Month: June 2009

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	9:41pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. #reading In Cold Type by Leonard Shatzkin. Great primer on publishing, even 20 years later. Goodnight all.
	11:33am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Financial Times: Google’s railroading cartel
	11:36am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Great primer on designing an e-book cover
	11:59am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. A bizarre obsession with “turning pages”
	12:00pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Why do -book , e-magazine and online news sites want to preserve "turning the page" as a UI characteristic? http://bit.ly/KnfUt
	12:12pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Springer to bring MyCopy to U.S., Canada
	12:15pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. MyCopy will make libraries an e-book-to-paper retail outlet. Also could be libraries stocked organically by patrons. http://bit.ly/9B7VI
	2:53pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Kindle DX the saviour for newspapers?
	3:32pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Google Book Search adds features
	3:59pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @danmhall so, you like it. and it was on time….
	4:20pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Heading out to Safeco to see #Mariners tonight. .500 by the end of the weekend!
	8:30pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @mkrigsman I’m a recent convert to Tweetdeck on iPhone. Highly recommended
	8:34pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. http://twitpic.com/7vc1v this guy at Mariners game going for the Oscar for best heckler, but he went "full tard," so don’t think he’ll win

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	9:03pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Indie Bestsellers for June 18, 2009
	10:31pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Building a Publishing Industry Statistics Resource
	10:40pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. I’m building a free publishing industry statistics resource. Suggest links? Contribute data? #books #ebooks #publishing http://bit.ly/Jl2Qi
	11:16am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Foreign Affairs magazine now on Kindle
	11:31am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. American Health Advantage, a telemarketer that uses (321) 283-3645 is an abusive telemarketer. Repeated calls to wrong #. Won’t change db.
	11:33am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Foreign Affairs, now on Kindle, should sell an archival collection for $99 or $199. 50 searchable years would be great. http://bit.ly/aLf2e
	11:39am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @jakeludington: @godsdog you are not alone on the phone calls: http://bit.ly/2kKjn Thanks, this will help if my call to HQ didn’t work.
	11:49am	admin scrobbled a song on My Ears. Led Zeppelin – Dancing Days
	11:52am	admin scrobbled a song on My Ears. Barenaked Ladies – Who Needs Sleep?
	2:51pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Simon & Schuster has a Pulse
	3:39pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Of the Governator and e-books
	3:41pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Schwarzenneger and e-boooks: A complicated and politically difficult reality. http://bit.ly/5WigL #ebooks #publishing #textbooks
	4:50pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Noted: Since launching http://booksahead.com four days ago 53 of 118 uniques, inc. bots, have come from Twitter. 17% of traffic is Twitter.
	5:27pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Tor adds titles from non-Mac publishers
	5:28pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @marciamarcia thanks! let’s talk — would like to hear what you’re up to that you aren’t talking about on Twitter.

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	9:34pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Noted News & Opinion, June 16, 2009
	2:38pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @PeterSantilli: Everyone must take a look at these absolutely AMAZING set of photos of #IranElection events http://tinyurl.com/nthyt7
	3:37pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @scottros @agahran @lisawilliams tell students: Want to do journalism, don’t let not getting a job stop you. #KNCMIT |What’s a "job"?
	4:32pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. iPhone OS 3.0 out now
	4:32pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. iPhone OS 3.0 out now, appears seriously broken
	4:32pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. iPhone OS 3.0 out now, upgrade odd
	5:35pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. iPhone 3.0 upgrade appears seriously broken. It wiped most apps, including iTunes and App Store. http://bit.ly/18pShD
	6:08pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @raminf: Lost most apps in 3.0 upgrade. No big loss. Restoring those I use regularly. wife lost notes that didn’t sync. | same as me
	6:58pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Noted News & Opinion, June 17, 2009
	6:59pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Thoughts on the day’s news in publishing, books, ebooks and the verdict on Strunk and White. http://bit.ly/mszk5 #books #ebooks #publishing

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	3:39pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. McGraw-Hill launches digital education research center
	3:45pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Interesting the McGraw-Hill textbook div. put its research center just a few miles from Microsoft HQ. http://bit.ly/3VXWj
	4:06pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Businessweek’s More-for-your-money strategy
	4:07pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. A bit of advice for Businessweek. "Special access" doesn’t feel like special treatment, but these ideas would: http://bit.ly/LP3Zl
	8:38pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Shortcovers making moves, hiring for clout

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	1:22pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Interesting option: With Open Pay we’ll get paid whenever our work-stream influences each other. http://bit.ly/tp0vh
	1:49pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. $80 million in legal fees paid for GM bankruptcy to date. http://bit.ly/Stsag
	3:15pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Something new. BooksAhead.com, where I will shortly start rolling out parts of my book. News comment there now. http://booksahead.com/
	3:27pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. #ebooks Don’t screw your readers by turning off read-aloud rights. http://bit.ly/1728Rk
	6:05pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Bezos seems to say hardware and ebook retail are completely separate, but reiterates pricing limits. http://bit.ly/1Ftjy #kindle #ebooks
	6:11pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @hardaway: Textbook rant http://ff.im/-41p4X industry needs purging, pedagogy goes beyond text. Books shld be frameworks for discussion
	7:28pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Kindle DX sold out in three days? A lot of DX sales or a very short production run, which was the case w/Kindle 1, too? http://bit.ly/DPoeg

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	6:29pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @jdlasica NYT Mag looks the same size on Kindle….. ;^>
	7:18pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. #ebook
	7:19pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. #sonyreader

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2:54pm

admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. We have been married 22 years and 3 hours, and it only gets better and better.

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2:50pm

admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. I like it when readers contact me to offer corrections. If they get rude about it, not so much fun.

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	9:28pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @steveoutingReporters as waiters. Will tips be required to survive as a journalist? http://is.gd/YyAi (from my blog)
	12:59pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Finally! Senate votes to put tobacco industry under regulation by the FDA. http://bit.ly/4cTnib
	1:07pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT (sort of) @jayrosen_nyu Ha`aretz using celebrity writers to shake up its journalism. Novel, but temporary, boost. http://bit.ly/3vgrE
	2:33pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @SocialMedia411: Facebook’s vanity URL rollout reminds me of a shotgun wedding; "Hurry up, have a ceremony & don’t ask any questions".
	5:06pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @philosophygeek Obviously, the naming team at Microsoft took a few too many hits on the past-tense of Bing. Didn’t think it through.

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	10:53pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. My thoughts on Ed Whitacre (ex-AT&T) as Chairman of General Motors. Worst choice possible. Don’t let it happen. http://bit.ly/yfAMO
	11:18pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @JohnAByrne For your consideration – My thoughts on Ed Whitacre for GM. Worst choice. Not, as BW wrote, a fresh start. http://bit.ly/yfAMO
	11:47pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @norton_fiction: I may never use dictionary.com again.RT @rww: Enamored with Words? You’ll Love Wordnik http://bit.ly/lA1zm WORDNIK rocks
	10:25am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Irony: Sitting in a GM dealership (I have a Saab) day after writing: Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T’s Ed Whitacre to run GM http://bit.ly/yfAMO
	10:32am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. CNN reporting security guard shot at Holocaust Museum in DC. Witness: "We heard a ‘boom’ and that was it."
	2:10pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Nothing like waiting for a windshield repair. In a bar called "The Friendly Duck." May be the first customer ever to pull out a laptop here.
	2:46pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @JimGleeson apparently, the bartender has heard that one….. not a Twitter convert.
	4:37pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @steveouting Re http://is.gd/Ymcu That’s silly. Micro-payments and tipping is "vibrant social activity," it’s interruptive.

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