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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
I believe there is a major design flaw with the current Kindle, and all models up until now. I think Amazon may be aware of it, since they’ve bought a company that creates touch screen technlogy. The problem is the forward and backward buttons. If you have ever had carpal tunnel or any repetitive stress […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
This is what Matthew W. Barrett , CEO of Barclay’s Bank had to say:
If you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet.
Teach kids the humanities, and […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
A ranking of 850,000 on Amazon probably means a book sells one or two copies a year. You could get a bit cynical and say you’re surprised it’s even that high. However, as traditional and e-book publishers churn out those clone-like English writing texts that will guarantee you’ll write prose ‘not fit for Christian ear […]
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
FREE FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES
I was reading what is considered to be the best book on photographic lighting; it ranks number one in that category on Amazon. On the first page, it encourages the reader by stating that it’s easier than learning a foreign language. It’s also easier for marketers to give things an ‘exotic’ foreign […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Although the precise year for the promulgation of an idea that could have a vast effect on marketing could be argued, I’d put it at 1956. It was the year Edward Sapir, the linguist, published and promulgated much of the writings he and his colleague Benjamin Lee Whorf had accumulated over a fifteen-year period in a […]
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