Michael Gravel - Links http://textpattern.com/?v= http://www.michaelgravel.com Links from Edmonton Poet Michael Gravel Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:03:11 -0600 Make Something Edmonton I love it. Love the idea and love the energy behind it. It’s an “indirect” form of brand building: just build something cool, give others permission to do the same. Eventually those cool things reach critical mass and begin to define you. It’s an inspiring and positive idea for a city that has long struggled with its identity. Also: sweet site design from Lift Interactive.

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]]> http://www.makesomethingedmonton.ca/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:03:11 -0600 Danielle Morrill on Solving Problems for Parents This piece resonates with me because I have worked at the intersection of seniors and technology. There is a lot of work to be done in making technologies more accessible and easier to use for seniors. There is some great startup potential here; it’s an opportunity to do some truly great work.

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]]> http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/02/solve-the-problems-your-parents-have/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:02:46 -0700 Will DIY Pay for Author Development? Nice think piece by Porter Anderson on DIY publishing and how it does / doesn’t handle R & D and the development of new authors.

As the industry morphs and struggles, it’s the kind of question the best heads need to be ready to answer: In self-publishing, with every writer working for him- or herself, where does the R & D come from?

The publishing / book industry may head down the same road as the music industry: a fractured enterprise with no centre; many small groups with small audiences that support each other.

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]]> http://janefriedman.com/2012/07/15/extra-ether-will-diy-pay-for-rd/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:07:26 -0600 Springsteen Encore with Paul McCartney Foiled by Curfew I’m not sure on the details yet, but it looks like Bruce’s big show in Hyde Park for Hard Rock Calling got cut short because of a curfew. Not the end of the world, but it happened shortly after Paul McCartney joined him on stage for part of the encore. I’d be pretty pissed if I was at the show.

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]]> http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-07-14/bruce-springsteen-cut-off-after-long-gig-in-hyde-park/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:07:27 -0600 The Facebook Tweak that Killed a Billion Dollar Industry The headline is a bit hyperbolic. Given Facebook’s penchant for changing their interface, depending on them to keep a set of features that you depend on for revenue isn’t wise. This change killed an “industry” to make way for better “customer engagement” by businesses and brands.

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]]> http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/12/facebook-9/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:07:32 -0600 The Well Groomed Male - Braun I didn’t realize that “bodygrooming” was a thing for men. The photo of the guy sporting a Batman symbol carved from his chest hair is especially disturbing.

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]]> http://www.braun.com/en_ca/male-grooming/adviser.html http://www.michaelgravel.com Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:07:23 -0600 'Poetry bomber' targets charity shops - The Guardian Argentinean artist Agustina Woodgate has been surreptitiously sewing excerpts of poems into garments at second hand stores in Miami.

Sewing poems in clothes is a way of bringing poetry to everyday life just by displacing it, by removing it from a paper to integrate it and fuse it with our lives. Sometimes little details are stronger when they are separated from where they are expected to be[…]

A pleasing idea for the poets among us.

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]]> http://shawnblanc.net/2011/06/off-site-backups/ http://www.michaelgravel.com Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:06:08 -0600 HTML Email Boilerplate A skeletal framework for shipping HTML email. Nice chunk of code that includes a reset and some client-specific fixes. Worth checking out if you’re in the email construction game.

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