TheMadPeacock On The Sofa

When we moved from our 3 bedroom house in the UK to our small apartment in LA we boxed up much of our library and other things we did not need day-to-day and they have traveled with us from apartment to apartment for 5 years, mostly living in the “guest room”
Well with the immanent birth [...]

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After my last post I started to think about the books I have read that embrace the digital darkroom and the power it represents.
One of the first books that came to mind was Welcome to OZ by Vincent Versace. This is not a book about creating images that are montages of multiple images; there are [...]

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Albert Einstein
“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”
I knew about Einstein, E=MC2 and all that but it was not until I joined Inquire GmbH that I first started to read about his theories and life. The CEO of Inquire named the company inspired by the quote above and referred Einstein frequently.
This book is [...]

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About a year ago I decided to create a community web site that would provide photographers with a place to share information on the photo locations they have found.
I was motivated to do this because I travel a lot as part of my job and although I only get a bit of time between meetings [...]

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The Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2006
“Chesbrough is not the first academic to grasp the superior economic value of intellectual over tangible property in today’s economy. But he may be the one who has thought most deeply about its consequences for business.”
I could not put this book down! it is full of insightful examples of [...]

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Wichinomics was recommended to my by one of the VP’s at Emergent, having read it
I feel the need to share it with you. It is an enlightening book that focuses on the changing world of Internet togetherness, mass or global collaboration also known as crowdsourcing.
In a previous job I had the honor of working with [...]

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I purchased this book because Amazons web site recommended it to me based on my past purchases and the recommendations of its members. Ironically this software as a service type crowdsorcing system is part of what is being discussed in the book itself.
For me open source as a business is fascinating. The idea of [...]

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