From the pen of a French beggar, a bestseller is born
Chad Felix
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
Noted nerd and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his New Years resolution on Friday, namely to read about two books a month through the end of the year. He had… Read more »
I am delighted to call bullshit on this: Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith’s claim, to Bloomberg TV, that his company could soon “have a market value equaling” Twitter. The numbers… Read more »
Last weekend, an excerpt from Dave Eggers’ new novel The Circle, about a young woman who goes to work at a powerful internet company, was published in the New York… Read more »
Author Neil Gaiman has been an active force on social media for some time now, with more than a million people reading his blog and following his Twitter account, @neilhimself,… Read more »
The closeness of “Gogol” and “Google” is just too tempting for it not to have resulted in some kind of mash-up or modern-day re-working—and so it now has, in the… Read more »
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and recently minted (he bought it) publisher of The New Republic, made headlines this weekend when he introduced TNR’s redesign. Now sporting a revamped website… Read more »
Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of California, San Diego have found that the brain remembers posts on Facebook and other social media significantly better than sentences picked… Read more »
“I’m convinced that epublishing is another tech bubble, and that it will burst within the next 18 months.” Bold words, and not mine. Ewan Morrison made this pronouncement yesterday on… 2 / Read more »
This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »