Thomas Little, a home-schooled, eight-year-old boy recently became a published author. He used Lulu (www.lulu.com), a print-on-demand, self-publishing site, to publish “The Adventures of the Symbols,” his first–but not last–book. Characters such as “@,” “$,” and “%” engage in a classic struggle of good vs. evil. The 28-page story can be purchased at http://www.lulu.com/dlittle. Eight-Year-Old …
Wireless networks just keep getting stronger. Telcos used be so secure in the knowledge that they owned the wires. But this data is not travelling down the wires! Qualcomm Successfully Transmits VoIP over EV-DO Wireless Network » Telecommunications Industry News
Interesting article on Myspace Film which hs been out since March 7th but hasn’t had much exposure. Great to see a collaboration vehicle between musicians and filmmakers! Search Engine Lowdown: MySpace 2.0: an Entertainment Collaboration/Distribution Network
Sweden and Norway have long been ahead in many social and technology trends. Whether it is the comprehensive daycare system or the ability to shop in supermarkets where the customers not only scan the goods themselves but also pay in a machine, these countries often give us a vision of where we are going. The …
Four new from Book Surge. In the book, Lam also describes the minimum spiritual criteria and the necessary steps one must take in order to pass the Final Judgment and be elected for the next stage of human evolution: the Wisdom Era. Filled with messages of hope, reconciliation, love, wisdom, peace, and redemption, The Last …
I’ve often wonered whether the constant strung of new products from Google have any real context to them or not. I gained some great context from Shrikant Joshi a fellow Performancer. He reckons that “one fine day, if they choose to bring all services (the old ones, the current and the new ones) under one …
Not often you see a fiction book going through the trials of self-publishing including losing a “publisher” along the way. Here is a path that ends or should we say begins at Random House. Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Wire
Great article and book! Brief summary below but read the lot here Why the world is now flat – JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM THOMAS L Friedman’s is entitled, The World is Flat. Flattener No 1: When the walls came down and the Windows went up Flattener No 2: When Netscape went public, Flattener No 3: Work Flow Software …
Clyde Bentley,is an innovator and evangelist for what is often called citizen journalism. Some prefer the term “participatory journalism,” “open source journalism” or even just plain “journalism.” No matter what you call it, in practice it involves people of all ages and interests collecting, writing and publishing news, usually online, by and for themselves. He …
“Blooks” — books based on blogs or Web sites — are a growth market for Lulu. On a recent list of the company’s 100 top-selling books, 20 were based on content first produced for the Web. Lulu played up its affinity with bloggers earlier this year by sponsoring the Blooker Prize, the first literary prize …
