Links of interest: May 13, 2013

Curated links that could be of possible interest to book publishers, literary agents, authors. Link [Courtesy Bookriot] What’s interesting—to me—here is that while “word of mouth” tied for the top answer in my poll, what it tied with was the book’s cover, and the next highest answer was the book’s synopsis or an excerpt from [...]

Questions that seem to foster creativity and spark the innovators

Questions that seem to work. or dimensions of thought process to improve existing process. ==================================== Why not… Why do I have to… What if…

Need tools for interactively proofing the web

Imagine: Tools that would let me add shapes above words appearing on the web. Shapes like ovals, rectangles, etc.

Wanted: Photo manager

That works exactly to my specifications. Provision for editing is not required. I only need to be able to view photos I collected, at leisure. I want something that works like Windows Photo Manager but the pain point is that to view properties associated with the video I need to click on File>Properties>Comments. I need [...]

Reviewables: Should ‘lean’ concept be downplayed

I wonder why not downplay the ‘lean’ label if it invokes the idea of cutting corners and gave rise to misguided ideas like ‘doing more with less’. I think we shouldnt try to think of quality with an eye toward ‘quantify’ing it – use of words like ‘more’ ‘less’ invokes ideas of misguided attempts to [...]