The Daily Square – Burning Down The House Edition
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On Business Versus, Uh, Communicating With Readers
If all you want to do is communicate with your readers sans the filthy tiremarks of the Highway of Commerce, write a blog. Filthy Lucre
The Daily Square – Midnight Train To Georgia Edition
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E-Readers — Perfection Not Required
Last week (so long ago), we pointed you to a little piece from Engadget about the iPod and its possible future as an e-reader. Other than our fascination the weird phrasing associated with publisher compliance — “…according to a source at a major publishing house, they were just ordered to archive all their manuscripts — every single one — and send them over to Apple’s Cupertino HQ…” — we were mildly interested in this development. Let’s be honest, making text available on an iPod is a tweaking of technology. The story was picked up by Tom’s Hardware (yes, we know,
Hot, Hot, Hot
Against the will of its occupants, Chez Booksquare has decided to voluntarily participate in a series of rolling blackouts. We will try to eke out a Daily Square between outages, but do not have high hopes for much more than that. We’re then heading for the glorious city of Atlanta, where we understand the temperatures are balmy and the humidity is mild…at least compared to what we’ve been been suffering. Posting will be light to strange, depending on what we encounter in the State of Georgia.