Webzine business models; trimming copy; semantic tagging redux; flocking behaviour in quitting smokers …

• 1 – Five Unconventional Zine Model Ideas
  If you read, write, edit or publish genre fiction, READ THIS. NOW.
  (tags: profitability longevity industry science models publishing fiction webzine)
• 2 – How to Lose 30 Pounds of Word Flab Overnight
  “… I always recommend lean copy. And it’s twice as important online. Whipping copy into shape is an important skill for any writer, because all of us start with flabby first drafts.” Just as valid for fiction, BTW.
  (tags: concision editing trimming lean copywriting writing)
• 3 – Tagging in the Semantic Web
  “It’s up to us to help organize data in a format that is machine readable so the machines can share, but in return it allows us to perform incredible searches likes never before.”
  (tags: futurism webdev search semantic taxonomy tagging)
• 4 – Fears of digital divide are groundless
  “Sunderland emerges as the UK’s digital capital [...] Although the city council said this was down to local education projects, others said it could be linked to consistently poor weather.” LOL
  (tags: location class social divide digital access internet UK)
• 5 – Quitting smokers act like flocks of birds
  “Whole groups of smokers are quitting at once, it’s not just isolated individuals blinking out,” Christakis says. “It’s whole interconnected groups simultaneously dropping out.” Intriguing.
  (tags: networks social behaviour psychology flock quitting smoking)
• 6 – Convert jpeg files to PDF under Linux
  Pretty simple, pretty handy.
  (tags: linux conversion format file pdf jpg)

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