J.D. Lasica's Mashed Prepub Book
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Mashed Demo
Mashed Demo
07/24/2004 11:27 AMAmazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
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Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
06/12/2004 12:32 PMBook Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute
03/19/2005 02:43 AMIn MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily
believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band
together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however
radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
02/13/2004 05:52 AMOne of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales
mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell
became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq
started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out -
and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book
publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized
that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site,
it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's
pissing off retailers, who don't
want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers
say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to
the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it
becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's
also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer
experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online
sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy
am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
07/13/2004 03:49 PMThis
NY
Times piece compares Amazon.com with Napster. Huh?
The odd logic is that used books sold online are cutting into sales of
new books, which may or may not be true. But the Napster comparison is
ludicrous for some obvious reasons, including the fact that an actual
book is not a digitized song, and that if I'm holding a specific book
you are not holding the same copy.
The Times piece is about the "doctrine of first sale," which basically
says that once a work is sold, it's gone from the creator's control.
The purchaser of the item can resell it, give it away or throw it in
the garbage, if that's what he wants to do.
Copyright holders have never liked this very much, and I can
sympathize. Visual artists who see escalating prices for works they
sold at bargain when they were starting out tend to really not like
this situation. But the doctrine of first sale is vastly better than
the alternative.
The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book
changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright
industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment
industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions
technologies.
The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist.
And let's please not equate selling a used book with copyright
infringement.
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
11/18/2002 09:56 AMA Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
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New book from HST.
New book from HST.
10/28/2003 11:08 PMOk, so I finally got around to reading the new HST book, Kingdom of
Fear ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713997141/ ) I
found...
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
02/08/2003 09:24 AMYou Do Know that You Don't Always Have to Buy the Book, Right?
As a book author, and also an O'Reilly author, I probably shouldn't
post this. Oh well. Yesterday I needed a quick little php code
snippet to display a calendar. While I could have done this by
searching phpclasses, google, any number of books I already have,
ripping it out of another application (I've done it before), I decided
instead to do it by NOT BUYING the book. In specific I wanted to see
that if a book had the source code online, could I use it without the
book. I decided to use the O'Reilly PHP Cookbook as my test case. So
I found its home page. Then I downloaded and unzipped the code.
(Note that I did NOT look at the table of contents). Then I went into
an editor which can search across directories and told it to look for
"calendar") and I got this (source). Here is a working version.
Side Note: An interesting thing to me is that in the default version
included in the book, the navigation arrows DON'T work. I had to add
the if empty tests at the top to make the code work. Otherwise the
code just generates the same calendar regardless of clicking on the
arrows.
So the bottom line here was I spent about 5 minutes to find pretty
much exactly the routine I was looking for and then fix it so it
worked. That's probably just about what I would have spent with
Google or another site. And I didn't even buy the book. That's not
to say that I'm opposed to buying books. Or that I think you
shouldn't. It is more just food for thought than anything else.
The Book of SAX
The Book of SAX
06/15/2002 03:23 AMThe Book of SAX published by No Starch Press.
My Book as a PDF
My Book as a PDF
12/05/2003 12:36 PMThe Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition, is now available as
a downloadable electronic book (in PDF): We've launched our new Web
site for the second edition of our book (co-written by Adam Engst and
myself), and we now also have available an electronic edition, which
can be purchased and downloaded worldwide from our Web site. The
second edition covers all the issues associated with buying,
configuring, and running Wi-Fi networks at home and in small offices,
thoroughly revised for 802.11g and WPA, with new chapters on cellular
data, Bluetooth, wireless ISP software, and many other wireless
topics....
New Book -
New Book -
10/28/2003 11:06 PMThe man behind the book
The man behind the book
06/22/2005 02:04 AMWhat drove an accomplished New York editor to write a salacious new
Hillary Clinton bio that has critics calling him a smear artist?
eZ publish book out now!
eZ publish book out now!
07/27/2004 07:34 PM
Submission by Damian Carvill
Learning eZ publish 3 : Building Content Management Solutions
Packt Publishing are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the first book written on eZ publish: "Learning eZ publish 3 :
Building Content Management Solutions".
This book takes you through the process of designing and building
content-rich web sites and applications using eZ publish. Famed for
its power and flexibility, eZ publish can be daunting on first
approach. Moreover, it has advanced features that reward the
investment in learning. This book exists to ease experienced PHP
developers into thinking and developing the eZ publish way. With
hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers
working with eZ publish, and technical approval from eZ systems
(creators of eZ publish) this book is a distillation of the authors’
expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.
More details on Learning eZ publish 3 : Building Content Management
Solutions
Address book
Address book
03/13/2003 05:02 PMOK, LazyWeb, I need an address book. The Address Book.app that comes
with Mac OS X is nice for keeping about 10 addresses. We have 100.
(224 words)
A Book, A Tutorial
A Book, A Tutorial
03/13/2003 10:21 AMFrom Ben Hammersley: Weblog Hacks "Part of the Hacks series, the book
will consist of at least 100 cool tricks,...
Book Review
Book Review
03/13/2003 10:16 AMI've been ill for two weeks now, So I haven't been able to do anything
in my spare time besides...
"Little Black Book"
"Little Black Book"
08/06/2004 07:55 AMWhy has Brittany Murphy traded in a perfectly respectable, promising
career to appear in dopey movies like this?
New Don Norman book
New Don Norman book
02/10/2004 02:47 AMChristmas cheer. Don Norman has a new book - Norman, D. A.
(2004). Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. New
York: Basic Books. Excerpts at
www.jnd.org and he also pointed to this
site:
http://www.ok-cancel.com about
usability/interface design. Would that everybody read it!
This all came from a discussion about human factors: The human
factor *is* the problem in most disasters, but it is the human
managers, policy-setters and designers, not the human users, who are
at fault. Go forth and sin no more! and have great holidays!
[EDventure]
Coolio! Esther gets a real blog going (on blogware!) and Don
Norman (my hero) puts out a new book.
Double blessings - a sort of post-Chinese New Year gift.
A New Book Review
A New Book Review
08/27/2004 01:28 PMIn
this
review of
We the Media, Chris Schroeder, vice president
for strategy at the Washington Post Company and former CEO of
WashingtonPost.com, has some
amazingly flattering words. I blush...
The Code Book
The Code Book
08/22/2004 03:55 PM
Here's something embarrassing to admit: I picked up this book
from the "New Nonfiction" shelf of my public library.
I read it cover-to-cover in two days, just enthralled with both the
subject matter and Simon
Singh's incredible ability to explain it.
Then, finished and satisfied, I leaned back and read the book
jacket cover, not ready to let go of such a great work just yet. To
my horror, I find out that I had read the young adult version of
the book.
Yep, I apparently read the
watered-down version for teenagers ("12- to 16-year-olds,"
actually). And I loved it. How humilitating. They should mention
that little fact in bigger type.
(The book cover above, incidentally, is the adult version. The you
adult version has a mostly black cover. According to Singh's Web
site, the young adult version:
...has been re-written slightly, with the more complicated
concepts removed, including the section on quantum cryptography. Other
sections, more pivotal to the history and development of code making
and breaking can still be found in this book.
I suck.)
Regardless, this is a great, great book. If you're interesting in
cryptography, but have never really moved past the "wow, that's cool"
stage, this is a great place to start. Singh does a masterful job of
explaining how it all works, from simple substitution ciphers to
public key cryptography to how the Navajo code talkers helped with the
war in the Pacific.
In an extended section in the middle of the book, Singh covers the
Enigma
encryption machine of World War II, and actually manages to
explain clearly and easily what it did, how it worked, and how the
Polish and the Britsh broke the code. I was glued to the pages and
I'm looking now for another book just about Enigma — that's how
much he whet my appetite.
Singh explains concepts then builds on them to explain more
complicated ciphers and code. Each time he explained a method of
encoding something, I was thinking, "Well, there's no way anyone can
break that..." Then, to my amazement, he explains that it
was broken, and how it was broken. (I would make a crappy
cryptopgraher, because their minds just work differently that everyone
else's...)
When I say "great book," I guess I have to qualify it by saying
that the young adult version was great. I can only assume that the
adult version is just as good because Singh has a fantastic way of
explaining enourmously abstract concepts. It's a rare gift, and he's
nailed it.
At the end of this book, Singh presented ten ciphers of increasing
complexity. He does not provide the answers anywhere in the book, and
instead leaves them as a challenge to his readers. Apparently, four
guys cracked them all and published the results. Singh
also details the solutions here.
If you read this book (or read it based on this review) and liked
it, try "Cr
ypto" from Stephen Levy. It's very much of the same caliber, and
deal specifically with the RSA algorithm and the fight to allow it to
be used by the common man.
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New: QXP Images Book 1.0
New: QXP Images Book 1.0
01/05/2005 02:00 PMQXP Images Book creates image catalog files using QuarkXPress.
"book.kylos.pl"
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02/05/2005 09:45 PMThe magical book
The magical book
01/02/2004 11:05 PM
This magical book: beautiful (Flash) animated examples of 19th and
early 20th century movable children's books from the Toronto Public
Library's
Osborne
Collection of Early Children's Books.
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By the Book Leadership
By the Book Leadership
08/16/2004 06:50 AMSix leaders recommend the nonbusiness books that influenced them most.
Less bl0g, more book
Less bl0g, more book
01/06/2003 01:22 AMAs of today, I'm spending more time on my book and less time on almost
everything else--including my blog. I've set an agressive schedule for
completing it and need to spend many hours each day on it from now
until...
Book Party
Book Party
01/23/2004 02:23 PMNYPL salutes CBZ's WDOAS this PM.
How to Be Creative -- the book
How to Be Creative -- the book
12/28/2004 05:28 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Back in August, I
bl
ogged about Hugh Macleod's "How to Be Creative" project. Hugh
draws cartoons on the backs of business cards and works in
advertising; his How to Be Creative is a meditation on creativity,
individualism and commercialism, and it's full of pithy, clear,
no-nonsense advice.\
Now Hugh has expanded the piece into a short book, which is online in
its entirety. He's found an agent and the agent is shopping the book
-- I'd certainly buy a copy!
Chaos can be a positive thing. Chaos is inherently part of the
creative act. To embrace creativity means you must also embrace chaos.
Things don't happen when everything is neat and "just so". Creativity
is all about distruption. The people who tell you that creativity is
pain-free are liars. The people who tell you they've got a plan are
liars. There is no plan. There's just you, God and the need to invent.
And this uncertain world is what most of us now find ourselves
entering, willingly or otherwise.
Creativity equals chaos. Chaos equals creativity. Embrace it or die.
I've already done so. I know all about it. It almost cost me my liver
but like I said, education is expensive.
The Creative Age is upon us. The Chaotic Age is upon us. We are
scared. Damn right, we should be scared. But out of the terror comes
the amazing opportunities for us to expand both on the material and
spiritual level. The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less
choice we have to be anything other than ourselves, the less choice we
have besides doing what is meaningful to us. And finding ourselves,
doing what matters, becoming the person we were born to be, this is
what God put on this earth to do.
We live in amazing and interesting times. If we're lucky, while on
this earth we can do a damn good job proving i
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
12/19/2003 11:25 AM
We review "Practical mod_perl" aimed at both
Apache server administrators and application developers.
Aluminum Book
Aluminum Book
09/20/2004 01:04 AMTechTree Sep 20 2004 5:46AM GMT
The Not-So-Good Book
The Not-So-Good Book
12/02/2003 01:59 AMGod has a good case for a libel suit based on the Bible, according to
ventriloquist and long-time Tigger voice Paul Winchell: "The Old
Testament maligns the meaning of God and deprives us of a loving
image. There is no doubt in my mind that Scripture defames the essence
of God." (11-29)
[foo] Tim on book sales
[foo] Tim on book sales
09/11/2004 02:39 PMTim O'Reilly is giving a talk on what book sales tell us about the
industry. He says that .Net O'Reilly books have sea creatures on the
cover because Microsoft would like to cover most of the earth's
surface. Java titles are trending down (in terms of market share), but
C# and PHP are on the upswing. C and C++ sales are steady. Oracle is
down. MySQL is up. Reference books don't do nearly as well as tips 'n'
tricks because reference works so well on the Web. In any particular
thematic area (e.g., programming books), a few books do very...
Online! The Book
Online! The Book
12/03/2003 01:25 PMBrief lives, big book
Brief lives, big book
09/23/2004 04:48 AM
The Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography is published today, in print and online: a
biographical record of everyone who's ever been anyone in British
history (50,000 individuals) and an astonishing feat of scholarly
collaboration (10,000 contributors from all over the world). Access
to the full database is fearfully expensive, but the official site
gives you a good selection of
sample entries, with
a new one added every day; and a feature in today's
Times gives
you
som
e more, beginning with Mary Toft, the woman who gave birth to
rabbits.
Making Book
Making Book
06/24/2005 03:37 PM
The Best Software Writing I — a book of
essays compiled by and
with introductions by Joel Spolsky — is out, and includes a
piece
by yours truly.
Book of hope
Book of hope
08/17/2004 09:21 AMPaul Loeb may be coming to your town soon to publicize his anthology,
The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a book on political hope that
includes pieces by Nelson Mandela, Tony Kushner, Cornel West, Vaclav
Havel, Alice Walker and other moral and literary legends. JOHO
Challenge: Show up and see if you can depress him....
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