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The Tortoise and the Hare: Made to Stick

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a little video I made to supplement the excellent book Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, using Aesop’s fable and a personal twist to help explain the key concepts of SUCCESs:

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Of BristleBots and Folding Toilet Paper: Finding Inspiration and Controversy in Common Bathroom Materials

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over on the Make blog (disclosure: Make is a division of O’Reilly Media, the company that pays me, though not for this blog), Phillip Torrone’s causing quite a stir in the maker and publishing communities by questioning the originality of Klutz/Scholastic’s forthcoming book/kit Invasion of the Bristlebots, a project that features, without attribution, an invention [...]

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You Got to Know When to Fold ‘Em

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

A couple months after quietly releasing me from their employment (due to circumstances beyond either of our control), Hollan Publishing quietly released a new craft book with my name* on the cover: Napkin Origami. For a number of reasons that probably aren’t worth getting into (you don’t really need to know how the sausage is [...]

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Sensual Knits: Book Release and Call for Submissions

Posted in Knitting, tagged , , , on November 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »

When I started my current job as a craft editor, I was particularly excited to get involved in my first knitting book. That book, already in the late stages of production at the time, turned out to be Sensual Knits, by Yahaira Ferreira. Technically, it’s a January 2008 release, but it’s actually available now at [...]

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When Private Passions Meet Public Profession

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 10, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Today is my last day at my current employer and the beginning of some big changes for me that I thought would be of interest to the increasingly craft-focussed readership of this blog.
As you probably know, though I’ve gotten considerably geekier on the job (and have numerous posts here to prove it), I’ve always been [...]

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A Tour of My Local Book Manufacturer

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, I was given a real treat. I got to tour the factory for the book manufacturer that prints many of the titles I edit for my day job. (For those of you chuckling, yes, I considered this a treat. What can I say?) It just so happens that I got to do this [...]

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Ira Glass on Storytelling

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In four parts:

Spotted on Your Daily Awesome (via kottke).

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Blogging Hacks

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I post to my personal blog on my own time. But over the past few months, I’ve also been blogging away quietly on company time. I’ve been building up posts at Hackszine, in anticipation of the site’s formal launch (still to come). As I mention in today’s welcome post, this blog is the new online [...]

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Map Your Books

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The folks at Google have answered a great rhetorical question with an even better internal mashup of Google Books Search and Google Maps:
So why not visualize places mentioned in books on a map? Now you can. Our team has begun to animate the static information found in books by organizing a sample of locations from [...]

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Knit Lit?

Posted in Knitting, tagged , on January 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I somehow doubt that The Friday Night Knitting Club will spark a new literary genre, but the fanfare over its publication certainly signals a trend:
With knitting captivating a new generation of women, writer Kate Jacobs based her debut novel around a yarn shop in New York — winning actress Julia Roberts’ attention.
Roberts, a self-confessed knitter, [...]

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