TheWayoftheWeb

While the chaps over at Friendfeed might be proposing we augment RSS with Simple Update Protocol, there’s  a slightly more basic (from my side) bit of syndicated going on, which I’m calling ‘SRSBS’ (Someone Really Simple Being Syndicated).
What this means is that I’m now one of the bloggers being syndicated onto the Socially Minded group [...]

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When I was a child and teenager, I was as obsessive about music as it was possible to be. I combined aspirations of becoming a professional musician and DJ, with the compulsive behaviour of a serial librarian and collector. So you can imagine how many music magazines (NME, Melody Maker, Metal Hammer, Kerrang, Record Collector, [...]

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I’ve been a fan of the ‘cartoons on the back of business cards’ work of Hugh MacLeod for a long time, often using the examples of his work and blog to try and inspire other people.
He was soon joined at some unspecified point by David Armano’s ‘visual thinking’ on Logic + Emotion, whose genius has [...]

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So Amazon has bought Shelfari. The interesting thing for me isn’t Shelfari’s innovative User Interface, but the business strategy that led to the purchase by Amazon. It’s a strategy that has also included buying AbeBooks, a marketplace for used and rare books. Which happens to own 40% of Shelfari competitor LibraryThing! Promotion of the Kindle [...]

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