a Market/Market Place (more)

Art Kleiner's history of magazine formats. In a systematic way, since about 1890, the slick Magazine style has been refined as a corporate formula for grabbing readers, for enticing them to look at everything (especially the Advertising) and for allowing them to forget everything once they've read it. (more)

Django doesn't persist connctions to your Data Store. Wow that's a lot of overhead.

Currency that exists only within a Virtual World (more)

Forbes Com will have sponsor-owned blogs that will run alongside those of the Journalist-s. Science Blogs redux?

Amazon has been granted a Patent written in 2004 for charging readers for the ability to pre-view subsets of a book before buying it. The new patent says the pay-to-preview model could also extend to "magazines, newspapers, newsletters, manuals, guides, references, articles, reports, documents, etc." This smells more like a general Metered Pay Wall to me.

In a 6-5 ruling issued this afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Barack Obama administration a major victory in its efforts to shield George W Bush crimes from Judicial Review, when the court upheld the Obama DOJ's argument that Bush's Rendition program, used to send victims to be Torture-d, are "StateSecret-s" and its legality thus cannot be adjudicated by courts. (more)

As part of my Book Server thinking, I should document current non-random practice of how various non-retailers (e.g. authors, publishers) generate sales (Printed Book and EBook). Do publishers sell themselves? Do they also point to Amazon and others? Do authors point to their publisher's site (if that publisher does self-selling), or point to retailers? (Business Models For Information) (more)

in particular "Extraordinary Rendition" (more)

see Purple Numbers

Big Agriculture poster-child (more)

The universe is not just weirder than we imagine, it's weirder than we can imagine. (more)

Big Agriculture, aka AgriBusiness (more)

Fabius Maximus on the potential future Side Effect-s of major Mercenary use that we've done for our War On Iraq and Afghanistan adventures. (more)

Blog Comment service. (more)

Donald Vandergriff suggests various Public Policy changes to plan for the Long Emergency and resulting Scarcity. He does make a good point that supporting Immigration, while it might make sense under "normal" conditions, might not be a good idea if you belief we're going to have huge global resource problems (and prefer to protect those born here).

I've driven past the Sears Centre arena/Sports Stadium in Hoffman Estates Il a couple times, and wondered what's going on. (more)

commander of war in Afghanistan until MichaelHastings' Rolling Stone article. (more)

Retail partner of Book Publishing (more)

writer with WireLess/WiFi focus (more)