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Archive for » March 9th, 2006«

The Search and Google Book Search

As an author who actually wants my books to be fully indexed by both Google Book Search and Amazon.com’s Search Inside the book I’m not exactly the most favorite writer of my publishers. (I’ve directly asked one of them and got “we’re talking about that” as a response.) Here’s the story of how the conversation between John Battelle, author of The Search (a book about Google), and his publisher went. According to Mr. Battelle “[his publisher is] afraid of the future. Afraid of what they don’t know…. It’s very irritating to me.”

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New USB device

In honor of yesterday’s snow in Denver, today’s thermometer hovering at 32F, and the 1500 watt heater in my office I give you USB Heating Gloves from USBGeek.com.

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