Plain words, uncommon sense
Ecommerce platforms for online retailers. Unbeknownst to Darren, I’ve been looking for ecommerce options. Today he posted a link to Elastic Path and some crazy videos they’ve produced to remind people that online shopping needs to be as easy as offline shopping. You can say that again.
Thanks Darren for the timely post.
And here are the wacky videos:
Book Expo America is going on this week in New York. I wish I was there listening to the brains of the industry pontificate.
Luckily they many of them have websites and blogs.
This is a really long speech, which I’ve only had time to browse. It’s not nice webcopy with pull quotes and subheads that allow for easy scanning. I’ll try to pull out the interesting bits if I have time.
End of Trade Publishing Houses by Mike Shatzkin on May 31, 2007. Presented to the 2007 Book Expo America in New York City.
Independent newspaper. Does anyone recall what that means?
The Tyee has a new campaign this summer to get 5000 new subscribers. There’s a video component and a website all about spreading the word.
I like the design but there are a couple of things that don’t work for me.
1. I like to indulge in crappy entertainment fluff, I mean news. Mocking the garbage in favour of pristine news doesn’t appeal to me, but maybe I’m not the target market.
2. In order to enter to win prizes for telling my friends, I have to send them an email using a form on the Tyee site. There’s no privacy statement. Are they going to spam my friends after? I don’t know. Why can’t this blog post count?
The part I do really like is the design of the site. Nice, clean layout. Easy to read text. And the text content is good. The video though is a little too earnest for me. Maybe we should AdHack it.
Craig Konyu of Yukon Cigar is the Track of the Day on CBC Radio 3 today.
I have musician friends. They make me feel very happy. Especially when I think about how awesome they are.
The song pick is “Hello Soul”, a little bit of dock music to move you through the rest of the week.
I missed this one early in the month, but for prosperity, Wall Street Journal reports that CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster book-publishing arm is launching an Internet book channel called Bookvideos.tv that will be hosted on YouTube.com and other video-sharing sites.
My friend Kate, of MyNameIsKate.ca, recently gave me the honour of talking about my company Work Industries and the Personal Technologist service on One Degree, which is a fabulous site for internet marketers and those who want to know more about internet marketing.
One Degree is a phenomenal resource and I’m pretty thrilled to be part of the “5 Questions” series.
You can read my interview here.
The other big news is that Kate recently bought One Degree, which was owned by Ken Schafer, VP Product Management and Marketing at Tucows.
It’s pretty exciting and you can read Kate’s post “Why I bought One Degree”.
Congratulations Kate!
So You Think You Can Write?
Orca Book Publishers Novel Contest
$5000 Cash Prize
Orca Book Publishers, publishers of outstanding books for youth and teens, are on the hunt for great Canadian fiction writers.
Orca publishes many of Canada’s most popular writers for teens:
– Eric Walters
– James Heneghan
– Carrie Mac
– Shelley Hrdlitschka
– Katherine Holubitsky
– Beth Goobie
– Don Trembath
Do you want to be added to the list?
Orca invites Canadian writers (new or established) to submit manuscripts of contemporary realistic fiction for readers aged 13 to 18.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2007.
The prize-winning novel will be announced in spring 2008 and published in fall 2008.
In case you missed what I’m saying, the prize is a publishing contract with Orca Book Publishers plus $5,000 cash.
The rules:
For complete contest details and to download a submission form, please go to Orca’s website www.orcabook.com and click on Contest.
Here is the direct link to the contest rules.
Good luck!
All in good fun, Amazon.ca is looking for the “Harry-est Town in Canada,” the Canadian town who has order the most Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows per capita.
You can track the “Harry-est Towns in Canada” at Amazon.ca/harrypotter/
The Top 10 Harry-est Towns in Canada currently are:
1. Gibsons (B.C.) (Last Week’s Rank: 1)
2. Banff (Alta.) (Last Week’s Rank: 2)
3. Bonnyville (Alta.) (Last Week’s Rank: 4)
4. Sechelt (B.C.) (Last Week’s Rank: 9)
5. Kincardine (Ont.) (Last Week’s Rank: 8)
6. Sooke (B.C.) (Last Week’s Rank: 3)
7. Port Elgin (Ont.) (Last Week’s Rank: 5)
8. Wainwright (Alta.) (Last Week’s Rank: 22)
9. Perth (Ont.) (Last Week’s Rank: 21)
10. Canmore (Alta.) (Last Week’s Rank: 10)
I received my daily CBC News digest this morning and discovered the following story:
Quote: Climate Change
The National looks at adapting to climate change.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/climatechange/roadstories.html
I was excited to read the article because I thought The National, who just did an extensive report on climate change, had decided to adapt their own new reporting practices (i.e., flying around the world–hello big footprint) in response to the devastation they saw.
I’m clearly an optimist. The article is a summary of the devastation they reported on from around the world. It’s still an interesting article, but it does’t signal any change in action from The National.
If we know we should be doing things to stop climate change, then isn’t now the time to do those things? Isn’t now the time for someone big and mainstream to say, “I’ll be the leader on that.”
I overheard an interview with David Suzuki where he said something like, “we’re in a van speeding into the path of a brick wall and instead of slamming on the brakes, we’re arguing about where we want to sit.”
Here’s what I’m doing to hit the brakes:
– shorter showers
– carpooling to work
– driving the speed limit
– turning off the computer when it’s not in use
– handwashing instead of dishwashing (except when the heathens come to dinner and I can run a full load)
– less chemicals (cleaning products, make-up, processed foods)
– buying local and fresh instead of processed and shipped from far away (although sometimes I do eat a kiwi)
– recycling and avoiding buying stuff that’s wrapped in plastic and/or styroform
– generally being aware and making good decisions as often as possible
Share what you’re doing. What would you like to do, or like others to do?
I received a press release this morning that I’ve summarized below.
Rabble.ca is holding a book launch in Second Life for Don Tapscott of Wikinomics fame.
Quote: Don Tapscott has given a lot of talks in a lot of places in his career as a writer and businessman, but never one in another world. On Tuesday April 10th at 6:00 PT (9:00 ET) Don Tapscott will appear in “avatar” form at the rabble.ca home in the virtual world of Second Life to discuss his book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Penguin).
I can’t make my Fashionista shopping day today in SL so I think a book launch tomorrow will allow me to get my SL fix for the week. Ooo, I wonder if I should try changing my hair again …
Rabble.ca is a pretty cool online space. I haven’t been to the site for awhile so this SL thing is a good reason for me to venture forth into their virtual world. The Rabble folks have developed an online book club and book lounge, and now a Second Life home on Canadian-owned “Better World Island,” which, according to the press release, also hosts CARE International, the Peace and Justice Centre, the Centre for Water Studies among other NGOs and non-profits.
Teleport to the book launch Tuesday April 10th at 6:00 PT (9:00 ET) by clicking this link:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/betterworld/116/226/30
See you there. I’ll be the one wearing curtains.
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