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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Can a publisher be a book club?
Hyperion Starts Imprint to Help Women Whittle the Book Choices - New York Times
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: August 29, 2006
I'm not sure if it's economically feasible or if demographics are such that "if you liked this, you will also like..." can be true of a single imprint.
Hyperion Starts Imprint to Help Women Whittle the Book Choices - New York Times
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: August 29, 2006
I'm not sure if it's economically feasible or if demographics are such that "if you liked this, you will also like..." can be true of a single imprint.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
In local news...
Saw Tony Fernandes (Dato') the other day. I was at a talk by him. The place was packed; standing room only. He said he spends about 50% of his time on internal branding - the AirAsia culture. Showed pictures of baggage handlers and the like who became first officers, their new flight simulators for their flying academy, and talked about their women pilots.
For a media darling and "the person you want at your table at a party", he isn't a very high energy guy. He has a more of deadpan sort of delivery, and a verbal tic which consists of long and loud "errrrrrrrrrr"s every so often. He worked with Richard Branson at Virgin earlier; the similarities (in AirAsia appearance) show. He gives all the press his cell phone number.
In answer to questions about MAS, he said all AirAsia wants is a "level playing field". As long as they are competing on the open market, he is fine.
Thanks to a friend, managed to catch Puteri Gunung Ledang: The Musical at Istana Budaya. Another friend was quite impressed with the place, making the visit more uplifting. The show itself was good. Overall, I guess you could say it was more than the sum of its parts (in contrast to M! The Opera, which was less).
Not that there weren't quibbles - I wasn't convinced the two leads were in love, for instance. No strong encounter before the two of them started soaring off in ballads. But the music was good - tuneful, catchy, cool drums, the set pieces were lively; the story was simple; all in all a worthwhile and well packaged endeavour.
My favourite character was the Sultan (of Melaka), who had a jazzy number which I thought was really funny somewhere in the middle. There was real royalty in the crowd that day; consequently the show started late. We were all wondering why, till 20 minutes after stated start time, the emcee began greeting the Sultan of Perak and his consort and some other VVIPs.
Anyway, I bought the children's book (they are really taking a leaf from Disney - the movie, the musical, the book, the revised legend!) and the original cast soundtrack (this is the 2nd run; it was highly popular). I wonder if the male lead, who is a foreigner, is pleased to have himself immortalized in a children's book. I would be. A most impressive perk to being a musical lead.
Saw Tony Fernandes (Dato') the other day. I was at a talk by him. The place was packed; standing room only. He said he spends about 50% of his time on internal branding - the AirAsia culture. Showed pictures of baggage handlers and the like who became first officers, their new flight simulators for their flying academy, and talked about their women pilots.
For a media darling and "the person you want at your table at a party", he isn't a very high energy guy. He has a more of deadpan sort of delivery, and a verbal tic which consists of long and loud "errrrrrrrrrr"s every so often. He worked with Richard Branson at Virgin earlier; the similarities (in AirAsia appearance) show. He gives all the press his cell phone number.
In answer to questions about MAS, he said all AirAsia wants is a "level playing field". As long as they are competing on the open market, he is fine.
Thanks to a friend, managed to catch Puteri Gunung Ledang: The Musical at Istana Budaya. Another friend was quite impressed with the place, making the visit more uplifting. The show itself was good. Overall, I guess you could say it was more than the sum of its parts (in contrast to M! The Opera, which was less).
Not that there weren't quibbles - I wasn't convinced the two leads were in love, for instance. No strong encounter before the two of them started soaring off in ballads. But the music was good - tuneful, catchy, cool drums, the set pieces were lively; the story was simple; all in all a worthwhile and well packaged endeavour.
My favourite character was the Sultan (of Melaka), who had a jazzy number which I thought was really funny somewhere in the middle. There was real royalty in the crowd that day; consequently the show started late. We were all wondering why, till 20 minutes after stated start time, the emcee began greeting the Sultan of Perak and his consort and some other VVIPs.
Anyway, I bought the children's book (they are really taking a leaf from Disney - the movie, the musical, the book, the revised legend!) and the original cast soundtrack (this is the 2nd run; it was highly popular). I wonder if the male lead, who is a foreigner, is pleased to have himself immortalized in a children's book. I would be. A most impressive perk to being a musical lead.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Why you can't trust news photography. By Jim Lewis
Follow-up to the story two entries ago. The fine line between doctoring and doctoring (of photos).
Ref: Don't Believe What You See in the Papers: The untrustworthiness of news photography.By Jim Lewis. Slate.com Posted Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, at 5:48 PM ET
Follow-up to the story two entries ago. The fine line between doctoring and doctoring (of photos).
Ref: Don't Believe What You See in the Papers: The untrustworthiness of news photography.By Jim Lewis. Slate.com Posted Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, at 5:48 PM ET
The seven ways that people search the Web. By Paul Boutin
Slate.com Posted Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, at 5:30 PM ET
"AOL researchers recently published the search logs of about 650,000 members—a total of 36,389,629 individual searches..." WOW!
Like Boutin, the first thing that came to my mind was - wow - what data! ("AOL's 36 million log entries might look like an Orwellian nightmare to you, but for us it's a user transaction case study to die for.")
Boutin writes an amusing article about what he found and how to search for it yourself (tip: see printer-friendly version).
Slate.com Posted Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, at 5:30 PM ET
"AOL researchers recently published the search logs of about 650,000 members—a total of 36,389,629 individual searches..." WOW!
Like Boutin, the first thing that came to my mind was - wow - what data! ("AOL's 36 million log entries might look like an Orwellian nightmare to you, but for us it's a user transaction case study to die for.")
Boutin writes an amusing article about what he found and how to search for it yourself (tip: see printer-friendly version).
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer - Yahoo! News
Reuters, Mon Aug 7, 12:20 PM ET
Mideast photographer doctors pic with Photoshop.
Reuters, Mon Aug 7, 12:20 PM ET
Mideast photographer doctors pic with Photoshop.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
In India, a Maid Becomes an Unlikely Literary Star
By AMELIA GENTLEMAN
Published: August 2, 2006
"Written in Bengali and translated into several other Indian languages a
and English this year, Ms. Halder’s autobiography has become a best seller..."
By AMELIA GENTLEMAN
Published: August 2, 2006
"Written in Bengali and translated into several other Indian languages a
and English this year, Ms. Halder’s autobiography has become a best seller..."
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