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Bookmarks for February 17th

  • I Am Dave Allen – Thinking – Radiohead and research versus media companies and the iPad – Or how a rock band schooled Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson.

    On February 14th Radiohead announced the release of their new album The King of Limbs. You can pre-order it here if you're so inclined.

    I was reading a brief article today in which the band's manager was quoted as saying – “Our allegiances are to the band. We manage Radiohead, we don’t manage retail or labels, we just manage the band and are just trying to do the best possible thing to allow another brilliant record to be embraced by the fanbase.” I like that sentiment for many reasons.

    Something else I read recently that I like for many reasons is this – "Society is engaged in the present with solving problems of the past." That's a quote by the social scientist Jonathan Haidt taken from a NY Times article in February. In a TEDx talk that I gave last week at the University of Oregon's White Stag building in Portland, I paraphrased Haidt's quote – "Rupert Murdoch is engaged in the present in solving the financial problems of print media companies."
    Tags: tech

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Bookmarks for February 2nd

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Bookmarks for January 26th

Links for January 26th:

  • Q: Does the SunChips bag really break down in a Compost Heap? – A: Not really, at least not in any home compost heap.
    Green
  • my digital comics – More Digital Comics
    digital comics
  • DriveThruComics.com – The First Download Comic Shop – Because they have 2000AD and Archaia
    comics digital
  • Drawn – “The advice I like to give young artists, or… – Every artist should have this posted over their easel, drawing bard, whatever….

    The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
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