via guardian.co.uk
The Sri Lankan-born author talks about how her life and fiction have been informed by a mixed heritage on both sides of a brutal conflict
Friday, 10 July 2009
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Twitter 'should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize'
According to Mark Pfeifle, a former aide to George W Bush, Twitter should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize (former winners include Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama) for it's recent role during civil unrest in Iran.
And I thought it was dubious when Al Gore won it...
Monday, 6 July 2009
DC Comics' superheroes join forces with characters inspired by Allah | World news | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk
Islamic superheroes 'The 99' to appear alongside American characters in a new collaboration between the US-based DC Comics and Kuwait's Teshkeel Comics.
Amazon mulls in-book advertising on Kindle
'Amazon is hoping to further monetise content on its Kindle ebook reader, revealing plans to place ads within the electronic books it publishes....The ads, which will be related to content in the book, such as ads for a restaurant when a character in a novel is dining out, may be in the form of one or a few descriptive advertising words, pictures, or symbols, which direct the reader to a website when an internet connection is available.'
I don't think anyone would be happy about being hit with ads while they're reading...
Friday, 3 July 2009
Online catalogue of books is the library that never closes | Technology | The Guardian
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The Open library attempts to bring together the printed word and the electronic word with a web page for every book
Thursday, 2 July 2009
RT @FabricaGallery AudioBoo: Next in our series on The Elephant Bed, Fabrica's summer exhibition http://boo.fm/b35151
Have a look at this AudioBoo on The Elephant Bed, the upcoming exhibition at Fabrica in Brighton - http://boo.fm/b35151
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