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Typography for lawyers : Who could object?
Micro Persuasion: Make Magic with Metadata in Gmail : How to use gmail as a database tool
David Foster Wallace on English Usage : He was in favor of it
David Foster Wallace’s Syllabus : Writing was required
Facebook profiles can be used to detect [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS : Pick your style by viewing examples
1000 things I’ve learned about blogging : From the Online Journalism Blog
Is Google selling your personal data? : And who’s buying?
Do not bash arugula : Obama eats rocket!
Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives : No excuse [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Danteworlds : Does the selva oscura have WiFi?
Book design as translation : The designer as intermediary
New Venture to Offer Small Publishers Digital Technology : Ebooks and POD for the rest of us
Signed first edition of Plato’s Republic : only fair condition, but consider its age
A strange eBay exaggeration [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Show your working : Penguin post-its
Top 10 literary virgins : So it’s said
Bay Area journal is improbable success story : Is that the last word?
A very English blunder? : Incised letters on a historic building
Chronicle Books Selects TeleScope : But what is it? Project management software?

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Court rules for transitive verbs : Hits the nail on the head
Will the last book review editor please turn out the lights? : Another gets the boot
How Kafkaesque is Kafka? : Thiiiis Kafkaesque
Questions about bookplates : Mine is “why?”
Mistakes authors make [...]

“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil

Outsourcing copyediting to India? : Could this work?
Typographers’ handwriting : They’re clearly all crazy
Patriot Act, take 2 : Coming to the internets near you?
“You’re a Bad Mommy!” : Advertising, 1941 style
The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog : “The current state of copyright law is too depressing”
MoFo [...]

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On wanting to be a writer : Bukowski’s advice
A book With 90,000 authors : With so many authors it has to be good. Right?
LA Times to Fold Standalone Book Review : Not many left
Calculating Book Sales from Amazon’s Sales Rank : For what it’s worth
Lulu for magazines? : Now you can publish a magazine [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which … – William Butler Yeats

Fauxcabulary : It’s megagaltastic
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words : A step-by-step guide
Second-guessing Borges’s translation of Woolf : From a feminist pespective
Radar launches : Geo-based aggregator
Society of Authors lists top translations of past half century : We’re no. 36 [...]

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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” — Benjamin Franklin

Have you optimized your Amazon page? : me neither

A fair fair : PW wraps up the BEA
The blook network : Great, a new way for publishing to descend [...]

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Absolute or Relative URLs?
Borders Eliminates 274 Spots
Using Amazon sales ranks for market analysis
Which cover is better?
Lexicographie is online …
… but who owns French?
Coming soon: Typeface, the movie

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“Harry Potter had more problems dealing with Voldemort than what we have dealing with the media and the Celtics.” — Kobe Bryant

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“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Fake Sex and the City book propels real book sales
Why FightTheSmears.com is Barack Obama’s Smartest Move Yet
LA Times 2008 summer reading list
Babylon Salon Summer Reading
The Bodleian Library Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Twelve Publishers
Can You Become a [...]

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

(Online) myths overheard at BEA 2008
Talking about on-line promotion at BEA
New technologies worry book publishers
Germany abuzz over novel of sex and … hygiene?
Friedman out as HarperCollins CEO | Bosses may have hastened departure
Tote bags and gloom at BEA
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“Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves.” — La Fontaine

Endless Knots: “Information wants to be free”
A Parisian palimpsest
Some thoughts on gender-neutral language
5 Photoshop masking techniques
David Rieff on his mum
Big money in book reviewing
The most miserable, put-upon job in media

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“Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves.” — La Fontaine

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Dumbest of the twenty worst?
Soft shading in Photoshop
Pro rata, pro ratad, prorate (editor’s dilemma)
Massimo Vignelli’s New York subway map
Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled

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“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Design is best from small teams
An interview with type designer Jos Buivenga
Teaching Typography in Buenos Aires
Resist Redesign
Cyan, The Color of Timeless Marketing
More on creative commons and copyright
Small Press Spotlight: C. M. Mayo
Are you your bookshelf?
Even though you know they’re heartless [...]

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Getty Images Bought by Hellman & Friedman
Online reading counts too
Amsterdam, world book capital
Ways to get your magazine article queries accepted
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago
Buy your own New York subway map for only$299
Royals reduced to vanity publishing

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Judging books by their covers
On Choosing Type
History out, celebrities in
61% of historians rate the Bush presidency worst ever
Backlash against ABC News
Stinehour Press closing
World Book and Copyright Day

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Banning English
Ikea snubbing Danes?
Speikermann: “It’s about bloody time”
Back-of-the-head book covers
Canada’s oldest bookstore closes
Puffin Classics redesigned
Turn Photoshop Layers On/Off in InDesign
5 blogging lessons
In defense of big ideas in fiction

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Black man accosts crowd, demands change
Julio Cortázar, le cronope engagé
Best-seller most-stolen books list
Why we remember (sort of) Mr. Boycott
A book of wonders

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Made-up memoirs noone found suspicious
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