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Books

Manga Farming

July 5, 2010 Books

From the sustainable Otaku department. Tokyo artist Koshi Kawachi demonstrated how to use old manga to start your own urban farm. [via Pink Tentacle]

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Custom Book Jackets Drive Awareness

June 19, 2008 Books

From the folks that brought you the Day in the Life and America 24/7 photo books, comes their latest project which takes a peek inside homes across America. As they have done in the past, they are offering custom book jackets and they have a cool little app where you can upload a photo and [...]

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David Weinberger on the Miscellaneous

May 15, 2007 Books

One of the great things about working at Yahoo is that on any given week there’s a brown bag lunch with someone interesting or provocative. Posters around campus promote these bigger draws and I subscribe to an internal mailing list which lets me know of the others. I try and make it to as many [...]

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Richard Scarry’s Cultural Commentary

November 23, 2005 Books

Flickr user Alan Taylor finds some interesting differences between his 1963 edition of Richard Scarry’s book and the more recent version he got for his kids. Annotated photos show point out the details. The "brave hero" rescues the "beautiful screaming lady" in 1963 but in 1991 its the "fire fighter" rescues the "cat in danger."

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The New Yorker on DVD-ROM

September 15, 2005 Books

Every issue of The New Yorker since 1925 is now available on DVD-ROM for $100 from thenewyorkerstore.com. Don’t you wish they would put all these articles online via Yahoo Subscriptions or Factiva?

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Scoble’s Business Blog Book

January 8, 2005 Books

Microsoft Blogger, Robert Scoble, and seasoned PR pro, Shel Israel, are working on a new book about business blogging, The Red Couch. From their proposal to the publisher:
The Red Couch explains the why and how of blogging to business people.
Using recent case studies throughout its 250-300 pages, it will
demystify this disruptive technology and explaining why [...]

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Buzz Marketing with Blogs

January 7, 2005 Books

I haven’t had a chance to skim this yet but it should be of interest to anyone thinking of adding blogs to their marketing campaign. I hope there’s a section that says there is no quick any easy way to launch a popular blog – it really comes down to having a site that is [...]

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Library Card

November 18, 2004 Books

Now that we have a permanent address and can prove to the local library that we’re not going to pinch their books, Izumi was able to get Tyler his library card. Only one other litmus test – he needs to be able to write his own name.

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