Self publishing

By Ken Rubino
Whether it be ego, passion, or just a desire to disseminate information on a topic we believe we’re knowledgeable about, there is an opinionated writer inside a lot of us. The relatively recent proliferation of individual Web sites and blogs certainly demonstrates this. -->http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud011506-rubino.shtml

Do it yourself media production

Someone call Karl Marx
The means of production is in the hands of the masses and a revolution is under way

Documenting your existence used to be simple. Snap some photos. Keep a diary. Memories would gather dust in an attic, to be dug up by a future generation like lost scrolls. But now you can shoot a home movie in high definition on a small camcorder, cut it with the same software used by Oscar-winning editors, get your son's garage band to lay down a soundtrack, burn the video onto a DVD, post it on a website, send it to friends by cellphone, and promote it in a podcast that you record while driving to work. If you happen to pass a plane crash on the way home, as a "citizen journalist" you can shoot the accident scene and get it on the evening news.

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Internet power

'Little Red Book' story gets wide publicity A Standard-Times story about a UMass Dartmouth student who was visited by federal agents for requesting a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book" has received worldwide attention, thanks to the Internet. (image placeholder)The story, which appeared Saturday, discussed a student's claim that he was visited by federal agents after requesting the book through an interlibrary loan. The account was immediately picked up by numerous Web logs and chat rooms, and by Monday had reached a world-wide audience.

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Jewish book week

‘fast-becoming one of Britain’s leading literary festivals’.
Jewish Book Week 2006

25th February – 5th March 2006

Lagardere to buy Time Warner books

Lagardere to buy Time Warner books for $538 mln
LONDON/PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - French media group Lagardere has agreed to buy Time Warner's  book publishing arm for $537.5 million, fulfilling its long-standing ambition of entering the U.S. book market.  
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Ability for grammar hardwired into humans

Scientists Find Ability For Grammar Hardwired Into Humans

Researchers have long wondered why certain fundamental characteristics of grammar are present in all languages, and now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester has found evidence that these properties are built into the way our brains work. The report, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examines deaf individuals who have been isolated from conventional sign, spoken, and written language their entire lives, and yet still developed a unique form of gesture communication.

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Men and women behave differently on the internet

Men Find Experiences on the Internet; Women Prefer Human Connections
In a recently released Memo/Report on the use of the Internet by both men and women from PEWInternet, Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet Project and author of the new report, writes that men pursue many Internet activities more intensively than women, and that men still try the latest technologies first. Fallows continues, though, noting that women are catching up in overall use and are framing their online experience with a greater emphasis on deepening connections with people. Read the whole article