Archive for April, 2007
Suggested Reading
When Journalists’ Sources Have Direct Access to an Audience
(tags: blogging blogs)
Rebecca’s Ford’s next-gen promo blog at Oxford University Press—and how such approaches could help both e- and p-books
(tags: eBooks Publishing)
Free Culture in bite sized chunks
(tags: books)
How Not To Write a Technical Book
(tags: books)
News tonight for developers
What is it? Springfield? New Orcas news?
(tags: programming microsoft)
The best [...]
Mystic Microsoft
Kraig Brockschmidt emailed me today to tell me he has finally decided to self-publish his book Mystic Microsoft. Mystic Microsoft is the tale of Kraig’s spiritual transformation in the most unlikely of places - Microsoft. It’s a book he and I discussed many times since the late 90’s.
Kraig is offering printed copies through [...]
Some Suggested Reading
Blogger & Podcaster Magazine and Olive format
Lots of of looking at this, with mixed results…
(tags: ebooks)
Paint it Blackberry: the need to be connected
…the quest for new stories that once drove readers to devour mountains of books now manifests itself in the young technophiles who feel the ardent tug to constantly be in contact via their [...]
Briefly: Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Wired
The current issue of Wired includes an interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt in which he discussed the future of the online giant. My favorite bit from the interview:
Wired: How should we think about Google today?
Schmidt: Think of it first as an advertising system. Then as an end-user system — Google Apps. A third way [...]
Professional XNA Author in Wired Magazine
Last night, as I was flipping through my new issue of Wired, I was pleasantly surprised to find a short piece on Benjamin Nitschke, the author of my recently published book Professional XNA Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows (which is now shipping from Amazon.com and other fine retailers.) The piece focused on his [...]
