My lovely publishers A&C Black sent me an advance copy of my book. It’s a huge moment for me personally – feels like getting exam results through a bit: the culmination of a lot of work over a lot of time and something tangible, real and useful in your hands.
In the spirit of all things geek, I thought I would have some fun and do an "un-boxing" set of pics, like people do whenever they are first to get their mits on a new iPhone or nice bit of kit.
Just got home from the CIM event in London and the first copy of my book was waiting for me.
Absolutely exultant…
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These are the slides from a presentation about Me & My Web Shadow I gave to my company’s clients at an event on Friday.
There should be audio up soon on the iCrossing site too…
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…The Wire Series 2, according to Amazon.
Congratulations if you have pre-ordered the UK edition of the book – you have excellent taste
Since I took this screengrab, Anathem by Neal Stephenson and Blink by Malcom Gladwell have been added to the “People Who Bought” section. Me and My Web Shadow is in good company!
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Oh my. Maybe if you get RSI you can do some speed-typing on your forearms as a kind of massage!
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The video below is a speech at TED by?Tim Berners-Lee on how open data around the world is being used from bike lanes in London to elections in Afghanistan. Thrilling to watch…
Open-mapping visualisations and how, after the earthquake, the Open Street Map of Port-au-Prince in Haiti quickly became *the* most accurate map of city following [...]
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to [...]
The fact that Comparethemarket.com’s Meerkat iPhone app is charged for rather than free is quite cool. That it is in the UK’s top grossing list on the iTunes store shows it is a revenue stream for the company in its own right.
That brand/creative/franchise is clearly taking on a life of its own… Other brand [...]
Off to the printers!
It’s official: Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online is in print production right now… H’rah!
Here’s a shot of the cover that the publisher shared with me…
US publication date is now June
Me and My Web Shadow’s US launch is now set for June, pushed back slightly from [...]
Facebook yesterday added a welcome feature to its privacy controls: the ability to control who sees different types of content you share via applications.
The example Facebook’s blog used was sharing a greetings card via an app like someecards – maybe you don’t want everyone in your network to see your hilarious design.
Perhaps it will also [...]
