Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Are you ready for a Twitter-based Obama town hall-style meeting? I guess it sucks to work at RIM, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, these days. Troubled News Corporation asset MySpace has…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
MySpace was just sold. Again. Hackers have busted into a database of US military personnel. A video of NASA (successfully) testing their new hovering robotic lander. Cool. Why yes, I…
How Does He Do It?
Being overwhelmed by the myriad distractions and endless information floating around the universe can feel a personal struggle. How come it seems like everybody else can deal with it so…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The + project, Google’s answer to social networking, launched today. The Supreme Court sayz: Cali can’t ban selling violent video games to kids. The hacking group LulzSec is disbanding. A…
Site for Cities
A new destination awaits the city dwellers, lovers, and planners among us. Yesterday The Atlantic announced its plans to launch The Atlantic Cities in September. The imminent site will be…
Time for a Digital Diet?
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times. “A book…
What Would A Kid Say About Go the Fuck to Sleep?
Seems like big kids and parents alike are getting a lot of writing mileage out of Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s playfully honest plea to his daughter to…
E-Publishers’ Guides to Writing Books
Ever heard of this guy? Chances are you haven’t, but one peek at that link will show you just how much you’re missing out on. Manuel Ortiz Braschi is one…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Hacker group LulzSec, after almost two months of chaos, called a truce on Saturday. But their hacktivist buddies Anonymous say there’s no end in sight for them. Plus, if you…
John Locke Remix
There’s a new John Locke who is less known for his philosophy on natural rights, and is more famous for his e-book success. In fact, he is “the first self-published…
The History of Media in New Forms
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone is discussing the media in new forms without losing the intimacy that the radio provides listeners. Her book, The Influencing Machine traces the history of…
New Site For Nonfiction Lovers
There’s a new literary website, claiming that enviable title “the Pandora of narrative nonfiction.” Byliner.com compiles writer profile pages, full of long-form stories gathered from all corners of the web,…