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Age Labels on Children?s Books
2008-06-03 18:25:00 Big debate going on over at The Books eller about this. I think people are getting worked up over very little… there are far bigger issues for authors to be concerned about at the moment. If you don’t want the darn label on your book - tell your publisher! Simple. And move on to something ... More About: Children , Labels , Publishing
Next, The Kiddie-Tazer
2008-06-02 06:15:00 “Scan It®” says the manufacturer’s blurb, ” is an educational and creative play toy that helps children become acclimated with airport and public spaces security. “ Just what we need to train the next generation in mindless compliance and bovine docility. More About: Rants , Tazer
Whatever happened to ExtraLabs?
2008-06-01 20:52:00 ?makers of a reasonably good RSS editor, ?Feed Editor?. Promised updates for life, I installed version 5 over version 4.7. Warning bells sounded when the feed no longer validated (their cock-up) and my registration details were not accepted, giving me less than 30 days to use the darn thing. E-mails to support go unanswered, their ...
The State of China ? part one
2008-05-29 21:09:00 Michael Ledeen is not a man whose opinions I would naturally respect. A prominent voice calling for war against Iraq (?One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today?) he has been ... More About: Rants , China , State , Part , The State
Ideologically Bankrupt?
2008-05-27 16:23:00 Whatever has happend to the Project for a New American Century website? Can’t they afford to pay their bills now? More About: Rants , Bankrupt
Misinterpreting the Candidate
2008-05-24 10:39:00 It takes a bit of a reach to wilfully misunderstand some unguarded words by Hilary Clinton, but many have done so. This is what she was reported as having said: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all ... More About: Rants , Candidate
McShit
2008-05-23 08:58:00 Just one of the many ways in which McDonalds are prettifying our inner city streets. Thank you, Ronald! More About: Rants
Protect Us From Ourselves
2008-05-21 08:00:00 ?A massive government database holding details of every phone call made and letter sent by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. The Post office would open and copy every letter before delivery, and would hand over their records to the Home Office under plans put forward by ... More About: Rants
So Many Beards, So Little Time?
2008-05-20 04:56:00 It’s beard week here in Baker Street. Kicking things off, this rather splendid graphic from Jon Dyer’s equally magnificent beardy blog. What style shall I choose next? Spoilt for choice! The French Fork is tempting… so is the Mighty Insecto… pass me those scissors… More About: Time , Beards
Get A Few Batteries?
2008-05-18 11:12:00 Police constable Zeeshaan Chaudry describes in today?s News of the World how he can ?fit up? anyone he wants as a terrorist - and ten years jail time. ?Get a few batteries?, says PC Chaudry, ?put wires around them, strip the wires to make it look like he is making bombs and that. Put them in ... More About: Batteries
Reading Churchill
2008-05-15 09:00:00 ?History will be kind to me?, said Winston Churchill, ?for I intend to write it.? I?m reading two Churchill tomes at the moment - ?A History of the English-Speaking Peoples? and ?The Second World War? (abridged). They are both exceptionally absorbing, and I recommend them to anyone with any interests in these subjects. Contrary ... More About: Reading
The Truth About Litopia After Dark…
2008-05-14 09:39:00 Somebody released this damn thing onto the internet. All I can say is: I didn’t know I was being recorded. It was Sting’s fault, curse him. More About: Truth , The Truth
Louis Vuitton, Corporate Wraithlords
2008-05-13 09:00:00 Louis Vuitton are suing Danish art student Nadia Plesner for copyright infringement. Not for making the usual knock-off copies of their bags that can be seen on most high streets, but for something much more disturbing. Plesner created the artwork for fund-raising t-shirts after reading the book ?Not On Our Watch? by Don Cheadle ... More About: Corporate , Publishing , Louis
Halligan
2008-05-12 09:00:00 I never knew what a halligan was before this ? but damn, I want one now.
Beef
2008-05-11 11:14:00 Improbably large-breasted prostitute Natalie Springer complains in today?s News of the World that celebrity hairdresser Nicky Clarke treated her ?just like a piece of meat to be paid for his pleasure?. That is the whole point of prostitution, Ms. Springer, and I?m rather surprised no-one has pointed that out to you before. More About: Rants , Beef
Goodbye, Podshow
2008-04-28 09:00:00 Podshow was one of the worst things to happen to podcasting as a new medium. Divisive, ego-driven, contractually dodgy and hyped to the gills, it has been clear for some time that their style of doing things wasn?t good for the medium ? and maybe not even good for their shareholders, too. Their rebranding to ... More About: Goodbye
TFP - The Epilogue
2008-04-24 23:30:00 Very perceptive ?lessons learned? piece by Danuta Kean following the collapse of The Friday Project. While I don?t like to say ?I told you so?, (OK, I do?) it was crashingly obvious, as blogged in these pages for many months, that their business model simply was not viable. Some of the comments following ... More About: Publishing
Spread The Word About Podwatch
2008-04-18 09:00:00 Podwatch has gone straight into my ?must listen? category of podcasts. Full disclosure ? Podwatch was kind enough to give LITOPIA AFTER DARK a near-perfect 9.5 marks out of 10 in their recent review ? so I suppose I?m not totally disinterested! However, since first learning about this review site/podcast (our podcast officer, ... More About: Word , Publishing , Spread
Litopia After Dark - Caffeine Nights
2008-04-17 13:36:00 This Friday?s LITOPIA AFTER DARK is going to be another good one ? we have another special guest booked in the form of Darren E. Laws, who?s done what many authors have fantasized about, and set up his own publishing company, Caffeine Nights Publishing . ?Caffeine Nights Publishing wants to be at the forefront of ... More About: Dark
Anon Strikes Again!
2008-04-12 17:18:00 And out of the blue, they came… to Tottenham Court Rd, London, this afternoon, and probably most other places worldwide where the Xenu-philes are located. Impressive demo. More About: Anon
Modern Publishing Paradox
2008-04-10 14:23:00 Thinking about a book proposal I?m helping to final-polish? Publishers increasingly want authors with built in platforms, but authors with built-in platforms need publishers less and less? More About: Publishing , Modern , Paradox
Cultured Meat
2008-04-05 10:59:00 Here’s are interesting idea that I’ve been predicting for decades. I don’t think cultured meat is for me - I’ve done pretty well all my life without it - but it could well be a saner and kinder use of our food resources. Be interesting to see if the epidemiology shows any health advantages over ... More About: Meat
Litopia After Dark - Backstage
2008-04-04 13:26:00 As an experiment, we?ve started to stream the LITOPIA AFTER DARK pre-show planning sessions live on UStream every Friday. The first one was streamed by mistake, then we realized we?d got people watching? so we?re going to continue. You can access it on our UStream page here, from (approximately) the following times: 12:30pm London 7:30am New ... More About: Publishing , Dark , Backstage
You May Mock, But When They Come For You, Who?ll Be Laughing Then?
2008-03-28 00:17:00 “Since trying Michael Menkin’s Helmet, I have not been bothered by alien mind control. Now my thoughts are my own. I have achieved meaningful work and am contributing to society.” $35, and cheap at the price. More About: Mock , Laughing
Kiva plug again
2008-03-27 06:37:00 I’m getting an unreasonable amount of pleasure from Kiva , previously mentioned. For less than the price of a cheap meal, you can positively and directly affect someone’s life in the third world. In the current Western economic climate, with obscenely-rewarded bankers demonstrating that their spectacular incompetence is rivaled only by their rapacious greed, it is quite ... More About: Plug
The Future of Agenting
2008-03-25 08:00:00 If you’ve been following the trade press, you’ll know that I’ve had a few thoughts on this subject recently. Now comes news, via The Guardian, that the reformed agency PFD is to offer a POD (print-on-demand) publishing programme, aiming to make their clients’ forgotten books available once more. Although this is likely to produce next ... More About: Future , Publishing , The Future
The Kindle - Part? er, something or other?
2008-03-24 08:16:00 Trying not to repetitively mention the e-book / the Kindle / digital stuff every week on Litopia After Dark… it can get awfully tedious, and people soon run out of interesting things to say. Here’s a note from Silicon Alley Insider about the continuing, and to my mind, rather monotonous line from Amazon about their ... More About: Publishing , Part
Kill This Bot Now
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 11:16:00 After a few seconds of watching this nightmarish new bot, you just know it’s going to be used for ineffably evil purposes… just look who funded it… I don’t relish coming up against this bastard when it’s fully tricked out with all its hardware… More About: Rants , Kill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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