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...next novel, Under the Dome. "People want to harness the Web - everybody from my publisher to movie studios to groups like Radiohead. But nobody really knows how to do it. It's like trying to herd cats." King well knows the perils (and potential embarrassments) of trying to attract analog readers through digital means. Riding the Bullet was a success, but an online serialization of The Plant - an e-book also released in 2000 - ceased after King, in a rare moment, publicly ran out of creative juice...
...have initiated a small backlash against the search-and-rip attitude of online music purchasing. “The downside of downloading music is that it gets compressed and it doesn’t sound how it should, so people are kind of falling in love again with the analog feel, throwing up the vinyl.”Palmer was less optimistic. “That is happening, but that’s not the majority of people,” he says. “That’s the minority.” More than anything...
...avoid telemarketing calls. Zachary C. Arnold ’10, co-chair of the Harvard College Environmental Action Committee (EAC), said that, while he is unfamiliar with the Cambridge program, “overall it’s a great idea.” He added that an analog of the initiative could be developed for Harvard. “There’s huge potential to decrease the stuff we’re printing that doesn’t necessarily need to be printed in such great quantities,” Arnold said. Arnold cited not just half-inch...
...internet search engines are a spookily accurate digital barometer of contemporary celebrity - in 2007, Google's Top Ten Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman...
...work,” she says. “They can discuss the work in the framework of photography, the tradition of still life, intellectual history, and I also think there’s a whole aspect of the work about obsolescence, whether it’s analog technology, film, camera, or even books.” Davey and Molesworth have a long, personal relationship dating to Molesworth’s college days. In 1988, Davey had Molesworth as a student in a history of photography class at the University of California at San Diego. These days, it?...