Here’s an interesting new book I just stumbled across, Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World. It’s from Adaptive Path (a sort of web “interactive agency” on steroids). Very “on topic” for me, so I’ve just ordered it.
Here’s the blurb and a couple reviews:
“Short, but powerful. Easy to read, yet [...]
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Posted in 2K, Indie filmmaking, NLE, Red Camera, Scarlet, books, film editing, free, freeware, high-definition on Thursday, 10 April 2008, 1:44 pm | No Comments »
FreshDV has a good roundup of free NLE software. As in, you have no excuse not to make that movie now! To assist you, check out Making Short Films, by Clifford Thurlow, which I just received today from amazon UK. Looks great. Now all you need is a Red Scarlet camera, (which I’ve speculated on [...]
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An ad in the latest edition of the New York Review of Books alerted me to an about-to-be released new edition of Clifford Thurlow’s Making Short Films:
Paperback edition on Amazon US for US$13.57, released 15 April 08
Hardcover edition on Amazon US for US$94.95, available now
Paperback edition on Amazon UK for £12.3, available now
Thurlow’s a writer, [...]
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Amazon’s cross-selling engine alerted me to this book, Groudswell: Winning in a World Transformed By Social Technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, available on Amazon 21 April 2008.
Judging from an article by the authors in MIT Sloan Management Review, while it may have the lowdown on ‘groundswelling’ it’s not exactly groundbreaking. But, nevertheless, it [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0, blogs, books on Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 8:44 pm | No Comments »
I read this book review on nine recent books on blogs by Sarah Boxer, on the plane to Beijing a couple weeks ago, in the (gloriously newsprint) New York Review of Books. It puts blogs in their social, intellectual and historical context, explaining how they’re different from other forms of writing and their social impact. [...]
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Posted in Garr Reynolds, Hans Rosling, Keynote, Powerpoint, Tufte, Web 2.0, YouTube, books, cheesy, collaborative software, gapminder, google, office suite, online office apps, presentations, screenwriting software on Sunday, 3 February 2008, 8:01 pm | 2 Comments »
Having just spent two weeks working on Powerpoints for a client, I’ve been thinking about presentations.
Clearly the best presentations are ones that teach you something new, in a new way, while entertaining you. But if you’re reporting on last month’s sales figures to your boss, or trying to close a deal selling complex software more [...]
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I had sometime to kill, before watching the late show of the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men at the Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 theater in Portland last night. So I walked over to Powell’s on Burnside, at 9:15 at night. What a joy. A few million books laid out in a cavernous [...]
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