Electronics for Software Folk
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ctelec/index.html
"Are you a programmer or computer enthusiast? Do you feel comfortable with methods, functions, and variables? Do you wish you knew more about how the computer made it all work?"
Darwinia (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia_(novel)
"In March 1912, in the event some people called the "Miracle", Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, including its inhabitants, disappear suddenly overnight, and are replaced with a slice of an alien Earth, a land mass of roughly equal outlines and terrain
Table of Contents: BASIC Computer Games
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/index.php
Still own, and once cut my teeth on this book. "Edited by David H. Ahl, published 1978 - Also published as 101 BASIC Computer Games"
KAMN Show #28: A Fire Upon the Deep
http://www.kickassmysticninjas.com/podpress_trac/web/170/0/KAMN_028_070330.mp3
"Summer, David and Tim gather together to discuss Vernor Vinge’s Hugo Award-winning “A Fire Upon the Deep”, but first give an update on Joe Murphy."
Learning Perl the Hard Way
http://greenteapress.com/perl
"In presenting Perl features, I tried to find examples that are interesting in their own right, and that encourage the reader to explore Perl's features."
Choose Your Own Adventure Books That Never Quite Made It
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/choose-your-own.php
"Forum member Jer decided to dig deep into the collective fetid imaginations of the forum goons this week to find out just what, in their minds, should have made it to the bookshelves."
Crowdhacking: 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com | Chris Webb: Publishing, Media, and Technology
http://www.ckwebb.com/books/crowdhacking-10-simple-ways-authors-can-help-to-increase-sales-at-amazoncom
"I’m not suggesting that authors or publishers purposely try to game the Amazon.com reviewer system. However, there are several ways authors can participate to be sure that their voice is part of the conversation."
Hey del.icio.us Fans: It’s Time to Mash it UP! | Negatendo.Net
http://negatendo.net/blog/2007/01/16/hey-delicious-fans-its-time-to-mash-it-up
"So it’s official, my first book del.icio.us Mashups has been unleashed upon the world!"
Tinderbox: The Tinderbox Way
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TinderboxWay.html
"The Tinderbox Way takes a close look at Tinderbox and its underlying ideas, exploring not just the program's mechanics but also its design and its spirit."
Warren Ellis - LISTENER
http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/76550.html
"I just sold my second novel to HarperCollins in New York. It’s called LISTENER. And those of you who were reading my first LJ, back in 2003ish, saw LISTENER in its first iteration as an experimental handful of early chapters."
Rick Dakan - GEEK MAFIA -A novel of comics, games, and crime
http://rickdakan.com/geekmafia.htm
"Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe..."
if:book: small steps toward an n-dimensional reading/writing space
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/12/small_steps_toward_an_n-dimensional.html
"Ever since Gamer Theory we've been thinking about how to design social environments for texts that aren't as conveniently hyper-structured as McKenzie Wark's."
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Getting Acquainted with OPML
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opml
"Included in this Short Cut are step-by-step how-to examples with illustrations to get you started using and remixing OPML right now."
Dreaming Mind Bindery
http://dreamingmind.com/index.html
ASCII by Jason Scott: Review: Commodork
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000260.html
"his book does what my film couldn't; go front to end on one boy's story to turning into a man online. And for that, I thank him, and I think a lot of others will too."
5 excellent places to find DRM-free science fiction - cebidae: the blog of david dean
http://www.cebidae.com/2006/07/27/5-excellent-places-to-find-drm-free-science-fiction
"Whatever you do, don’t buy DRM’d ebooks. You are just ripping yourself off in the long run." Amen to that. I've bought a few ebooks with DRM, and it was all a waste.
The Writing Show ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Podcast: What Is a Networked Book?
http://writingshow.com/?p=170
"The networked book is here: the new agora/plaza/forum where author, publisher, and readers congregate to ponder, discuss, joke, enjoy, and refer."
hacking-delicious-code.zip
http://decafbad.com/2006/05/hacking-delicious-code.zip
My copy of source code for examples in Hacking del.icio.us
Supercomputer CYOA - page 74
http://www.reninet.com/newman/cyoa/supercomputer/supercomputer74.html
"Stepping over to a mirror, you see yourself as you will look for the rest of your life--with a funnel-shaped object the size of an ice-cream cone sticking out of your head." No image, but this was always my favorite ending to the book.