Newsletter 284
Best of the Week
[1]I Got A Blank Book To Top Amazon Charts
Links:
1. http://b.rw/eY6vr6
Shed Simove | Real Business | 11 April 2011
By the author (if that is the right word) of "What Every Man Thinks About
Apart From Sex". Every page of this self-published book is completely and
utterly blank, yet it has become a best-seller on Amazon. Herewith the
secret sauce [2]Comments
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2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-got-blank-book-top-amazon-charts
[3]But First ...
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3. http://b.rw/hGfOQv
Scott Adams | Dilbert | 14 April 2011
On filing for taxes, and other dealings with bureaucracy. "I could hire a
business manager to handle that stuff. But no one in his right mind would
take on such an ugly job unless he was planning to do some serious
embezzling" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/first
[5]The Bugger, Bugged
Links:
5. http://b.rw/eb9w7t
Hugh Grant | New Statesman | 12 April 2011
A real gem. Hugh Grant turns investigative journalist to unravel the
mysteries of the News International mobile hacking saga. Unexpectedly
fascinating read from start to finish. Thanks to @polit2k for this great
spot [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bugger-bugged
[7]Tipping: An Excuse For Slavery?
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7. http://b.rw/fWsv4W
John Birmingham | Brisbane Times | 14 April 2011
Model of how to write short, sharp newspaper column. A simple question, a
strong writing style, some anecdotal evidence. "That rest room, it was a
marvel. If it was a person I’d say it’d been scrubbed until its bellybutton
shined" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tipping-excuse-slavery
[9]Are You Following A Bot?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/fv4u84
Andy Isaacson | Atlantic | 15 April 2011
Three teams produce competing "social bots" (fake users) to infiltrate
Twitter. Think of it like a Turing Test for Twitter. Result? Fake users gain
lots of followers and become trusted sources. Worrying implications all
round [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-you-following-bot
[11]Bridgewater's Billion-Dollar Aphorisms
Links:
11. http://b.rw/eM9pHH
Kevin Roose | New York | 10 April 2011
Meet Bridgewater Associates, $94bn hedge fund that feels like a cult.
Employee manual "reads as if Ayn Rand and Deepak Chopra had collaborated on
a line of fortune cookies". They're clean, they're weird, they make tons of
money [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bridgewaters-billion-dollar-aphorisms
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Timothy Garton Ash on The History of the Present
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-garton-ash-on-history-present
Historian and journalist Timothy Garton Ash describes the "mongrel genre"
between reportage and scholarship and says using the historian’s tools to
analyse the present is a vital undertaking
Featured Topic
[14]Financial Crisis
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles
Reader Recommendations
@ed_corn WSJ on 21st C rebels: Libyans hijacking Gadhafi’s kit to set up
their own mobile network #libya #browsings on.wsj.com/gNWfqp [15]#browsings
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15. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[16]How to Read the Bible by James L Kugel
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/how-read-bible-by-james-l-kugel
[17]James Carroll says: “Even in this secular age, the Bible is a pillar of
the Western imagination.”
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-carroll-on-jerusalem-city-peace
Video of the Day
[18]YouTube Copyright School
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/videos/youtube-copyright-school
YouTube users who post copyright stuff will henceforth have to watch this
video. Luckily, it's a fun video
Quote of the Day
[19]Thucydides, on the military
Links:
19. http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/be-a-designer
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools"
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