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January 22, 2004
Bargain hunting
Here are two sites for bargains: Free After Rebate and Discount Watcher. Both have RSS feeds. Discount Watcher's feed can become large quickly, though.
Posted by eubie at 11:01 AM permalink
Drat those mistakes
Here's one from Reuters that makes me glad I wasn't there: "A hiking magazine apologized on Thursday after it published a route plan that would have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis."
Posted by eubie at 10:57 AM permalink
Making your own success
Andy Kessler wrote a book, "Wall Street Meal: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder," about his days as a Wall Street analysts, but publishers rejected it because they could not get it to market for 21 months and feared the topic would be cold then.
Kessler decided to self-publish even though he was told it is not a way to publish successfully. He has his book published in less than two months.
Then he started marketing it. Using his contacts and Amazon, he creates buzz for the book. Eventually major booksellers are calling him and he recently sold paperback publishing rights to a major publisher. His recounting of taking the initiative and not accepting conventional wisdom are in the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by eubie at 7:00 AM permalink
Better snapshots?
BBC article says we'll take better photographs with digital cameras since it's easy to discard the ones we don't like.
Posted by eubie at 6:24 AM permalink