Friday, April 13, 2007

12 Breeds of Freelance Client and How to Work with Them (with Cartoons)

"Brilliant post. So true..." "Deliciously true and categorised very well."All those different types of clients you meet as a freelancer... categorized up into 12 client types...



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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

How the media failed the American people

The real media failing was not in any one area; it was across the board. Lies and distortions went unchallenged, or were actively promoted. Fundamental and problematic assumptions about terrorism and the "war on terror" were rarely debated or even discussed. Vital historical context was almost never provided. Good reporting was also absent.



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Monday, April 9, 2007

Record Industry Dying? Sales Down 20%

First things first: Overall album sales for the January 1-April 2 period are down 16.6% to 117.1 million units, led -- or perhaps misled -- by a 20.5% decline in CD album sales.



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Sunday, April 8, 2007

Microsoft dropping DRM from Zune Music Store

"Microsoft says that it's dropping DRM from some of the catalog in the Zune store. This is the other shoe-drop we've all been waiting for since Apple announced last week that it would sell the entire EMI catalog (albeit at a 30% higher price) without DRM through the iTunes Music Store..."



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