Bryson shortlisted for book prize

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Bryson wins £10,000 science prize

Bryson wins £10,000 science prize 06/14/2004 04:17 PM
The American author Bill Bryson wins the prestigious Aventis Prize for popular science books for A Short History Of Nearly Everything.

Brand new book, a WThRemix prize

Brand new book, a WThRemix prize 03/11/2003 10:46 AM
One of the many prizes for the WThRemix contest is a copy of the brand new Glasshaus book The Web...

Poet's city's £60,000 book prize

Poet's city's £60,000 book prize 08/12/2004 02:46 AM
A new £60,000 prize for fiction, named after poet Dylan Thomas, is to be launched in Swansea this autumn.

The Bad Sex award shortlisted passages

The Bad Sex award shortlisted passages 12/05/2003 05:35 AM
More literary bad sex entries here .. selections from other nominees .. more»

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UK researchers shortlisted for 1m award

UK researchers shortlisted for 1m award 07/26/2004 07:30 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 26 2004 11:44AM GMT

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature 10/31/2003 06:21 PM
InternetRetailer.com Oct 31 2003 4:44PM ET

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 PM

Book 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 AM
In 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 AM
One 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 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET

Founder's prize

Founder's prize 06/17/2004 01:45 AM
USA Today Jun 17 2004 6:29AM GMT

X Prize Foreboding

X Prize Foreboding 07/10/2004 05:10 PM

Activities spurred by the X Prize, particularly the success of SpaceShipOne, are exciting but I fear a few people will be killed before the deadline at the end of this year is over.  The Wired story of the da Vinci team's left me with more concern than hope.

"Pulitzer Prize"

"Pulitzer Prize" 04/06/2005 10:02 AM

Top UK innovation prize for IBM

Top UK innovation prize for IBM 06/11/2004 06:43 AM
IBM software described as the oil of e-commerce has won the MacRobert engineering prize.

The Goldman Prize

The Goldman Prize 04/19/2004 03:09 PM
The Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to seven people. Sometimes considered the Nobel prize for the environment, it's given to people from six regions of the world, each winning $125,000. The winners include Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, and Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla from Bhopal, India, who have respectively fought two of the world's largest chemical companies for justice following chemical plant leaks in their towns (the Bhopal accident killed 20,000 people.)

InfoSpace Goes for the Prize

InfoSpace Goes for the Prize 07/02/2004 10:00 AM
Mobile phone gaming is getting more sophisticated. And big players want a piece of the action.

It's the prize patrol!!!

It's the prize patrol!!! 03/20/2003 04:24 PM
Well I was coming on here to upload my button for silly nun's new campaign and then I saw...

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book

Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book 07/13/2004 03:49 PM
This 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.

The Literary Review's Bad Sex Prize

The Literary Review's Bad Sex Prize 12/04/2003 11:53 AM
The Literary Review's Bad Sex Prize goes to Bunker 13 by Aniruddha Bahal (Faber & Faber). The winning passage, which described a woman as "endomorphically endowed," also included the sentence, "Your palms are holding her neck and thumbs are at her ears regulating the speed of her head as she swallows and then sucks up your machinery." Oh baby.

Eyes on your copyrighted prize

Eyes on your copyrighted prize 01/05/2005 11:31 AM
Don't even think about trying to find a copy of an award-winning civil rights documentary online. The copyright cops will be waiting.

Bhopal campaigners win key prize

Bhopal campaigners win key prize 04/19/2004 07:06 AM
Two Indian women win a leading environmental award for their battle for victims of 1984's Bhopal gas disaster.

Da Vinci Gambles on X Prize

Da Vinci Gambles on X Prize 08/06/2004 04:39 AM
A Canadian group hoping to win $10 million by sending a pilot 100 kilometers up gets some last-minute financial help from, of all things, an online casino. By Dan Brekke.

Spaceship One Ready to go after X-Prize

Spaceship One Ready to go after X-Prize 09/26/2004 03:34 AM

Seems Burt Rutan and Spaceship One are about ready to go after the X-prize. With the initial flight scheduled for Sept 29th we should be in for a heck of a show. God Speed and Good Luck to the Spaceship One crew.
[BBC] [Wired]

LED creator given inventors' prize

LED creator given inventors' prize 04/26/2004 10:24 AM
Boston Globe Apr 26 2004 2:03PM GMT

Second team goes for space prize

Second team goes for space prize 08/05/2004 02:12 PM
A Canadian team, the da Vinci Project, said it will challenge for the Ansari X-Prize with a flight to space in October.

SpaceShipOne to vie for the X Prize
September 29

SpaceShipOne to vie for the X Prize
September 29 07/27/2004 11:00 PM
SpaceShipOne's first flight in an attempt to claim the Ansari X Prize is set for September 29.

The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas

The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas 03/20/2003 06:38 PM
This is actually, in some aspects, a happy story. I entered my girlfriend in a contest on www.itavisen.no. And she...

Radiohead top NME prize shortlist

Radiohead top NME prize shortlist 01/27/2004 07:05 AM
Radiohead lead this year's NME music awards shortlist with five nominations, including best UK band.

NASA Follows X Prize Footsteps

NASA Follows X Prize Footsteps 03/24/2005 08:12 AM
Seeking to re-create the success of the Ansari X Prize, the space agency announces a set of competitions for cunning aerospace inventors. The first challenges: to construct a Space Age tether and a wireless power supply. By Amit Asaravala.

SpaceShipOne seeks$10M prize

SpaceShipOne seeks$10M prize 07/30/2004 01:29 AM
Content.sina.com - Wed Jul 28, 08:16 am GMT

Other News: Kyoto Prize for Kay

Other News: Kyoto Prize for Kay 06/11/2004 10:01 AM
Alan Kay is honored with the Kyoto prize for his contributions to computing.

Build your own X-Prize Rocket!

Build your own X-Prize Rocket! 05/17/2004 07:27 PM
BoingBoing reader Stefan Jones says,

Model rocket supplier Estes Industries got hammered by the failure of a line of licensed "The Phantom Menace" models. They're starting to appeal to those of us who geek out on real-life rockets again, with eight models based on entries in the X-Prize suborbital rocket competition. The variety of approaches is astonishing. The second page has a mystery model that's obviously Rutan's Spaceship One. I guess some people charge more for licensing than others . . . And -- whoo! -- they're selling a video camera rocket to replace the 8mm Cineroc movie camera that was last offered thirty years ago.

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X-prize race hots up

X-prize race hots up 07/12/2004 10:28 AM
Canadian challenge to SpaceShipOne

Six writers vie for Orange prize

Six writers vie for Orange prize 04/18/2005 12:29 AM
The shortlist of six female writers competing for the 10th Orange Prize for Fiction is announced.

X-Prize 'will be won this year'

X-Prize 'will be won this year' 05/11/2004 06:31 AM
A race to be the first private company to put a craft into space will be won in a few months.

LG Cellular Phones Win US Prize

LG Cellular Phones Win US Prize 12/14/2003 09:05 AM
Hankooki Dec 14 2003 8:52AM ET

Web Inventor Takes the Prize

Web Inventor Takes the Prize 04/16/2004 04:51 AM
The Finnish Technology Award Foundation awarded Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web, the first Millenium Technology Prize. The award, worth $1.2 million, is among the largest of its kind.

Apple Up For Double D&AD Prize

Apple Up For Double D&AD Prize 05/24/2004 08:22 PM
Known as the Oscars of the creative industry, the 42nd Design and Art Direction awards include 137 nominees selected from among almost 14,000 entries. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

Spaceship One closes in on X-Prize

Spaceship One closes in on X-Prize 05/17/2004 04:47 AM
In an impressive demonstration Spaceship One climbed on it's own power to 211,000 feet within striking distance of the altitude...
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