Monthly Archives: April 2007

[Disclaimer: By day, I work in marketing for OCLC, and our eContent division is NetLibrary, which markets eBooks to libraries, which then loan them to users. This post isn't about that process, that product, our partner publishers or that space … Continue reading →

This. Is. Simply. Awesome. Birmingham version on YouTube here. “And I’m thirsty.” Helsinki version here. “All ringtones are annoying.” Hamburg. “There is plenty of debate, but nothing gets done.” St Petersberg. Lovely tune. My favorite musically. “I’m not ready to … Continue reading →

Quick thought… lots of folks have been talking about how user created content on social sites is subject to the “1-10-90″ rule. This is the idea that 1% of users will actually create new content, 90% of users will come … Continue reading →

Turns out I have something in common with the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Zaslow: we’ve both been plagiarized… If you haven’t heard, CBS News’ Katie Couric recently did a “Katie’s Notebook” piece, performed in the first person [“I still remember … Continue reading →

Thanks to a post at Raph’s blog, I found an article/story at the Washington Post that can be summarized pretty quickly for you: Paper hires world-famous violinist to play great classical works incommunicado at rush-hour in public on famous violin … Continue reading →

Creativity is largely misunderstood in our culture, if not in all cultures. There is a mystique about it that we attribute to artists and craftspeople who “create” something from nothing; paintings, poetry, stories, music, etc. And while those activities are … Continue reading →