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18 April, 2007
What have they got that I ain’t got?
Filed under:Email discoveries at13:09 this text spoken posts linked to this

A friend just alerted me to this book: Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home which it seems has shot right onto the New York Times’ bestseller list. I wrote a similar, if more ‘business-y’ book - Dealing with Email (see also at right) four years ago but alas it signally failed to make an impact on the zeitgeist. Oh well, let’s hope a rising tide lifts all boats and that I have more success with the books on blogging I hope one day to write.

P.S. I just discovered that my book has been added to Amazon’s “search within the book” programme so you can leaf through a few pages online if you like to get a feel for it (not possible with “Send”). And you might want to check out the companion website I produced for the book with more tips (as well as looking through the “email discoveries” category on this blog).

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11 April, 2007
The best is the enemy of the good - see other blog
Filed under:Arts Reviews, Broadband content, Online media, Useful web resources at18:01 this text spoken posts linked to this

Over at Media @ LSE I just posted about my experiences with Librivox - a free project to read public domain texts aloud turning them into audiobooks. I hate to criticize a bunch of people just trying to help spread the availability of classic works but… well… check out my posting…

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3 April, 2007
A friend just finished a self-produced documentary on the history and culture of nuclear weapons
Filed under:Arts Reviews, Current Affairs (US), Current Affairs (World), Interesting facts at17:14 this text spoken posts linked to this

Epicenter started as a look at those who found themselves contaminated by the radioactivity from early nuclear tests but as this trailer demonstrates his curiosity and journalistic zeal soon encouraged him to broaden his investigation and, from the looks of things, turn up all kinds of interesting stuff about the history of nuclear weapons development. Danny has sent me a DVD so once I get it I’ll tell you more…

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Media (Daily)
BBC News Online bookforum
(Weekly)
lifehacker - but I only look at their top these days. The Economist (I listen to the audio edition)
Arts & Letters Daily
The New Yorker & its cartoons

(Monthly or more infrequently)
Wired magazine
Prospect magazine (if you think The Economist is dumbed down)
Maisonneuve magazine
The Walrus
First Monday - an Internet-only peer reviewed journal of Internet studies
Gnovis - peer-reviewed journal of Communication, Culture and Technology
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
...and various other journals you can't access for free.

Virtual Communities I belong to
The Well
Brainstorms from Howard Rheingold
CIX the UK's "Well" for over 15 years
I'm also on Facebook

Comics
Doonesbury
Dilbert

Multimedia
US Public Radio
Day to Day NPR daily topical feature show inc. Slate content
BBC Radio 4 - archived for a week after broadcast
BBC Radio Drama original drama and serialised books
BBC7 radio dramas and comedy from BBC archives
The News Quiz

BBC World Service
Analysis
Assignment
Off the Shelf (serialised books)
Other non-podcast multimedia
The Daily Show biting American political satire.
Odd Todd periodically updated amusing Flash cartoons
Tales of Mere Existence excellent Quicktime animated short vignettes.
Guardian - monthly Cybercinema roundup
OneWord Radio audiobooks and author interviews

Podcasts

News/Current Affairs/Factual Thinking Allowed weekly interviews with academics
This American Life superb storytelling
LSE public lectures The University Channel guest lectures at major US universities
The Guardian's Podcasts
Slate's podcasts
From Our Own Correspondent

Fiction/drama
Escape Pod - SF short stories
Librivox - volunteer readers read classic fiction.
Craphound - Cory Doctorow reads his works
NPR book reviews

Digital Planet tech radio programme with emphasis on the developing world (now being podcast)
(also see the Go Digital special Digital Destinations) and Bill Thompson's thoughts about recent Digital Planets
IT Conversations: Blogging (broadcasts from conferences - other topics available)
NPR has a weekly tech roundup

Useful stuff
Various handy free/cheap Mac apps (updated regularly)
Online virus scanner
Free anti-virus software
Dave's Quick Search Toolbar Google taskbar on steroids
Workrave Free RSI prevention software
Powermarks Superb Windows bookmark manager ($25)
Netvouz This may be the most full-featured web bookmark manager around.
Endnote ($239 ) Great software for managing academic citations (or try one of these)
snipurl lets you share long urls easily
Mailwasher Lets you choose between several blacklists and other filtering tools to get rid of spam from multiple POP3 mailboxes - and it is free!
SpamMotel - Free disposable email addresses that let you see who is misusing the one you gave them
DigiGuide - a fast, powerful TV guide for your PC, covering the UK, US or Ireland
TotalRecorder - a powerful, inexpensive way to record streaming audio into MP3 files to take away.
QuestionPro survey software Lots of features and free for academic use.

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