This Week on Twitter, the just the links edition.
Slight change this week.
If you wanted to follow my every drunken musing and read all the tweets: you’d be following me on twitter. So moving forward, I’ll skip embedding the tweets, skip most of my commentary, and give you a round up of “just” the links.
I’m sure both you and your rss feed will thank me for it.
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- This is a revelation I think many tablet owners will come to over the next year : http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-sold-my-ipad-2013-7
- How Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Has Evolved : The Artifice : http://the-artifice.com/terry-pratchett-discworld-has-evolved/
- I have my biases but I do accept others: An Alternate Viewpoint || The End of Discoverability and the Rise of Merit : http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-end-of-discoverability-and-rise-of.html
- Latin Words and Phrases Every One Should Know : http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/25/latin-words-and-phrases-every-man-should-know/
- In the age of blog-as-brand, taking a break can be anathema. But sometimes it’s what writers need: When blogs go dark : http://www.salon.com/2013/07/28/when_blogs_go_dark/
- Serious question: can we nominate Randall for a Graphic Novel Hugo? http://boingboing.net/2013/07/28/randall-munroe-finishes-time.html : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Graphic_Story
- The nook isn’t the only thing dragging down B&N : http://qz.com/109325/the-nook-isnt-the-only-thing-dragging-down-barnes-noble-so-are-its-ties-to-founder-leonard-riggio/
- There was also the time Riggio had B&N buy the B&N College Stores (from himself) for $514 Million. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aiONkuELFnNA (I recall being a bit annoyed at the time, since I was told I wouldn’t be getting a raise—no one was—while Riggio treated B&N like an ATM.)
- Because the only way to solve a dispute between businesses is to punish their mutual customers : http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/30/4570226/cbs-programming-pulled-from-time-warner-cable
- I was going to separately link to a few, but… Here, just go read all of these : http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/30/the-morning-coffee-30-july-2013/
- “It’s moved out of the NPR realm and it’s gotten into the broader culture.” “You can’t buy this kind of publicity.” : http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2051#m20937
- States, including Texas, can’t get more of the drug used in lethal injections. Is this a case of letting the free market decide policy? || Texas Is Running Out of Execution Drugs : http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/texas-running-out-execution-drugs/67902/
- 5 stages of Google Reader refugees: finally at acceptance? || one month later, the market for paid RSS tools is booming : http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/2/4582276/google-reader-rss-replacements-feedly-digg-newsblur
- Aw, isn’t that cute? watch this little guy chase a laser pointer : http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/08/spiders-will-chase-laser-pointer-dots.html
- If You Build It, They Will Come: How Cleveland Lured Young Professionals Downtown http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-how-cleveland-lured-young-professionals-downtown/6406/
- One-in-four ‘won’t pay more than 4.99’ for a book : http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/reader-survey-22-wont-pay-more-than-4-99-for-a-book/ : but for a book we want, half of all readers say price is no object. (would love to know how the sample was chosen/which demographic[s] it represents.)
- Online shopping makes traffic worse : http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/08/has-rise-online-shopping-made-traffic-worse/6409/
- I just discovered there is this hole in my bookcases and I NEED this to fill it http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/57290941750/neil-gaiman-the-1040-page-sandman-omnibus ISBNs: vol1 9781401241889, vol2 9781401243142
