As I’ve mentioned before, I hate write-your-email-in-the-subject emails. Now that LifeHacker asks the questions once again, I’m ready with an answer.
Now, the question from my side is: should we repeat and promote such discussions once in a while to let the rest of the world know what we think, or should we quietly avoid them, not to give any ideas to the wrong-doers?
Of course, to each his her own, but to me this looks like blog extremism.
My blog and I are a package deal. If you want to be in my life, you’re going to be in my blog. If you don’t want to be in my blog… don’t be in my life.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-09-02
This guest posting in Google Blog mentions an interesting service – Lulu.com.
The book is self-published with Lulu.com, an interesting service. Basically, Lulu allows you to upload your Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer file along with your cover, and then convert it to a print-on-demand book. If you pay a little extra, your book will also appear on Amazon. The process ain’t free of headaches but I gotta say, it’s worth it. Lulu will also make sure the book’s findable through Google Book Search.
If you are about to unleash your creativity and brain power in the printed way and unto the world, chech this out. It might save you a hair or two…
Here is an example of things to come. The world is changing in so many interesting ways that it’s difficult to catch up with most…
The best market example I know is digital photography. Who is a digital photo “consumer” any more? Nobody consumes film, and relatively few consume print processing. Instead everybody is a producer in that marketplace. I have close to eleven thousand pictures up on Flickr now. From the start Flickr (a terrific Linux/LAMP hack) and I have both understood that those pictures are my data, and that the two of us are making the most of that fact. Same goes for Tabblo*, a new company that does stuff with photos that Flickr doesn’t. Because Flickr has open APIs, and welcomes customers who also work with other vendors, I am able to make montages for printing and sharing, on Tabblo’s site, with my Flickr photosets. As a result, Flickr, Tabblo and I all make money off each other, and enjoy productive symbiotic relationships that grow the new photography marketplace.
Meanwhile, where is Kodak, owner of one of the world’s largest patent portfolios and leader of the photography industry since the dawn of the category? You tell me. Where I contribute to the market, their name almost never comes up.