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Harder than it looks

"I learned that the Internet is a very, very noisy place, and that just about everyone is selling something."

-- David Kazzie on his experience promoting his self-published thriller, "How Amazon's KDP Select Saved My Book"

A word to the wise

Now even the SEO giant is warning publishers to get serious about social:

Social is the way in which people will get their news in the future; it already is for some.

-- Richard Gingras, head of News Products for Google, to Knight Fellows at Stanford

What’s on your home screen?

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I really liked this post from 37signals, in which its employees offered up screenshots of their iPhone/iPod screens. No commentary, except for what each person does in the company, but I thought the post served as a neat look into what was most important for each person. (Especially their docks.)

I ...

Steve Jobs

After Apple announced Wednesday night that Steve Jobs had died, my Twitter feed became nothing but a long procession of Jobs eulogies, many of them touching.

This morning, I spent a little time reading some of the longer-form appreciations of Jobs (Neven Mrgan and Steven Frank's are especially good.)

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    Damn, this kid is awesome. #rubsomedirtonit #letsplay


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    Economic indicator? The yellow bag is full of Black Friday circulars; twice as big as the white newspaper bag


  • Convenient Wrapper

    “I think people think of Barnes & Noble as a convenient wrapper around a Starbucks.”
    — Dan Benjamin’s apt description in a discussion about the Kindle Fire vs. the B&N Nook on the 5by5 podcast “Build & Analyze”

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