Cat Marnell, the madcap former beauty editor who parlayed her drug addiction into a blogging platform at xoJane, didn’t start her memoir until the day it was due. That book, How to Murder Your Life, emerged three years later, but it still feels like something Marnell dashed off in 24 hours while on speed. Maybe her fans won’t be shocked: The “unhealthy health writer” has long seemed, in her creative process, to treat her past like flashy tinsel paper to be crumpled up and thrown in your face. Her posts had titles like “GONNA WASH THAT ANGEL DUST RIGHT OUTTA MY HAIR: ‘Miracle’ (Uh-Huh) Treatments to Help You Pass Those Follicle Drug Tests, Naughty Nancys!” But this book is a work of substance disguised as an evanescent sparkle. Continue reading at 'Slate'
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Publishers should let the reader into the creative process and look to incubate start-ups in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Apple reportedly has hired Adobe exec Todd Teresi to lead its mobile iAd program. Teresi led the advertising and publishing teams at Adobe, according to his LinkedIn profile. Previous jobs include chief revenue officer at Quantcast and senior vp at Yahoo, where he ran the company's publisher... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Wordpress has released its newest version, Wordpress 3.1. This is the fourteenth version of the blogging platform. Wordpress 3.1 has been dubbed Reinhardt, reportedly after jazz musician Django Reinhardt. New and improved features include a redesigned linking workflow, an admin bar, a... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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