Posted in I Don't Know???, tagged email etiquette on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Email communication can be, at times, a most dubious tool …
It can be so difficult to gauge a person’s intention, their attitude or tone – particularly if they are rather ’short’ with their emails or not a good writer at all!
I have myself, periodically, received such an email; the kind that you ‘really just don’t [...]
Posted in I Don't Know???, tagged digital rights management, DRM, ereaders, stanza on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The free eReader iPhone application Stanza allows you to read books on your Mac or PC and share with your iPhone, Ipod Touch and Kindle and is designed for reading large bodies of text where formatting is not an integral part of the reading experience.
In a worldwide buzz of establishing appropriate e-readers and formats to [...]
Posted in I Don't Know??? on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so it’s been a while …
And yes, I know, the title is a tad dramatic! However, my experience tells me, that’s how it’s always ‘picked up’ in search engines and the like, so you can’t really blame me. I need to ‘practice what I preach’ every now and then.
Admittedly, I established this blog back [...]
Posted in I Don't Know???, tagged crimes against humanity, geoffrey robertson, penguin books, publishing news on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems that Pengin are ‘getting back to basics’ with their nostalgic retro looking book covers. Hailed as being a bit of a marketing ploy, it seems that the $9.95 price tag is very attractive indeed. Interestingly, the production cost of a cover hardly equates to the sensational reduction in price these books are [...]
Posted in I Don't Know???, tagged business consumerism, perkonomics, trend briefing, trendwatching on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently signed up to receive Trendwatching’s regular updates entitled, The Trend Briefing. The company itself scans the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. If you’re interested in the future of business consumerism then you might like to take a look.
Apparently the concept of everything from frequent flying [...]
Write Yourself Well - How to Use The Power of Writing For Growth & Healing by Angela Sands. $9.95 from Smashwords.com
'Write Yourself Well' is a wonderfully positive book about how you can use writing, or expressive therapy as it is more widely known, to literally heal yourself - body, mind and soul. This is not a book about ignoring the prescribed medical treatments from qualified professionals - whether that be from therapists, psychologists or medical specialists, but to be used as a valuable supportive tool.
