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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 11/03/2008

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Eoin Purcell

Flickr Photo of the day: From Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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An Adoption Agency for Orphaned Works [Hat Tip Adam]
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More on what they have planned for us at Tor
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Ficlets won a web award at SXWS [Hat Tip John Scalzi]
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire is due out on 1 April, David Maybury has his already!
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Speaking of which, Skullduggery has a nice site attached to it
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A pretty decent speech by Gail Rebuck, chief executive of the Random House Group.
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A lot of stuff today!
Eoin

Scribd looks cool

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Multi-authored Text
Experiments with wiki-text, networked books and multi-authored texts have been going well. Penguin have had the most high profile effort with their Million Penguins wikinovel. Last week I highlighted Ficlets which takes the idea of multi-authored texts to a news slick level allowing prequels and sequels to already written shorts [Speaking of which this one on Caesar caught my eye]

The future is Scribd
Techcrunch carried an interesting piece today discussing the early success of one of the more interesting new arrivals to this space Scribd. You can upload, search for and read documents on Scribd and it also allows for an embed function but I cannot seem to make that work on wordpress.com. What it lacks is online editing of documents. I can see how this seems a retrograde step in some regards but will certainly encourage people to post their content. Techcrunch also has some interesting points re copyright. It is a fascinating site with very nice features. One I found on DIY Book Binding is worth a look as is so much more.

Enjoying the break still
Eoin