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Dave Navarro wrote recently that worrying about what you’re doing (or not doing) is the surest way to keep you poor and unsuccessful. It’s a cracking article with a heap of good points, one of them being that the key difference in the way successful people operate is that they see failure as an integral part of the process of achieving success. That’s true
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5 Reasons Why Trying to be Successful Will Keep You Poor
Librarian in Black has a superb article about the difficulty of using ebooks in a library setting. Here is an excerpt. I heartily recommend that you read the full thing.
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I am a frustrated ebook (non) user, says Librarian in Black
An article about this in the Bookseller today. US publishers are evidently seeking rights to territories that are considered the domain of UK publishers in lieu of global deals, says the article. India, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa are the contested territories right now.
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US chips away at UK export markets – good for readers? bad for authors?
The business of generating massive income online is still a strong, profitable and prudent system to setting up a business at home. A great many internet marketers work fairly hard and have loads of responsibilities in their daily job.
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Converting Website Traffic – Must Have On-Site Elements To Get More Sales
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change site has an interesting essay by former Google Deputy General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray on copyright issues that need to be addressed for e-books and other digital media. The interesting thing is that many of the issues he brings up are not the ones commonly argued between copyrighters and copyfighters
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Former Google counsel on needed copyright reforms in the digital age
Each Friday I pick my favorite stories from the previous week. It is purely a subjective judgement. Check out new media discovery site – Critical Mob Oxford Dictionaries Online arrives Amazon Encore: Amazon’s gradual change, Konrath’s publishing decision Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription by Joanna New iPhone/iPad app from National Library of Information: WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) USB typewriter connected to an iPad – I want one of these Teaching with the iPad – first days by Joanna Send selected full text ebooks from Open Library to a Kindle with only a couple of clicks Digg us
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Editor’s Pick of the Week
Based on a survey with over 3600 graduate and undergraduate students worldwide, IBM’s recently released Global Student Study 2010 compares side by side the value system, mindset, and management style of future leaders with those of current generation CEOs. The findings supplement insights from their 2010 CEO Study, which we discussed in our last blog post . If you are leading a function or a business unit, you should read carefully what these students have to say.
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Leadership In the Age of Scarcity
Many of us have the goal of finding better writing clients who pay more and come back to use our services again and again , but we often sabotage our own efforts to get better gigs. Sometimes the sabotage consists of not having enough confidence to even apply for the best writing projects. When this is the case, we’re defeated before we even start.
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How to Show Your Freelance Writing Prospects that You Mean Business
Too many would-be ecommerce entrepreneurs start a home business without taking the time to research and do the homework required to know what they are getting into. Starting a business on nothing more than a whim is a very bad idea, …
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ECommerce Home Business Start-Up Mistakes: What NOT to Do
Brian Peterson posts on a fascinating West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decision involving the use of social media between a juror and defendant and the issue of disclosure of such connections during voir dire .
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Reversal of Conviction Because Undisclosed MySpace Friendship Between Defendant and Juror
I was going through some old New York Times Magazines a few weeks ago, and came across an article by financial guru Suze Orman. A lot of advisors in the financial industry don’t like Suze Orman. Sure, she has made some errors in advice and made some mistakes in her books, but in general her conservative approach to investing and insurance are dead on for the average middle class investor
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Suze Orman, Self-Worth and Freelance Writing, Part 1
In its finale, Supernatural delivered not only one of the finest hours of network television of 2010, but it also supplied one of the most intellectually and satisfying closures any sci-fi or horror series ever broadcast.
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Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Supernatural and Matthew Clay …
If you’re looking for ways to stretch your budget, checking all your insurance options is an important step. Consider this: If you’re over 50 and have gone for quite some time without an accident, it’s quite likely that – even after any “rebates” you receive from your auto insurer, that additional savings could be yours
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Reduce Overhead By Updating Car Insurance Quotes
On June 13 our own Joanna published an article entitled Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription , in which she detailed some of the problems she had with the new Kobo Reader.
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Kobo Vice President replies to issues raised by TeleRead’s Joanna
In other news Thursday, rescue workers searched for dozens of workers underground after an explosion rocked the San Fernando Mine in Amaga, Colombia, killing 16. Also, European Union leaders adopted new sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program.
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News Wrap: Coal Mine Explosion Killls At Least 16 in Colombia
The chance that the News Corp bid for BSkyB will be followed by a $2 billion offer for SKY Network Television of New Zealand was enough to have Macquarie’s Auckland-based analysts run for the abacus yesterday.
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News Corp and SKY TV
The Washington Post picks a good moment to profile Scott Rasmussen, the pollster who’s hitting the big-time, even if the old-school polling crowd doesn’t like it. As cash-strapped newspapers and television networks struggle to meet the growing demand for polls, Rasmussen, 54, is supplying reams of cheap, automated surveys that will measure — and maybe move — opinion, especially…
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Audit D.C. Notes: Ouija Boards, Older 99ers, Making Lemonade
When I began the Freelance Writing Jobs blog five years ago, it was a fun hobby. I enjoyed trolling the Internet for job leads each morning and sharing with my fellow freelancers. For me, it was a relaxing way to enjoy my first cup of coffee
Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide; Chris Actis, Senior VP, MediaVest USA; Shiv Sigh, VP, Razorfish; Chris Wilkes, VP, Hearst Magazines Digital Media; Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Moderator Hayden: size does matter and the iPad is a content machine. Question: when buy an ad on Wired does this have to be approved by Apple and he won’t get back any info from them on the ad results? Apple will always provide the best user experience.
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Untethered – The Bottom Line: the role of advertising
Peter Davis, President McGraw-Hill Education; Brian Murray, President & CEO HarperCollins Publishers; Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO, Simon & Schuster; David Steinberger, President & CEO, Perseus Books Group; Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google; Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs Books Davis: at McGraw only a small part of business plays by the traditional rules of publishing. The educational part is very healthy. Sold Business Week because of desire to reduce exposure to advertising based revenues.
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Untethered – The future of book publishing