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Reading Week #18

08.08.2014 by Nicola //

It’s BEDA Day 7 and the best day of the week – Friday!

Today I’m catching up with friends, hanging out with my parents, and looking forward to a fun weekend at the Edinburgh Festivals before heading to California on Monday!

More on that and my top links of the week below.

What have you been reading this week?

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Over on my business blog, I posted about How to Schedule Your Social Media Updates.

Blog Every Day April – July Book Reviews | August TBR & Updates | Some of my Favourite Quotations | How I Became Canongate’s #NudgeYourWorld Guinea Pig | Top 3 Cover Songs.

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13 Audiobooks That Make Every Drive Worth It. I like non-fiction read by the author, so some of these are definitely on my list.

It’s always lovely to hear that entertainers you like are big readers. Bill Hader’s By The Book is fantastic. The archive is well worth a look too.

I love this New Yorker feature on The Earliest Recorded Sounds. There’s also some examples in the Out Loud podcast on it. It fascinates me that new technologies tend to exist solely for technology’s sake, and that no-one thinks to save it for posterity.

This guy be crazy though:

Guglielmo Marconi, who sent the first radio message, in 1902, believed that with a microphone that was sufficiently sensitive he could hear Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount, and in 1925 a writer for the Washington Post speculated that a radio was capable of broadcasting the voices of the dead. A radio transmits vibrations, he wrote, and the voices of the dead “simply vibrate at a lower rate.”

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OK Cupid is experimenting on its users. Not just UX testing, but randomising match percentages and other questionable tactics.

TL;DR quickly followed up this story with this interview with OK Cupid President and co-founder Christian Rudder.

How about some YouTube chat? In Fast Company:

Inside YouTube’s Fame Factory.

What the Biggest YouTube Stars Really Think About Agencies Controlling Content

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If you’ve ever felt a feeling, Ze Frank has described it more eloquently than you ever could.

My friend Laura of The Bathory followed up a her weekend at a DO Workshop with 10 pieces of farm-fresh small business wisdom.

What have you been reading this week?

Reading Week #17

08.01.2014 by Nicola //

Missing this guy this week. Black cats & more below.

Happy Friday!

Yesterday was Evan’s birthday, so I’m having a slow start to the day today. Hoping to perk up just in time for our house party tonight.

This month is going to be a busy one – I’ll be travelling to the California next week, blogging every day, and making a foray into some literature from antiquity.

More on that and my top links of the week below. What have you been reading?

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Over on my business blog, here’s How I’m Investing in My Microbusiness this summer. Sounds fancy, but it’s just a bunch of great resources that you might like to check out.

I’m joining in with a Classical Literature Readalong this month! One Greek, one Latin. Check out the deets.

Blog Every Day August has begun! You’re reading #1.

I also posted an Update Video with some of the latest goings-on.

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Unearthing Breece D’J Pancake – the best author name ever? He was featured on Literary Disco – an authors’ author of sorts. He published 12 stories in his lifetime, and they’re recently republished.

This week in Not News: “Writing no longer buys a champagne lifestyle“. Wannabe writer? Start a portfolio career, dude.

Apparently black cat-ism is rampant these days. At least, this guy says so. A visit to Anne Billson’s Twitter page proves otherwise.

Further proof: 28 Lucky Black Cats. Yes I do class this as arts and culture. WHAT OF IT?

Is this the Year of the Fan? A promising new column by Elizabeth Minkel for The New Statesman.

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How YouTube introduced us to The American Room. Fantastic piece by Paul Ford.

Newsletter recommendation of the week! Jessica Stanley’s READ. LOOK. THINK. A fantastic fortnightly link list. If you like this, you’ll like hers more. (It’s better.)

Podcrush of the week! TL;DR tech (lite) podcast from – of course – WNYC. (& a reminder to try out Overcast to listen to them).

Ashley made a great video about some of her favourite essay collections – and my TBR continues its ascent.

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The Wisdom of the Moving Man is an uplifting wee read – and meditation on the funny little ways we define our own self worth.

A longread – Piety and Perversity: The Palms of Los Angeles. Apparently they’re a scourge, but fuck it. I fucking love them.

What have you been reading this week?

Reading Week #16 – A Hoy-McAvoy Sandwich

07.25.2014 by Nicola //

The Chris Hoy-James McAvoy selfie: my highlight of the Glasgow 2014 Opening Night.

Happy Friday!

It’s been an absolutely glorious week here in Glasgow. It’s warm, the Commonwealth Games has the city abuzz, and I’ve been booking trips left and right. And Chris Hoy and James McAvoy are taking selfies together.

I’m looking forward to getting my dudebro on in California next month, then visiting my brother on the other coast in September.

What’s new with you? Read anything good lately? Here’s what I’ve been reading…

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Still not sure what the heck I actually do for a living? (Me neither.) On my professional site, I blogged about My Story So Far.

I also posted a wee book haul.

One of my hilarious tweets from the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony here in Glasgow was featured on a Huffington Post Comedy blog – along with one of Evan’s. Spoiler: it’s about Hoy’s thighs. (Find me on Twitter for the rest. It was fun.)

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Speaking of Evan (that’s my husband), and culture, he wrote a great, rightfully indignant piece about his experience getting a visa in the UK: The Test of Your Life.

The New Yorker has opened its archives for the summer! Here’s the info, and here are All the New Yorker Story Roundups You Should Read While the Stories Are Still Unlocked, As Well As All the New Yorker Stories They Link To. Thanks, The Awl!

Leslie Jamison and Anna Holmes share some Writers’ Regrets. From Jamison:

I’d spent most of my life writing fiction, and it took me a while to accept that even in nonfiction I was still constructing characters — myself included.

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This week’s newsletter recommendation is The Ann Friedman Weekly. Have I recommended this before? Probably. Don’t make me tell you thrice.

In podcast corner, CGP Grey recommends a few podcast apps. I’m trying out Overcast and it’s pretty nice.

In video, my friend Jean is hosting a Classical Literature Readalong [VIDEO] throughout August. We’re reading The Odyssey by Homer in the first 2 weeks, then Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the next. Join us using #classicalreadalong.

Though I’m sickening hard on the word “content” and the constant dilution of its meaning, there are some nice tips in this Copyblogger post with a horrible title that we’ll just call How to Write Daily. (Which I also plan to do in August – more info soon.)

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This week I’ve been reading 2 books: a fantastic and thoughtful essay collection called Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, and a funny crime caper novel called Death and the Penguinby Andrey Kurkov.

I’m also trying out a Braid E-Course this week. Check out their lovely blog.

What have you been reading this week?