Workplaces are so riddled with gossip that employees believe they are more likely to hear important workplace announcements through the office rumour-mill than direct from their managers. Psst, most workers get news through gossip first
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Do-it-Yourself Digital Revolution
Jonathan Caouette was a 28-year-old computer illiterate living a Bohemian lifestyle in New York City until a friend gave him an Apple iMac computer, writes Robert Hanashiro for USA Today.
“Caouette quickly mastered iMovie, the consumer-level video editing software that comes free with Apple computers...He next used iMovie’s editing and special effects tools to transform two decades of mementos into a bio-documentary, Tarnation, revolving around his troubled mother. The movie got rave reviews at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, then played in art house theaters across the country.”
Tech turns average Joes into mini-Spielbergs
• Powerful art on the cheap [Roger Fischer, KAYWA You can now directly videoblog from your your mobile phone to your KAYWA weblog ; Issue two has arrived in US bookstores, especially Barnes and Nobles, nationwide Literary Theory: Death is Not the End ; We can see that there is rather more to medieval philosophy than a set of long involved debates about squeezing angels onto pinheads! Eras of Medieval Christian Thought: Mark Daniels ]
• · Years spent as a self-publisher and apart from any literary establishment have left an evident self-confidence. He ran off 50,000 copies of one book and sold them all himself, sometimes quite literally. "I made a sandwich poster (board) saying 'I am the author,'" he says, recalling his pitch on a street in Kiev in the early 1990s The new penguin classics ; The flopping of another Australian movie at the box office is no surprise The Tribal Mind
• · · Classic Shauny Meeting People at Woolworth :-D ; Classic Gianna Putting Her Foot In
• · · · Amazon has apparently bought European-based Mobipocket, a PDA e-publishing competitor to Motricity (which owns what began as Palm-based ereading software and inventory) Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC; BookSurge provides services to both publishers and about 4,000 individual authors. Amazon vp of media products Greg Greeley says in a statement Charleston report
• · · · · Following the Trail of the Disappearing Data
• · · · · · Authors Guild Foundation benefit dinner justly honored the extraordinary efforts of First Book, run by Kyle Zimmer, to provide children from low-income families with their first brand-new book, to own, read, and keep at home. Along the way, they are giving "ownership" of the gateway to life that reading provides to literally millions of children who might not otherwise be provided that opportunity. The organization recently gave away its 30 millionth book. But their goals and ambitions remain high, as do their needs. See their web site for ways to get involved. First Things First