An online notebook
A year or so ago, I wrote about my dead tree web 2.0 reading list, which was all about what books were being published about the interactive web. I’ve bought most of those on the list, plus a bunch of others that folk suggested. There are other books one can buy about this stuff though, … Keep reading
Yet more dead tree web 2.0 reading… And yes, that is WordPress for Dummies – it’s a great book with tonnes of stuff for newbies and experienced WordPressers alike – recommended!
I’m working my way through my dead tree reading list, and right now I’m burning through Seth Godin‘s Meatball Sundae. It’s terrific stuff. Here’s one nugget from early on in the book -a list of ‘the foundations of new marketing’. It works for stuff other than marketing, though, I reckon, and might serve as a … Keep reading
William Shaw has a rant on Palimpsest about Tim Butcher’s Blood River: Of course the real reason why the Congo is a hell hole has to do with the last 150 years of history, not with any darkness. The older part is documented in Hochschild’s brilliant history King Leopold’s Ghost. Back then it was about … Keep reading
I’m reading the marvellous The Atlantic Ocean by Andrew O’Hagan at the moment. It’s a collection of essays, mostly taken from The London Review of Books and is a wonderful eclectic collection of writing. Take this little gem, for example, from the opening lines of a piece about celebrity memoirs: If you want to be … Keep reading