Blog vs. Book. Tagable vs. Tangible, Dynamic vs. Analog.
It isn’t as hard or as impossible as it may seem…Blurb (an online publisher), allows you to slurp (upload/import) content from your blog and then translate it into a multi page book. The online publisher provides free software called BookSmart (crossplatform mac/pc) as well as several tutorial [...]

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Ok if you’re addicted to this, then I commiserate. I love global stats and graphs and history… I could spend all day at Gapminder. It’s a beautifully simple way of looking for relationships between important (or weird) data. You can even make movies to show your graph changing over time.  You’ve can plot useful info [...]

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As Billy Joel sang Saturday night, “There’s no business like shoe business.” Overall I can’t say that the World Shoe Association seemed like a great show in Vegas. I think MAGIC, a week earlier, would have been a better trip. Luckily the materials show adjacent to it was eye opening. If anything, most of what [...]

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