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From Blogs to Books - A History of the Web in Print

Miss Cellania — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:09:45 +0000

Most people I encounter in my offline life do not surf the internet, and I think about all the rich content they are missing. The people I encounter on the internet work hard to spread interesting content, and are rarely rewarded for their efforts. But in the last few years, quite a few interesting ideas that broke on the web are now breaking through to “meatspace” through book publishing, which is where the real money is -for the lucky ones. This has led to blogs that are started for the express purpose of landing an eventual book deal. Urlesque has compiled a list of blogs that have turned into books, which may be useful in Christmas shopping for your relatives who would enjoy such things but won’t spend time online. Link -via the Presurfer

Music Royalties for Dummies

Queuebot — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:26:56 +0000

With all of the confusion recently on the internet about music and copyright, you may not know what’s what. Here’s something to help you learn about how music royalties work.

Considering how much “education” about music and copyright is out there (”downloading music is stealing!” ads and the like), most people have no idea how it actually works in terms of who owns what and who should get money from what kind of use. And lately, with issues like confusion over Pandora royalties, songwriters trying to collect royalties from blogs that post YouTube videos, and even arguments that video games may constitute a public performance of music, it’s just been getting increasingly complicated.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geeksaresexy.

From the Desk of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe...

Stacy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:07:52 +0000

…comes “Appropriately Named,” a blog that points out all of those names for people and businesses that are just too good to be true. My favorite? Dr. William Friend… proctologist. And to your left is Larry Sprinkle, weatherman. If only he was a urologist. Mostly this is an excuse to get you to share your own in the comments – so have at it!

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Dogs in Outfits

Jill Harness — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:31:25 +0000

If you’re a fan of Upside Down Dogs, Muttskis or any of the other cute dog blogs that have been featured on Neatorama, you are bound to love Dogs In Outfits. As the name says, it’s all dogs in outfits, that’s it. And it’s very cute as a result.

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