Unquiet Desperation

Authors are now publishing their own books without a publisher. And some artists are releasing free audiobooks online, making money just like Radiohead or shareware software authors: via that old standby, The Tip Jar. You, the consumer, pay what you think is fair. The artist keeps every cent (or the vast majority of it) without [...]

“Stop that! It’s a banana, not a glue stick!”
“Don’t lick the cheese grater!”
“Stop sitting on the cat!”
Ho-hum.

Check this out. This was lunch at Mahalo Today. Wait for a while, and you’ll see something really interesting happen as Jason asks the folks watching on Qik to digg one of our articles.

As I find articles or posts about this, I’ll post them below:

http://www.andydesoto.com/?p=5

From Neil Gaiman’s blog:
Feel free to spread the link as widely as possible around the web. If it works, and people read it, then a) we may be able to put up another book and b) sooner or later they’ll simply let us give away the book in electronic form….
In my estimaton, American Gods is [...]

Much fun on the flash fiction front1 from 365 Tomorrows:
Dear Fontilibus Corporation rescue crew, space explorers, other would be rescuers, or whom it may concern,

How are you?

Good, I hope. Whether or not you’ve found my remains,it should be clear to you that I’ve been better. If I were alive, we would be talking right now [...]

Once you start playing in the world of data, it’s hard to turn off the part of your brain that examines how various independent streams of data can be mixed, matched, sliced and diced to glean meaning. The world is rife with data to be mined, and our magnificent brains handle it with such [...]

[via Mahalo Daily]

Found this thanks to the Open Media Review blog:

This video highlights the immense shift in norms, that the average person, at least in the currently upcoming generation, doesn’t see any moral dilemma with sharing. I’m guessing this has something to do with the success of creators who get that and don’t get hung up [...]

The people I work with are brilliant.

Embedded Video

Check out this interview with Bug Labs at CES. This has to be the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Imagine…once they have an audio module, you could have a programmable, mobile podcasting plaform. Take that to the next step with video and GPS, and you can be posting geocoded data. Add [...]