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Links of Interest (April 27th 2007 Through April 28th 2007)

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

The Dragon Page » Contest: Crystal Rain Giveaway: In honor of the May 2007 paperback release of Crystal Rain, author Tobias Buckell has graciously consigned us 3 signed hardcover copies to give away to Dragon Page listeners
Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary: Finally a dictionary where you don’t have to know how to spell the word before looking up how to spell the word. Pulls from Wiktionary and Princeton WordNet. I especially like that you can lookup multiple words at once (use commas to separate). Oh and
MythShow 07: Interview with Mur Lafferty
Transcription of the Panel at Lunacon 2007: A transcription of the ‘Ask The Editors’ panel at the 2007 Lunacon, recorded by John Joseph Adams, and featuring Douglas Cohen, Marvin Kaye, Hildy Silverman, and Wendy S. Delmater. Contains link to mp3.
User-Generated Content Is Top Threat to Media and Entertainment Industry, Accenture Survey Finds: Media and entertainment executives see the growing ability and eagerness of individuals to create their own content as one of the biggest threats to their business, according to results of a survey released today by Accenture.
First look: Downey forges a bond with ‘Iron Man’ role – USATODAY.com: Look like this could be good (please let it be good).

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Links of Interest

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

The World in the Satin Bag: Stuffs For Us Writers (Part One): Software and gadgets for writers
Nostalgy Thunderbird Extension: This is probably the most useful, time saving Thundrebird extension I’ve ever used. Try it out.
Jason Penney@ iStalkr: Social Feed Aggregator: My iStalkr page
Now Reading 4.3.6: New version of “Now Reading” wordpress plugin
Twitter Tools README: README for Alex King’s Twitter Tools wordpress plugin.
Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today: Some JavaScript best practices.

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Clocky Now Available!

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

About two years ago I mentioned clocky, the alarm clock that runs away from you developed at MIT. Seems that it’s now available for purchase.

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Scott Sigler Scores a Three Book Deal

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Quick follow up to the last post. See Scott’s announcement here. I’m sure there will be more info forthcoming. Congratulations!

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Podiobooks and Free E-Books Harmful?

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Flametoad seems to thinks so (found via TeleRead). He suggests that authors like Cory Doctorow, JC Hutchins and Scott Sigler are devaluing the audiobook and e-book formats, and buying the p-book is “paying for the paper because the content has no value”

I don’t see it. Perhaps these authors value readers. After all, what value does you work have if no one has read it? Cory Doctorow’s books keep showing up in the bookstore. In fact IDW recently bought the rights to do a series of comics based on his works even though the license for those works allows anyone to create such comics non-commercially. Scott Sigler recently managed to sell quite a few copies of his new print book recently. Heck, I bought two (one as a gift).

I have both an audible.com and a podiobooks.com account. Do I value one over the other? Not really. I don’t think most people equate free with no value. Not anymore, if they ever did.