From Steve Woodward on the Nozzl Media blog:
We’ve gotten more than 60 responses to our survey on a next-generation “newspaper,” and I wanted to share the preliminary results, which are revealing. The feature that people crave most is a filter. People want less information, not more. But they want that information to be relevant, not noise.
This is just part of what I was trying to get at earlier with my post on minimalism. Good to see it’s supported by user feedback.
From the always good Seth Godin:
Isn’t it odd that were willing to spend $300,000 to buy an accredited but ultimately useless academic line on our resume, but we hesitate to do a month of hard work to create a chunk of experience thats priceless?
This is the whole reason why I got involved with CoPress. Even when I wasn’t an actual team member it was fun work that taught me invaluable lessons about the web, college media, and small companies. I wouldn’t trade it for a thing.
From the otherwise stellar Seed Magazine article on organic foods:
So here we have a nicely delimited study of available research with rigorous standards and a fairly worded conclusion, all publicly available to download and read on the FSA website.
Well if it’s so publicly available and downloadable then why can’t you take the time to link to it? The author (web editor?) took the time to go through and link to such blogs as Food Politics, Matthew Yglesias, and more but linking to the study that the article centers around? No, that’d be too much to ask.
Published in the New York Times yesterday:
In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.
Then, if you read a little further down the article you come across this:
Besides giving students a new option, rentals give both publishers and textbook authors a way to continue earning money from their books after the first sale, something they do not get from the sale of used textbooks.
Bingo, there’s the rationale behind why these book publishers are doing this: they’re hoping for a renewable revenue stream.
No, it doesn’t seem as though the publishers have suddenly found a soul and decided to stop gouging students on books, it’s just that they’re going to gouge them in a slightly different way and under the guise of providing a more economical option to the student.
