Telling Stories
I don’t normally post powerpoints, but this is relevant. Five Big Trends that Will Rock the Future of Publishing View more presentations from Smashwords, Inc. five-big-trends-that-will-rock-the-future-of-publishing from...
I’ve always had a fondness for steampunk, and an appreciation for the esthetic it presents, but the truth is (if you want me to be honest) I...
Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg died recently. While I didn’t know much about him before, I have in recent years become quite the fan of...
The worst case scenario in the Gulf Oil Crisis may in fact be the reality: http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2010/06/worst_case_scenario_on_gulf_sp.php So what happens if this is true, and there’s no way...
Who’s calling the shots in the BP oil spill? It sure ain’t the US Gov’t. The American gov’t is working hard at the leisure of the BP...
This is one of those stories that was obvious from the beginning- if one (since Yahoo barely counts anymore) company controls how people seek information, then they...
In a place where women dutifully give birth in dingy huts, the men know of little outside their fields, and the world revolves around the local mosque;...
Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, is the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Unlike Hollywood and Bollywood, however, Nollywood movies are made on shoe-string budgets of...
I recently read The Scarlet Pimpernel (text, audio, movie) by Baroness Orczy, and ran into a bit of an interesting philosophical quandry while I was reading it....
What do Avatars, Actors and Porn Stars all have in common? All of them are looking for the perfect facial expression. The other week when listening to...