Sunday Morning Shards #13
On my mind and in my reading queue this week. The “Departure” Edition
Elegant Variation has a rundown of reports on the recent National Book Award winners which I have blogged about exactly zero times but has aparently been all over the news. Here’s the long and short of it: All the fiction nominees were unkowns. Publishing industry is worried that awarding unknowns is bad for business. Critics say awards are not there to help book industry sell books. Kevin thinks book industry continues to blame others for its woes and needs to take a good long look in the mirror and heal itself.
An analysis of The Incredibles (which I saw last Sunday and enjoyed) from a design perspective .
My favorite bookstore in Baltimore, Atomic Books., now has a blog run by its employees. So does Booksmith, my neighborhood bookstore in San Francisco. Rawk!
Google Scholar: A separate search engine for those looking for “scholarly material”, a distinction Google will not expound on. ResourceShelf, “Resources and News for Information Professionals” has a review (via librarian.net).
A lengthy, solid rundown of current woes and future of the music industry, courtesy of The Economist (via Digital Music Weblog).
A look at Miramax, which turns 25 this year (via ArtsJournal).
Feed Envy: noun, first definition. When bloggers feel competitive with one another over who subscribes to more RSS feeds. Here at ‘Smoke HQ, we subscribe to 146. And we are not ashamed.
I’ve been playing around with Omni Outliner, a Mac OSX note-taking program. Good for creating snazzy, dynamic To-Do Lists (via Dan Budiac).
I’m in New York this week visiting family and friends for the Thanksgiving holidays. Eat in good health, ya’ll.