Bookmarks for 1 May 2010
- Eleven things I couldn’t have written my book without.. at Creative Disruption
From Evernote to Laudon Wainwright: "To call this ‘a system’ would imply far too much organisation; and I have no proof that the result of all of this is a decent book – but this is what I relied on to get the manuscript finished – and that was enough of a milestone for me." (productivity writing ) - HP to buy Palm for $1.2 billion
(hp palm acquisition ) - The Cleverness Economy
Ryan Sholin's notes on "the cleverness economy", stuffed into a web page. (research ) - A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code – good coders code, great reuse
"This is just amazing. In 20 lines of node.js code and 10 minutes of time I was able to write a HTTP proxy. And it scales well, too. It's not a blocking HTTP proxy, it's event driven and asynchronous, meaning hundreds of people can use simultaneously and it will work well." (javascript node_js web_server ) - Cancel Publish: A Call For the End of Tumblr Book Deals: The Q: GQ
"Tumblr and Twitter book deals are completely out of control." The evidence is there… but isn't this just the Web-evolved version of publishing "The Little Book of Calm", "Boring Postcards", etc that we've had for a couple of decades now? (tumblr twitter books )
