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February Mini Book Reviews

February Mini Book Reviews 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
Last month, Pat read about some classics: Perl, Python, PHP and MySQL.

The Return of Mini Book Reviews

The Return of Mini Book Reviews 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
Perl for work and for fun, an introduction to CVS and developing for Linux are covered in this round of mini book reviews.

Fake book reviews on Amazon

Fake book reviews on Amazon 01/25/2004 07:28 PM
Richard Monson-Haefel: "If you've been in the book writing game more than a week, then you are probably aware that some authors post fake reviews to their books and their competitors books. It's an ugly truth that is rarely spoken...

Reviews don't dampen Clinton book buzz

Reviews don't dampen Clinton book buzz 06/21/2004 03:25 PM

Reviews Don't Dampen Clinton Book Buzz
(AP)

Reviews Don't Dampen Clinton Book Buzz
(AP) 06/21/2004 03:59 PM
AP - Reviews have been discouraging and conservatives are on the attack, but booksellers still expect the best as they brace for Tuesday's release of Bill Clinton's "My Life," the year's most anticipated nonfiction book.

Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews

Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews 01/19/2004 06:13 AM
Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do) .. The full article .. 10 §Ş¨§‡

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The Washington Monthly Magazine: Quality
Political Journalism, Book Reviews and
the news you need about Washington D.C.

The Washington Monthly Magazine: Quality
Political Journalism, Book Reviews and
the news you need about Washington D.C. 07/24/2004 11:20 PM
the Washington Monthly’s front page .. Political Animal (Kevin Drum) .. Philip Longman

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New Mobile Phone Forum Featuring
Discussion Forums, Brand Reviews, FAQs,
Service Providers Reviews

New Mobile Phone Forum Featuring
Discussion Forums, Brand Reviews, FAQs,
Service Providers Reviews 12/22/2004 01:50 AM
Mobile Phone Discussion Forum. Share your views and experience at forums. Discuss all about Mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. Checkout cell phone reviews, FAQs. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
including US stores. record store
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo

RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
including US stores. record store
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo 11/11/2003 03:40 AM
RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and reviews for over 300 cities worldwide including US stores. record store directory list stores list reviews review US, UK, Japan, Canada records guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new york london tokyo

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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

Miami New Times | miaminewtimes.com |
News : Feature Myths Over Miami,Captured
on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His
demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are
now killing people. God has fled.
Avenging angels hide out in the
Everglades. And other tales from
children in Dade's homeless shelters.,By
Lynda Edwards The Alternative Miami
connection for events, event listings,
music reviews, CD reviews, and all of
the latest alternative news from the
Miami area.

Miami New Times | miaminewtimes.com |
News : Feature Myths Over Miami,Captured
on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His
demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are
now killing people. God has fled.
Avenging angels hide out in the
Everglades. And other tales from
children in Dade's homeless shelters.,By
Lynda Edwards The Alternative Miami
connection for events, event listings,
music reviews, CD reviews, and all of
the latest alternative news from the
Miami area. 11/12/2003 10:23 PM

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.

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 AM

"Reviews"

"Reviews" 11/16/2003 08:31 PM

LCD TV Reviews

LCD TV Reviews 12/17/2004 06:32 PM
LCD-tv-reviews.com has reviews, Frequently Asked Questions and open discussions for LCD tv buyers. Inform yourself before you invest your cash. [PRWEB Dec 13, 2004]

Reviews like this

Reviews like this 07/31/2004 08:29 PM
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Macworld reviews in brief

Macworld reviews in brief 12/05/2003 03:19 AM
24U Email OSAX 2.2, Cookie Muncher 1.0.6, JumpDrive Secure, KidzMail 1.1.2, MacAstronomica 2.0.2, MacResponder 1.0.2, Mystical Lighting, PodQuest 1.0.1, TimeCache 5.1.5, WorkStrip 3.0, Zoom & Pan 3.0

Game Reviews

Game Reviews 07/12/2004 07:25 AM

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AP reviews iTunes 4.5

AP reviews iTunes 4.5 05/06/2004 08:52 AM
The Associated Press today has posted a review of Apple's recently released iTunes 4.5...

Reviews for Make

Reviews for Make 02/01/2005 08:38 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: There's still time to contribute a review to the second issue of MAKE, a technology project magazine I'm editing.

Is there some gadget, tool, web site, newsletter, instructional video, book, magazine, CD-ROM, or instrument you already own and love? Then write about it for MAKE. We'll pay you if we run it.

Reviews should be approximately 100-300 words, and be written in the first person. Think more "recommendation" and "experience" when you write these than "review." We want to hear about your involvement with it.

The old Wired guidelines for reviews went like this: “Write your review. Then write us a letter explaining why we should devote space to your item. Throw away your review and send us the letter.” That's the way to do it.

Send your reviews to markf@oreilly.com

Reviews in RSS feeds

Reviews in RSS feeds 11/03/2003 11:12 AM

The RVW specification is a module extension to the RSS 2.0 syndication format. RVW is intended to allow machine-readable reviews to be integrated into an RSS feed, thus allowing reviews to be automatically compiled from distributed sources.&194;&160; In other words,&194;&160;you can write book, restaurant, movie, product, etc.&194;&160;reviews inside your own&194;&160;website, while allowing them to be used by Amazon or other review aggregators.

Aww, yeah. Bring on the microcontent. Yay, hooray! This is an XML namespace-based extension to RSS 2.0, and for even more flavor, it uses the work of other pre-existing specs, such as ENT, FOAF, and Dublin Core. This wouldn't be hard at all to slip into an RSS 1.0 feed and an RDF database as well.

Matrix reviews

Matrix reviews 11/05/2003 02:29 PM

STLtoday: "The Matrix Revolutions" is awful. It's not merely hapless or disappointing - it's a total catastrophe, an apocalyptic waste of money and talent that obliterates its very purpose, which was to resolve the cosmological questions that were posed by that misbegotten middle child, "The Matrix Reloaded."

Daily Trojan: "by the time the long awaited denouement is delivered, which reveals the power behind the Machine World, the "Deus Ex Machina," most viewers will already be looking at their watches."

Tri-City Herald: "If this is what big-budget freedom does to filmmakers, they should be kept in chains. Louder, longer, more expensive and dumber than its predecessors, "Revolutions" is a mediocrity that will provide escapism only to those who head for the theater exits."

CBS News: "Revolutions" eats all of the goodwill built up by "The Matrix," and then some. It isn't just bad moviemaking -- it's a bizarrely self-destructive film."

BBC NEWS: "No-one really expects sequels to be better than the original, but Matrix Revolutions is a crushing disappointment in almost every way."

More reviews.

Now that your expectations have been sufficiently lowered, feel free to go see it. I certainly will.

Suse 9.1 Reviews?

Suse 9.1 Reviews? 05/14/2004 04:52 PM

PC Game Reviews

PC Game Reviews 08/22/2004 02:26 AM
Taipei Times Online Aug 22 2004 5:53AM GMT

The new Doctor Who reviews

The new Doctor Who reviews 04/14/2005 01:59 PM
The new Doctor Who series has been airing on BBC Television for three weeks now. And it is "good TV" Most all of the reviews are startlingly positive, far more than I've seen for a television series in a long, long time. What is most striking is that many of the commentaries about the "New Who" state that it is just plain ole' good television that combines something intelligent, something scary, something mysterious and something balls-out fun. In our world of reality television, what other series would you classify as being "good tv"? What makes for "good TV"? (Link goes to a fan site that has re-printed and linked to numerous reviews)

CAntenna Reviews

CAntenna Reviews 12/08/2003 04:44 PM
This site offers a review of two cAntennas, or antennas made from cans: The antennas come from EtherDesigns and got pretty high reviews here. Plus, they're cheap!...

Upcoming Reviews

Upcoming Reviews 03/14/2005 05:46 PM
We have a number of upcoming big hardware reviews on the site over the next week or so, here are just a few of them:

Hardware:
Maxtor OneTouch II 250GB USB/FireWire External Harddisk - 7200RPM
Viewsonic VX912 19" 12ms 500:1 (DVI-D) LCD Monitor
Orange SPV M2000 Pocket PC Phone Edition
Samsung YH-999 Portable Media Center
and finally another Media Center PC based review of the Evesham eMedia Micro Tower.

Hardware Reviews

Hardware Reviews 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Motherboard Reviews: What Do You Want?

Motherboard Reviews: What Do You Want? 08/30/2004 11:42 AM
Notes from the Lab: There's an ever-growing mountain of motherboards over at ET headquarters. We want to review them, but thought we'd ask you what you're looking for in a motherboard first. What do you need to know?

Dudes....all the reviews all look the
same....everybody has

Dudes....all the reviews all look the
same....everybody has 08/08/2004 05:28 PM
TechTree Aug 8 2004 8:43PM GMT

More Reviews of FeedDemon 1.5

More Reviews of FeedDemon 1.5 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

"FeedDemon is easily the slickest, most powerful reader I've tried, with features that come close to making it a killer app...After you've tried it, I bet you'll be more than happy to pay for it. " Th e Houston Chronicle

"FeedDemon sets the standard for RSS readers in a market that Microsoft has yet to even address with any of its software products." The Winning AdVantage

"Having happily shelled out semi-big bucks for his beyond awesome CSS editor, TopStyle Pro (probably one of the most elegantly written apps of all time), it was not much of a stretch to part with the $29 registration fee for FeedDemon. So, what is it? It's the best RSS reader in the world...FeedDemon has become a must-have." Imaginary Mind

"FeedDemon's integrated podcasting client is also a work of art making stand alone podcaster irrelevant." tonkinese.net

"I love the integration with de.lico.us, NewsGator, and the newspaper styles" Omar Shahine

"FeedDemon...is my choice as Software Product of the Year. Nick Bradbury, the individual behind FeedDemon, is my choice for Most Valuable Player in the Blogosphere. FeedDemon is that good." Denn is Kennedy

"If you haven't used FeedDemo, then you should. It is bloody brilliant...a dream to use and encompasses every feature a young man could want." PodCastL ab.com

Not So Anonymous Reviews

Not So Anonymous Reviews 02/14/2004 11:51 PM

Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers: Amazon accidentally posted the real names of anonymous book reviewers on their site, and in the process, revealed that the whole user-submitted review process is garbage.

But even with reviewer privacy restored, many people say Amazon's pages have turned into what one writer called "a rhetorical war," where friends and family members are regularly corralled to write glowing reviews and each negative one is scrutinized for the digital fingerprints of known enemies.

One well-known writer admitted privately — and gleefully — to anonymously criticizing a more prominent novelist who he felt had unfairly reaped critical praise for years. She regularly posts responses, or at least he thinks it is her, but the elegant rebuttals of his reviews are also written from behind a pseudonym.

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PC Games Reviews

PC Games Reviews 07/25/2004 01:10 AM
Taipei Times Online Jul 25 2004 5:53AM GMT

NewsForge Reviews Nvu

NewsForge Reviews Nvu 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Reviews of pens

Reviews of pens 05/20/2004 05:43 PM
Illustrator Danny Gregory has reviewed a bunch of pens, accompanied by his drawings of the pens.

"Rotring Rapidoliner: I am really in love with this pen these days and I never would of thunk it. I first tried Rapidographs when I was a teenager but they always clogged and leaked and were a pain to fill. I was forever dismantling the nibs and washing them in the sink and finding ink blots on my shirts. This pen is perfect. My nib is the finest they make and the pen just won’t clog or skip. The guts are disposable, for $4 you get a fresh new nib and supply of Indian ink. I have been drawing with this pen every day for two months and am still on my original cartridge. The pen’s feeling is ultra smooth, a little creamy and a little brittle, like icing on a cupcake. The best $10 I ever spent."

Link (Thanks, Beleg!)
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