The IBM Building at 590 Madison Ave. has one of the finest amenities in the city: A 8,200 square-foot park-like atrium with a 65-foot high glass ceiling, with dozens of chairs and tables available to everyone. “A tree-filled conservatory and public living room rolled into one,” is how the space... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-11-27 18:07:17 UTC ]
In the last few months, news organizations have leapt into bed with OpenAI, hatching Faustian bargains where the cash-strapped media industry exchanges a monetary pittance for OpenAI's right to scrape and integrate their content into things like ChatGPT. Those that have signed in blood include... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-05-29 16:21:28 UTC ]
The astonishing breadth of her writing was a great inspiration – as was she, in her passionate advocacy for children’s books• Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-08 10:18:15 UTC ]
An unspoken tradition hints that going to the source is good for the story you want to write. The trouble often is that we have no idea what that source may be. Sometimes we think it is sheer research and we spend time in libraries. Often, we think it’s where the action of the proposed […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-22 09:52:32 UTC ]
Uli Beutter Cohen likes to bake, read Tarot cards, call her mother in Germany and spend time with book lovers on the train. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-31 10:00:14 UTC ]
Reading books is for nerds, right? Well, that depends on your definition of "nerd," I suppose. While I must confess to not being a regular reader, I greatly admire those that are. Reading is surely a better way to spend time than mindlessly watching sports on TV -- something I am quite guilty of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2020-12-09 18:41:58 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_171791" align="alignright" width="300"] The Apollo 13 crew onboard the USS Iwo Jima after splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean.[/caption] You will be familiar, I suppose, with Apollo 13—if not the phenomenal movie, perhaps the unfortunate outer-space incident that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-10-01 15:35:11 UTC ]
Stuffocation author James Wallman is moving to Ebury for his new book Time and How to Spend It: Seven Ways to Better Days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’Shakespeare had it that “joy’s soul lies in the doing”, Mark Twain that “to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with”. Now two unlikely literary collaborators, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
With bikini season approaching, Yahoo’s all about trimming the fat. Last month the company announced that it would lay off 2,000 employees as part of then-CEO Scott Thompson’s plan to create a “smaller, nimbler, more profitable” company. Now the company has opted to close its digital magazine... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]