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Free by Chris Anderson, FREE!
July 8, 2009
It doesn’t get much simpler than that; you can now read the almost-certainly-about-to-be-a-best-seller book Free, the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, the author of old-skool social media gospel Long Tail, right here online. I mean yeah, you could click away to Amazon and buy it there and spend anxious weeks waiting to […]
Shebeen Club June 15 Independent Publishing: Fab or Folly?
June 1, 2009
Since from day to day it looks like I will/won’t be in town for the Shebeen Club meeting on June the 15th, I’ve asked Ian Alexander Martin to take over in my stead. Naturally, should I be in town on the evening in question, I’ll expect him to give up the scepter of leadership but […]
DOC workshop: funding your first documentary
March 27, 2009
From a press release from DOCBC: This coming Tuesday at SFU downtown. Carts of Darkness is amazing, if you haven’t already seen it.
Tax Tips for Artists Workshop
March 19, 2009
From the Alliance for Arts and Culture: Tax Relief: Making Tax Preparation Painless Wednesday, April 1, 2009 1:00 -4:00pm Alliance for Arts & Culture Boardroom Suite 100 – 938 Howe Street BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! This workshop will be ideal for self-employed artists and craftspeople that have little or no experience preparing taxes. If you […]
measuring the true cost of your choices
August 20, 2007
Your life is a strange and complex web defined by the tension between choices made and choices forgone. On internetducttape, engtech has a good post about weighing the cost of your life choices and making informed decisions, including the decision to incorporate deliberately “unproductive” time in your day-to-day routine. Remember, inspiration and insight cannot strike […]
diary of a (hard) liver
July 26, 2007
Here’s an intriguing article from the Times of London, the alcohol diary of a columnist who thought: Oh hey, I’m getting on, maybe I should start cutting down, just in case, you know. Then he found out how much he really had been drinking, day in and day out. Not a pretty picture: I had […]
the walkability test
July 20, 2007
Walk Score is an interesting online service that rates your neighborhood by walkability: things like proximity to cafes and parks, presence of sidewalks (why do they even allow developers to build without sidewalks?) and safety features like street lights. You can check out the neighborhood around your home (mine rates 49 out of 100; guess […]
site-specific stress
July 9, 2007
Now, this is interesting…but also a bit of a well duh. According to a study released by the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford, sites that load slowly and are hard to navigate caused classic signs of stress including sweating and an increase in heart rate. Now, theoretically this means you could get your aerobic […]
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