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Very good read about the state of book publishing and Amazon’s stake in it. I hope they crush it. http://pco.lt/xrWGkM   “In November 1997, on a night of pounding rain in midtown Manhattan, Rupert Murdoch threw a party for Jane Friedman, the new chief executive officer of News Corp.’s HarperCollins book division. The luminaries of [...]

“Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of gummy bears, your site will appear to grow quickly. Advertisers reward size, [...]

UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre spent months infiltrating the Pantheon, the grand structure in Paris that houses the remains of France’s most cherished citizens. Eight restorers built their own secret workshop in a storeroom, which they wired for electricity and Internet access and [...]

By examining the process of putting someone under with anesthesia, scientists are starting to understand the heirarchy of the brain. http://pco.lt/zMq5vj

Probably the first WSJ article I’ve read about crime and drugs that involved banner ads and Goog. Interesting though, especially since Google is held liable for allowing advertising for products that are illegal in the States. By this same logic, shouldn’t National Geographic be liable for showing me how to build a drug sub? But [...]