Unlock Your Inner Artist: Book Three

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin
The third book in the “Inner Arstist” series is from marketing guru, Seth Godin.  Seth has been well ahead of the curve on this whole “Internet/Marketing thing” for years, and Tribes is no exception.  This isn’t the marketing you learned about in school.
Tribes explains how small groups [...]

Unlock Your Inner Artist: Book Two

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Stephen Pressfield
Oh no.  Not another book about writing!  Well, if you still think Book One is just about writing, I blew it.  Sorry about that, and I hope you don’t leave here thinking this one is just another writing book.
This year I [...]

Unlock Your Inner Artist: Book One

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
Did I lose you already?  Stephen King?  A book about writing?  Stay with me.  There’s much more here than a scary tale or a style guide.
The first part of the book is autobiographical and fun to read. It’s also inspiring to see a guy that lived in [...]

Amazon Updates Kindle Firmware

Just caught this on the Twitter feed from @thurrott:
Amazon Updates Kindle 2: Now with 85 Percent Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support.
Pretty promising and I’m waiting for the update to come down now.  Here’s how to update your Kindle 2 firmware:

Check to make sure you don’t already have the latest firmware.

Select “Settings” from the [...]

Three Books to Unlock Your Inner Artist

This is the time of year that a lot of people start to “reflect” and plan for greater things. Over those shared vacation weeks we make notes. During family gatherings ideas get bounced around. We say, “things are going to be different next year.” All that kind of stuff.
Through blogs, we’re [...]

Author Andy Ihnatko does the CBS Morning Show

Up and at them!  I caught a tweet from @ihnatko bright and early Saturday morning announcing an appearance on the CBS Early Show.  The El Gato was fired up and caught the whole thing – lucky timing.  Andy’s new edition of iPhone Fully Loaded is coming in December (according to the Amazon pub date). [...]

Pogue & Carr on eBook Readers

Together, David Pogue and David Carr look at the latest ebook readers for a New York Times “Holiday Guide” video.  A transition to ebooks (and their readers) is underway, and this time it seems very real this time (as evidenced by the Kindles and Sony eReaders I see on the subway).  For tech books, I’m still [...]

Outliers: Stories of Success and Certain Doom.

Now on his fourth bestseller, Malcolm Gladwell a publishing superstar. His books are recommended by everyone from Kevin Rose to the New York Times. Late to the party, I just finished Outliers: The Story of Success, released about a year ago and has remained on the bestseller lists since (maybe to get [...]

Ihnatko chooses BADASS

During this week’s Audible commercial on the MacBreak Weekly podcast/netcast, Andy Ihnatko chose a book that was definitely under the Techshelf radar, but looks like it could be right up the leisurely reading alley: Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live.
Andy gave a nice [...]

Confessions of a Berkun lecture attendee

The School of Visual Arts was kind enough to host author Scott Berkun, and allow any schlub off the street to attend.  Wanting to be prepared, I grabbed the Kindle version of Scott’s latest book, CONFESSIONS OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER, and managed to make it about 20% of the way through before the talk.
The talk [...]

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