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≡ Category: Books, Web/Tech | ≅ 2 Comments
Thanks to George Smyth of the One Minute How-To Podcast, I bring you this quick discussion of how to build an online author fan base. This is a quick breakdown of the method that’s worked for me. If you’re looking for more quick how-to’s, visit: www.oneminutehowto.com Play Now | Download
≡ Category: Physics, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Back when I was at the now defunct Alliance for Lifelong Learning (an e-learning venture put together by Stanford, Oxford and Yale), we did a religion course that keyed off of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. No one thought highly of the book, but the dean of the Yale Divinity School believed that the book’s [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Every June 16 is Bloomsday, which commemorates James Joyce’s Ulysses (get free audio of the text here). In Dublin and around the world, celebrations usually include a reading of Joyce’s classic. Last year, in New York City, one high-profile event featured Stephen Colbert reading the part of Leopold Bloom, the character around which the sprawling novel [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Andrew Sullivan has been embarrassing America’s traditional mass media. With his one man blog, he has provided richer and more immediate insight into what’s happening on the ground in Iran than even The New York Times. (I ask, somewhat facetiously, would we really miss the beleaguered newspaper industry if it went away? Not this week, we [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
The BBC has posted online some 1969 interviews with Vladimir Nabokov. In one piece, Nabokov talks about some of the Russian greats and roundly dismisses Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (my current read) and Crime & Punishment. Ouch. But he saves some kind words for Tolstoy and Joyce. For more, get the interviews here. via Maud [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Not long ago, we featured David Sedaris reading “Of Mice and Men,” a comic bit from his newish book, When You are Engulfed in Flames. Now, we give you another funny (also live) reading from the same book. The story is called “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle,” and you can get it as an mp3 here. Related [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
On Friday, we brought you Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s multimedia presentation at the TED conference. Now we bring you his new film, Home, which you can watch until the end of the day on YouTube. The trailer is above, the complete film is here. When you’re done, you won’t look at our planet in the same way. (You [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 2 Comments
Check out Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. He’s doing a great job of watching things unfold in Tehran. More good blogging coming from the NYTimes Lede blog. Meanwhile CNN has dropped the ball big time, and is taking a beating on Twitter. Check out the new website, CNNfail.com.
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Here we have Yann Arthus-Bertrand talking at the TED Conference and displaying his recent photographic and cinematographic work that focuses on humanity and our habitat. The work is as visually stunning as the story it tells is disheartening. Definitely worth giving this one some time. We’ll be following up later today with some more media from Arthus-Bertrand. Stay tuned [...]
≡ Category: Art, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
This caught my attention today: “The National Gallery is the first ever gallery to make its paintings accessible through a downloadable iPhone application, making it possible to take a mini tour of the Gallery anywhere in the world. The Gallery, in partnership with Antenna Audio and Apple Inc., has designed a new application for iPhones [...]
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