Ihnatko on the CBS Morning Show

Internationally beloved tech writer, Andy Ihnatko was on the CBS Early Show on Saturday (1.23.10).  It was pretty early, so in case you missed it, I caught it with the trusty El Gato. Speculating on what Apple is going to announce/release this week, Andy is in the camp that this will revolutionize the publishing [...]

Jeff Jarvis & the King of All Media

Many of us know Jeff Jarvis from his book, What Would Google Do?, and from This Week in Google from the TWiT network, but today, worlds collided.  I was listening to the 1/14/10 Howard Stern replay and I heard a very familiar voice.  Sure enough, it was Jeff Jarvis on the Stern Show!  I pulled [...]

New 70% Royalty Option from Amazon

We saw it coming.  The soon to be biggest book publisher in the world, Amazon.com announced a new deal for authors and publishers today.  Starting June 30, 2010, if you choose to publish your book on the Kindle, you’ll get a 70% royalty.  That sure beats the standard publishing contract, right (7-15%)?  Here are some [...]

LINCHPIN Unboxing!

Hot off the press and before you can buy it, I just got a review copy of Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?.  It just came in about 15 minutes ago so we don’t have a proper review ready for you yet, but we do have what may be the very first “unboxing” [...]

DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

A lot of us have experienced what Dan Pink covers in his new book, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.  You know that feeling inside that sometimes goes like this “maybe this job is a waste of time and I should do something else”, or “my day completely disappeared – this doesn’t even [...]