Big profile of graphic novelists, particularly Ware, Seth, and Speigelman
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Anti-Virus Firms Fearing A Lack Of High Profile Viruses -- Pump Up Low Profile O
Anti-Virus Firms Fearing A Lack Of High Profile Viruses -- Pump Up Low Profile O03/29/2005 02:05 PM Six years after the famous "Melissa" mass mailing viruses, some
started to say that mass mailing viruses were on the decline. Of course, for the
publicity departments of anti-virus firms, that's bad news. They need
some sort of virus scare every other day or so to prop up sales. So,
wouldn't you know it, just as we're told that mass mailing viruses are
on the decline, Symantec comes out with a screaming warning about some new mass mailing virus.
Of course, when you look at the details, even they admit that it's a
"low" or "moderate" threat. However, that's never stopped the company
from ringing the fear bell to try to drum up some extra sales.
Trendwatch Graphic Arts Digital Imaging Report Examines the Market(s) for Digital Cameras and Scanners in the Graphic Communications Industry
Chris Ware on French TV03/14/2005 05:28 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
Chris Ware is one of the best cartoonists around, and a French TV
channel has produced a documentary about him. You can get a torrent to
download a 100MB file of the documentary from Kempa. Link(via Drawn!)
Seth Schoen:09/08/2004 09:49 PM Seth Schoen: "The second thing that bothered me when I
used XP was that codecs and viewers were constantly being downloaded
automatically. That process was shielding millions of people from the
intense politics surrounding the formats in which they receive and
transmit data -- from the question of their legality or illegality,
whether they are proprietary or not, what terms and restrictions
attach to them, to whom they are available and for what purposes,
whether they work well, who created them, why, and when, whether they
will continue to be available and to whom and from whom, what and
whose strategies they are a part of, with what and with whom they
interoperate, under what conditions -- all invisibly submerged and
putting the world of codecs and formats squarely under the power of
marketing."
National Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists purchases gomembers’ PSA for az*ware solution
Zooko, Seth Schoen,04/08/2005 01:03 AM Zooko, Seth Schoen, and David Weekly have some interesting thoughts about
pseudonymity. I've also cracked a LiveJournal identity, although quite
by accident. This almost makes me want to create some nyms so that I
can try to beat the system.
SEO vs. PPC: Seth is Completely Wrong!
SEO vs. PPC: Seth is Completely Wrong!07/07/2004 01:13 PM Source: search-marketing.info - As long as people who know little
about SEO continue to mislead people about it then the SEO market will
remain cloudy....
Seth Godin's new
project, ChangeThis is a
project to have interesting people write short "manifestos". Seth's
working on creating a new form of literature. It's looks like
something between a paper, a blog post and a marketing presentation
with a message. It will be interesting to see how this takes off. It
looks interesting to me. They have a blog, "Read and Pass".
I was flashed by Seth Smith08/08/2004 05:28 PM Cut Off Tail -> Four
flash cartoons by Seth Smith (note: the last one features coarse
language while the others are just plain coarse)
Seth Godin: The L Factor
Seth Godin: The L Factor02/10/2004 02:49 AM What accounts for success and failure? More often than you might
think, it's just luck. But like most things, luck can be managed.
This leads me to two thoughts:
a. a lot more blogs should be posted in chronological order, like
books. If you're trying to chronicle something, it makes a lot of
sense to start at the beginning, as long as you provide regular
readers an easy way to just read the current stuff (That's what RSS is
for, right?). No, this isn't right for gizmodo. But it makes a lot of
sense for someone, say, chronicling her experience in a 12 step
program.
b. we need Movable Type or someone to create a simple way to create
"greatest hits" pages. Not an archive, but a simple way for a new
reader to read the ten posts we want them to start with, in the order
we want them read, before they dive in.
I know it's weird to read a chronological blog. It's worse, imho,
to leave a great blog just because the last two posts don't make sense
out of context.
I think that blogs are creating a new
format that people have become used to reading. Regardless of whether
it is the most effective format, people are now accustomed to seeing
new posts on top, stuff in the sidebar, etc. Granted that many people
are reading blogs for the first time, I think that there is too much
momentum to make a dramatic shift in the way we present information on
blogs without a lot of confusion.
I think that making a "greatest hits" page easier to create makes
sense. I personally like wiki pages for that sort of thing, but I
could imagine it being built into a tool. Another thing people do is
to put a sidebar section of favorite items and permalink from
there.
Or maybe there is a way to create another view that allows you to
read a blog from the beginning. That should be that hard.
Seth Godin’s Advice to PR Industry: "Focus on P, not R"
Seth Godin’s Advice to PR Industry: "Focus on P, not R"07/27/2004 02:46 AM Interviewed by PR Machine during Global PR Blog Week 1.0, Godin Says
Use Blogging Technologies to Help Companies Make Stuff Worth Talking
About [PRWEB Jul 27, 2004]
280 Group Included in Seth Godin's 2004 Bull Market Directory
280 Group Included in Seth Godin's 2004 Bull Market Directory06/11/2004 03:25 AM The 280 Marketing and Product Management Consulting Group has been
Chosen by Bestselling Author, Seth Godin, to be Included in His New
2004 Bull Market Directory - The Directory is Available as a Free
Download on www.280group.com [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
Able Graphic Manager v2.3
Able Graphic Manager v2.310/29/2003 04:58 PM Able Graphic Manager lets you view, print and convert graphic files in
normal and batch mode. Supports over 30 formats. [Shareware $30.00
30 Days 1.84 MB]
Today there's a new header graphic. It was taken out the front
window of a moving car on Interstate 25 just past Santa Fe, in the
foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, in late afternoon during
monsoon season. You can see the day's thunderstorm forming behind the
hills.
Graphic Communication01/07/2004 05:19 PM A brief follow-up regarding the legality of the Neistats' iPod
graffiti, and some reader-contributed graphs of Monday's
Panther-vs.-Jaguar stats.
Rushkoff's new graphic novel
Rushkoff's new graphic novel05/24/2004 10:33 AM Boing Boing pal Douglas
Rushkoff's neuron-annihilating comic Club Zero-G, first serialized
in BPM magazine, has finally been compiled and expanded into a
full-length graphic novel. Published by the demented souls at
Disinformation, the book features art by Canadian cartoonist Steph
Dumais.
"The story follows Zeke, a gangly, unpopular, 19-year-old college
student - a townie who also happens to attend the elite college in his
community - who has discovered a terrific new club where he is
accepted and popular. There's only one catch: everyone at the club is
dreaming. It only exists in the shared dream consciousness of its
participants. If at all.
For there's the rub: Zeke's friends think he is simply going crazy.
His girlfriend in the club won't even acknowledge his existence in
real life.
As Zeke descends further into the Club Zero-G reality, he learns
that this shared dream space is actually a psychic field created by
four mutant children from the future - the last of their kind,
conceived by human space travelers in zero gravity and exhibiting
strange deformities and abilities. Living in a future where
independent thinking is considered a threat to "consensus," they are
hunted by the authorities, and seek the help of teens from the 21st
century who, they hope, can still alter the course of reality.
But Zeke eventually learns this is all a set-up, and he is being
used by the militaries of the present and the future as a portal into
the psychic field of the Zero-G kids, so they can be destroyed.
Unless, of course, he is just going mad." Link
Graphic Novel review
Graphic Novel review01/04/2005 08:56 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
The latest Graphic Novel Review is out, and it has an interview with
Harvey Pekar, as well as a cover by the late Will Eisner and Gary
Chaloner. Link
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The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the long tail, having been a skeptic
Wag the Tail05/14/2004 10:51 AM Wag the Tail version 0.1 released
Wagging Your Tail
Wagging Your Tail03/14/2005 06:02 PM Executive recruiter Dave Hardie on the benefits of leaving gracefully,
consumer-products experience, and balancing We versus I.
FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail
FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail06/22/2005 02:39 AM If you haven't yet heard - or used - the phrase 'the long tail,'
you're not buzzword compliant for 2005. Chris Anderson, the editor of
Wired Magazine, coined the phrase in an article that appeared last
fall in that magazine....
Tail gunning
Tail gunning01/04/2005 02:08 AM Wired editor Chris Anderson has started a good blog to follow
up on his Long Tail
essay and seed the ground for a book on the subject.
Cory Doctorow takes Anderson to task for his "middle-of-the-road"
stance on efforts to lock down intellectual property via increasingly
desperate and continuingly futile technical schemes for digital rights
management (DRM) -- schemes that tip the balance between
propertyholders and the public way too far.
Anderson is dead right in elucidating the way the Net economy
restores market value to works that are not big hits. The story of the
next few years will be one about whether that market in "long tail"
intellectual goods (I wrote about
its promise in October) thrives in the same open environment that
allowed the Net itself to evolve and prosper -- or shrivels under the
furious weight of technical and legal efforts to squeeze every last
dollar from every last little hair on the long tail. My money is on
the former, happier outcome. But it won't turn out that way without
persistent and stubborn resistance -- which we can thank Doctorow and
the EFF for ringleading -- to the "we control the horizontal, we
control the vertical" paternalism and anti-consumerism of the DRM
mafia.
(For a little example of what happens when rights holders hold too
many cards, check out the sad
saga of "Eyes on the Prize," the documentary that is the
"principal film account of the most important American social justice
movement of the 20th century," in a Stanford professor's words from
Wired News' account. "Eyes on the Prize" can't be publicly shown or
distributed because "the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to
much of the archival footage used in the documentary." You want your
audiovisual history? Pay up first!)
Assuming the Long Tail isn't clipped by DRMania, we face an
ever-expanding banquet of media goods. The BBC sounds an alarm. We are
coming
face to face with the scourge of "digital
obesity":
Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the
equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in "weight". Music, images,
e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras laptops and
PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), a Toshiba study found. It found
that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices,
making the UK "digitally fat".
Or maybe not. The term is a ludicrous oversimplification and
distortion; we keep all this stuff around precisely because we
can now -- because it doesn't fill trucks, it fills
infinitesimal chips and drives, and it's easier to keep everything
around than to worry about cleaning house. Carrying the stuff around?
No problem. Finding it? Harder. Finding time to absorb it all? There's
our rub.
Obesity is simply the wrong metaphor. Thi
s post by Rajat Paharia hits closer to the mark:
I'm finding that the "digital photo effect" is starting to make its
way into my music and video experiences as well. What's the DPE? My
ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to
consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends,
family, Flickr, etc. This has a couple of ramifications:
1. I feel behind all the time.
2. Because there is so much to consume, I don't enjoy each individual
photo as much as I did when they were physical prints. I click through
fast.
3. Because of 1 and 2, sometimes I don't even
bother.
I first noticed this phenomenon back in the late '80s, when I
switched from buying music on vinyl to CDs, and noticed how quickly I
stopped listening to an entire 50-60 minute CD if the first track or
two didn't grab me. Of course, this kind of impatience coincided with
the speeding up of my professional life and my crossing the threshold
into my 30s. Something tells me that the problems Paharia and I and
perhaps you are facing in this realm of overload may not feel so dire
to today's teenagers and twenty-somethings, for whom this thick soup
is a native muck.
I'm not liberated yet. Behindness surrounds me on all sides. But
finding stuff is getting easier. I'm slowly trying to teach myself the
methodology that Doctorow has modeled for several years now: If you
want to be able to find something in the future, don't bury it in your
files -- blog about it, put it out on the Net, where Google will never
lose it, and if for some reason you can't find it, someone else will
probably have picked it up and saved it for you.
So to hell with bookmarks, and long live the blogmark. Here's a
handful:
For years, I tuned my guitar with one of those little electronic
tuners in a plastic box; but when they were two, my kids decided that
it made a great toy and disembowelled it. Well, all that is solid
melts into Net: Today you don't need a physical object, all you need
is a Net connection and a browser. Just Google "guitar tuner" for a bunch of options;
I liked this
one for its retro look.
Erasing the tail09/26/2004 09:23 AM The NY Times Magazine article on blogs makes the same old error.
Viewing blogs through the media lens, only the left-hand of the side
of the power curve is visible. As Matthew Klam, the article's author
says: In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life
Project found that more than two million Americans have their own
blog. Most of them, nobody reads Thus, the tail of the power curve
— which is probably at least 5 million blogs long — gets
erased. In fact, the tail is where blog are having their most
important effects. That's where...
Mac Tail, iPod Dog?
Mac Tail, iPod Dog?05/21/2004 01:01 AM Is this a sign that Apple views the current Mac platform entering a
period of relative stability after six years of flux? By Matthew
Rothenberg (via MyAppleMenu)
The Long
Tail: Here's something entertaining in an odd way. This page will
pull a blog entry out of the...void.
Click "Next Item" to get another one. They come from blogs all
around the world, and are presented with no context or other
information (there is a link if you want to actually visit the site
the entry came from).
Only about half of the entries I looked at were in English. All of
them were posted in the last two minutes.
I can't figure out why this was so addictive. It's like little
snippets of communication from anywhere and everywhere.
root-tail 1.1
root-tail 1.104/12/2004 07:21 AM Allows printing of text directly to the X11 rootwindow
Big profile of graphic novelists, particularly Ware, Seth, and Speigelman
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Chris Ware is one of the best cartoonists around, and a French TV
channel has produced a documentary about him. You can get a torrent to
download a 100MB file of the documentary from Kempa. 
"The story follows Zeke, a gangly, unpopular, 19-year-old college
student - a townie who also happens to attend the elite college in his
community - who has discovered a terrific new club where he is
accepted and popular. There's only one catch: everyone at the club is
dreaming. It only exists in the shared dream consciousness of its
participants. If at all.
