In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself, a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham, her husband, “why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade ...without ever leaving thy tent?”
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, “How dear?” And Dot replied, “I will place drums in all towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. And the sale can be made on the drums and the delivery made using Uriah’s Pony Stable (UPS).”
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.
Willie Real is a illustrator and animation concept artist based out of San Francisco. He spent 5 years at Blue Sky Studios developing characters and environments on films such as Horton Hears A Who, Ice Age, Rio, and Epic. Recently he’s been doodling for one of those internet start ups. Lots more work on his blog.
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Hi wow thanks for posting these! I’m so glad people like them! However, I only did the shotput and pingpong doodles - the rest were done by Ryan Germick (opening, fencing, field hockey) and Sophia Foster-Dimino (archery, diving, rings, pole vault) - please head over to their respective blogs and give them some love!
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Wondering who drew the Google Doodles appearing during the 2012 London Games? They were created by a trio of illustrators: Sophie Diao, Ryan Germick, and Sophia Foster-Dimino, as mentioned in this tweet by Sophia.
I’ll repeat what others have said too: “Hey Google, please credit your illustrators publicly. This isn’t hard to do; magazines, newspapers, and other websites do it all the time.”
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Children’s book illustrators and anyone absorbed in the curious business of children’s book illustration, Do you find it interesting, as I do that the big commercial for Google’s Nexus 7 features a little girl and her mom reading a Curious George story on the device? Google, in its elegant way used a simple illustrated page from [...]
Looking for some guidance with literary Google products? At a Social Media Week event in Los Angeles, Google’s Melissa Daniels and Jacky Hayward outlined how the tech giant reaches out to users in online forums.
We explored these forums, finding the most useful communities for writers and publishing professionals to explore. Follow the links below to visit:
1. Google docs forum about the online writing tool
2. Google Books API forum about the book search tool
3. Books on Google Play support page for digital book readers
4. Blogger forum for troubleshooting problems on your blog
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Writers could have a new kind of work in a world where everyone wears a computer. In an inspiring essay, The Atlantic senior editor Alexis Madrigal looked forward to a world where everyone is wearing Google Glass–a pair of glasses that work like a computer screen.
While wearing these glasses, we would receive a stream of information about the world around us, but Madrigal reminded us that it will take a new kind of writer to create content for these devices. Check it out:
To me, in the extremely attention-limited environment of augmented reality, you need a new kind of media. You probably need a new noun to describe the writing. Newspapers have stories. Blogs have posts. Facebook has updates. And AR apps have X. You need people who train and get better at and have the time to create perfect digital annotations in the physical world. Fascinatingly, such a scenario would require the kind of local knowledge newspaper reporters used to accumulate, and pair it with the unerring sense of raw interestingness that the best short-form magazine writers, bloggers, tweeters, and Finderyers cultivate.
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Need some help keeping your National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project organized?
We asked the Google Docs team for some suggestion on how to use the free suite of online writing tools during NaNoWriMo. We’ve collected five ways you can use Google Docs below.
This is our second NaNoWriMo Tip of the Day. As writers around the country join the writing marathon this month, we will share one piece of advice or writing tool to help you cope with this daunting project.
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Perfect Market chief revenue officer Tim Ruder has helped writers at media companies around the country create a stronger online footprint. At the AllFacebook Marketing Conference this week, he shared a crucial piece of intelligence for writers: your Google+ profile can help your online writings get noticed.
Google can connect stories you have published online with your Google+ profile, attaching your name, profile and picture to search results for your writing. Ruder explained: “Social brings a level of trust to results that is really powerful … Trust is shifting from publisher to little face–the picture of someone beside an article. That is a pretty indelible stamp of trust.”
Below, we’ve outlined the steps you need to take to connect your Google+ profile with your Google search results.
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Hands down, the Internet beats the old days when writers had to go to the library to research a topic. Now anyone can retrieve information with a few computer clicks. I frequently use Google in my searches and have discovered the following ways to improve results:
- Use the asterisk (*) as a wild card with the words you’re searching. For example, if you wanted to search for me on the Web but couldn’t remember my last name but knew I was a children’s author, you could type Ronica * children’s author and related sites would pop up, providing my last name.
- Use the minus sign before words you want to exclude from the search. Using a similar example, if you searched solely on my first name, Ronica, and a bunch of “Ronica Smith” sites showed up, you could eliminate Ronica Smith from your search by typing Ronica -Smith.
- Put quotation marks around a word or two (such as “Ronica Stromberg”) to pull up sites only with the word (or words) as quoted.
- To find the word you’re searching for on a Web site that came up, hit Control-F (Command-F on a Mac) and enter the word you’re searching for again. This will highlight the word you’re searching for. I’ve found this useful when a Web site has page after page of text but no clear indication where the word or phrase I’m searching for may be.
- To restrict search results to a specific URL, add site: in front of the URL. For example, dognapper site:nytimes.com would pull articles printed about dognappers at The New York Times domain.
- To find sites similar to one you’re using, type related: before the URL of the site (as in related:nytimes.com).
- Use two periods between numeric ranges to find information about a range. For example, if you wanted to find information about gasoline prices between 1970 and 1980, you could type gasoline prices 1970 . . 1980. Writers of historical novels may find this particularly useful for research.
- To use Google as a dictionary and look up the definition of a word, type define: immediately followed by the word.
- To find the current weather in a town (in case you are about to set off on a book talk or other trip), type weather in followed by the town’s name.
- To convert currency or measurements, use search formats such as 50 pesos in US dollars or 100 kilometers in miles.
- To find the title of a song that lyrics come from, type some of the more distinct lyrics followed by :lyric. For example, when I type want to be a paperback writer:lyric, several sites appear, letting me know this line of lyrics comes from the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” song.
- To get alerted about breaking news on a topic, go to http://www.google.com/alerts and enter the topic and your e-mail address. Google will then e-mail you the next time news on the topic appears on the Internet. I know a lot of authors type their name or key words from their works into this site to track online publicity and, also, to check whether their writing is being plagiarized.
Instead of doing a general search of the whole Internet, I may have only a specific area I want to search. The following are my favorites.
blogs http://www.google.com/blogsearch
books http://books.google.com/
finance http://www.google.com/finance This search of the latest financial news may be of particular interest to business and financial writers.
images http://images.google.com This site can be misleading. When I searched on “F. Scott Fitzgerald,” the name of one of my favorite authors, photos of him–and a bunch of other people–cropped up. Had I not already known what F. Scott Fitzgerald looked like, the site wouldn’t have helped much.
news http://news.google.com/
patents http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts
videos http://www.google.com/videohp
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Who will win the Oscars for best adapted screenplay and screenplay? Below, we’ve linked to all the nominees in the top writing categories.
On Monday morning, this GalleyCat editor will talk about the screenplay winners along with a team of Oscar experts in a Google+ hangout. Here’s more about the virtual event:
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As I write this, I’m more or less barricaded by book carts at my desk. The culprit? A reorganization project in the literature section, started by my term three student intern. Term four began on Monday, which means if I want the project finished, I’m actually going to have to do some work myself. The goal of the project? To reorganize much of the 800s so that students can easily walk to the stacks and find both works by a particular author or poet and criticism on that same author or poet, all in the same place.
There’s been much debate on my state organization’s listserv about “neighborhood” shelving (sometimes also called “bookstore” organization) versus Dewey or Library of Congress. Staunch DDC and LOC defenders insist we must prepare teens for academic libraries and teach them how to use catalogs efficiently. Where’s the authority control in a neighborhood system? Who determines the genres? What about books that might arguably “belong” in more than one place? What happens to a new librarian who inherits inscrutable rules and neighborhoods?
And, more importantly, who cares?
When I was in college, my favorite professor used to recommend to his students that we search Amazon first when we were exploring topics. Do a search on Amazon first, he’d say, to find out what’s out there, then look for individual titles on the university’s library catalog. He insisted that Amazon was better at subject searching, and he was right. And not to brag or anything, but we’re talking about one of the most prestigious library systems in the world.
Much like wandering into a catalog that isn’t searching the way a user is thinking, walking into stacks that aren’t organized intuitively–no matter how much helpful the signage–can be extremely frustrating. I upgraded my automation system this year and I think the catalog is greatly improved–much more visual, easy to customize, an actual OPAC option rather than a strictly in-house catalog–but students still have to navigate to the catalog (which usually means logging into one of the library computers, a task sadly on par in length and excitement with watching paint dry).
And that’s not what they want to do.
They want to either walk right into the stacks and find what they’re looking for, or ask me “Where are the…?” and get a simple answer. Tsk, tsk! Bad, lazy students! Must learn boolean operators! Must be trained to search by author or subject! Must understand how cutters work to find a book on the shelf!
But why?
Why, when virtually every other search model–from Google to Netflix to the layout of most commercial stores–is designed to cater to the way a user wants to search (and even improve its own algorithms or methods to better answer user queries), do libraries keep insisting that users should learn our language? Why is our organization better than the one our teens imagine?
To be clear, I’m not going to stop doing catalog instruction, or teaching my students search strategies for everything from Google to our (often arcane) databases. I want them to be savvy searchers. My job is to help them be efficient and innovative information consumers. But I also want to teach them that what they want matters, that they shape the world around them by the way they interact with it, that companies and colleges and online services are all competing to understand them better.
So I’m going to work on my barricade of book carts, and keep adding green dots to the spines of science fiction and fantasy titles, and work on displays and signage that are better descriptors and signposts for the shelves beneath them. Because I want my students to know the library is their library, not just mine.
Google will discontinue its reseller program that allows independent bookstores to sell eBooks through Google’s platform. Starting on January 31, 2013, Google Play will be the only way to purchase eBooks through Google.
Google explained in a post: “With the launch of Google eBooks in 2010, we introduced a multi-faceted approach to selling ebooks: online, on devices, through affiliates and through resellers. One part of that effort — the reseller program — has not gained the traction that we hoped it would, so we have made the difficult decision to discontinue it by the end of January next year.”
ABA president Oren J. Teicher conveyed the news in an email to members today. We’ve reprinted the email below–more information will be forthcoming this afternoon.
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Google has told the American Booksellers Association (ABA) that the company will discontinue its reseller program allowing independent bookstores to sell eBooks through Google’s platform.
Starting on January 31, 2013, Google Play will be the only way to purchase eBooks through Google.
ABA president Oren J. Teicher conveyed the news in an email to members today. We’ve reprinted the email below–more information will be forthcoming this afternoon.
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Today trending on Reuters, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Houston Business Chronicle and Sacramento Bee, Fox Directory, the web directory established in favor of a more open-source, digitally unified Google page rank system, released it’s first press release. Creative Mac and the Boston Globe have also picked up the story with the Atlanta Business Chronicle. PR NewsWire has pledged to keep this important digital news information release on their servers for the forseeable future.
The changes in status and contents of the American television are unavoidably part of the country’s history of rapid growth in broadcast communication. The need to assess this medium is timely, although such assessment here is limited to a particular aspect – the problems. It would be very wrong or rather strange that the story of the American television be assessed in isolation of its expected responsibilities, functions and the already achieved successes. In retrospect, the primary motives of television in America are to foster national unity, accelerate development, supplement education programmes, foster interest in the world like Digg around us and encourage entertainment. These are to be achieved through the use of studio, videotape recordings, DVD sales and films. In pursuing the above goals there are obvious problems facing the American television and these have contributed immensely to its failures in many ways. However, the concern of this paper is just where does the American television fit? Internal lines of communication within an organization are of particular importance.
The most difficult part of communication is establishing contact between management and employees in order to achieve industrial relations programme. Everybody in industry, whether managers, shop stewards or workers, pays lip service to the desirability of improving communication in order to tmderstand each others’ problems and viewpoints better. Securing this desirable result even for major German media outlets is very difficult. To improve and maintain industrial relations requires constant and intelligent application by the representatives of both management and employees.
The observations of the social scientists have confirmed the findings of practical experience that the motivation of people in industry is of the utmost. When we know why people !p on strike we shall be well on the way to preventing such action. We are only just beginning to apply sociological and psychological techniques to observe individual and group behaviour in industry and to isolate the reasons for apparent irrational behaviour. Any industrial relations programme such as that urged to be reconsidered by Fox
Google has released a new business eBook called Mobile Playbook: The Busy Executive’s Guide to Winning with Mobile.
AppNewser has more: “The book is a business person’s guide to connecting with consumers using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The book explores the issue of how mobile changes a company’s value proposition and looks at everything from digital destinations to marketing.”
Here is more from the book: “Our goal is to help companies at all levels of mobile sophistication and experience to adopt the concrete mobile strategies that can help you win – and we don’t just mean, win in mobile. This space isn’t a sandbox anymore; the mobile revolution is sailing ahead at full steam, and your customers are on board.”
Checkout the website version of the Playbook here and download the free eBook here.
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Google wants the Authors Guild to drop their bookscanning lawsuit against them. Yesterday, the company told U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan that the guild cannot represent “the owners of book’s copyrights.”
Bloomberg has the story: “Google said in court papers that because the guild doesn’t claim to own the copyrights at issue, it can’t sue on behalf of authors. Google’s lawyer also said today that the company’s scanning project has been an ‘economic benefit’ to many authors.”
The Author’s Guild, who has filed a class action lawsuit against Google seeking statutory damages on behalf of the authors who wrote the millions of books scanned into Google’s digital library, stands by their suit. Bloomberg has more: “‘It would be a terrible burden on the court if each individual author was forced to litigate,’ Joanne Zack, a lawyer for the Authors Guild, told the judge. ‘A class action is superior.’”
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The French Publishers’ Association has reached a deal with Google Books which will allow Google to scan copies of out-of-print texts. According to a report in The New York Times,
Google has agreed to work with French authors and publishers to set up a way for them to sell these eBooks through Google Books.
Here is more from The New York Times: “The deal is modeled on agreements that Google struck separately with two leading French publishers, Hachette and La Martinière. Under all of these agreements, the publishers retain control over many conditions of the book-scanning project, including which titles are made available.” continued…
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Today Google introduced a $199 Nexus 7 tablet. At the presentation, Google presenters highlighted the 7-inch tablet’s best qualities as eBook reading device (video embedded above)–including a new service that will recommend books for the individual tablet user.
AppNewser has more details about pricing, specs and content on the new device.
Here’s more from PC Mag: “the tablet will come pre-loaded with the Transformers Dark of the Moon movie, the Bourne Domination book, and issues of magazines like Popular Science, Food Network, and Conde Nast Traveler, among others … The tablet will include a new recommendation engine via widgets on the home screen that will serve up app, book, or movie options. If you’re not interested, just dismiss it. Google promised that the recommendations will become smarter over time, the more you watch, listen, or read.”
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Eight years after the apex of techno-utopian celebration, a number of large platforms have come to dominate a social media ecosystem vastly different from when the platforms just started to evolve. It’s time for a reality check. What did social media do for the public — users like you — and for the ideal of a more democratic public space? Do they indeed promote connectedness and participation in community-driven activities or are they rather engines of connectivity, driven by automated algorithms and invisible business models? Online socializing, as it now seems, is inimically mediated by a techno-economic logic anchored in the principles of popularity and winner-takes-all principles that enhance the pervasive logic of mass media instead of offering alternatives.
I’ll check out some of these links.
I’m trying to grow things. It’s neat to see plants sprouting.
Thank you for sharing Edi! Best of luck to you! : )
Thank you for the shout out for Jimmy Liao’s Gallery – and for all these links.