Core Dump 2.0

Featured links for the week of April 30, 2012:

• David Brin explains how to win the war on facts, get those fools to put their money where their mouth is.
• The death of genre, Charlie Stross opines that SF as a genre is dying and explains why.
• Annealing the library, do libraries need to become patrons of culture?
• Death of the Document, founder of Author-It talks about the future of documentation.
• Make your sentences slim (by removing 35 wordy phrases), I have a longer list at work but this is a good start to clear writing.

Featured links for the week of April 23, 2012:

• For the billionaire who has everything, a spaceship. Heinlein did it first with D. D. Harriman.
• BlogTO profiles Toronto Type, a website that profiles typography around Toronto.
• For those who still need to deal with its files, a Ventura Publisher FAQ (PDF link).
• The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is online, and it has an extensive financial glossary.
• The Publishers Association joint statement on accessibility and ebooks, with links to resources.

Featured links for the week of April 16, 2012:

• A Los Angeleno looks at transit in LA, Toronoto, and Montreal, we don’t come out too badly.
• The link between inequality and instability, inequality means more instability, not less.
• How a copyright case helped kill Men at Work musician Greg Ham, this is sad.
• Tennessee vs. Arizona, sadly this is not a sports story.
• Interactive eBook Apps: The Reinvention of Reading and Interactivity.

Featured links for the week of April 09, 2012:

• Charlie Stross on the future of eBooks – DRM is dead (or will have to be if publishers want to survive).
• The 2012 Hugo Award short story nominees, free for your reading.
• Daily Dose of Imagery by Sam Jananrouh, one of the best photographers I’ve come across in a long time.
• The obligatory Titanic link, how James Cameron converted his movie into 3D.
• For all you young’uns out there, a working version of Google as a 1980s BBS (yes, they were that slow!)
• Examples of colour traps for the colour blind, click on an example to see the problem (assuming you’re not colour blind, of course).

Featured links for the week of March 26, 2012:

• Kobo to start its own publishing division, joining Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
• Maps to help keep you on top of Game of Thrones.
• A full multiplayer role playing game, done just using HTML5.
• Nifty trick, use Google Docs to monitor your web site’s up time.
• Quality Metrics for Technical Writers, how to measure good, not just fast.
• 20 Cats as Fonts, more typographic humour.