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Naked Dude and Naked Ladies

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:10:00 GMT

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Chris Matthews, Part 2

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:53:01 GMT

Matthews

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Chris Matthews, Part 1

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:31:00 GMT

MSNBC's Chris Matthews talks to TVNewser's Steve Krakauer about fathers, President Obama and more.

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Flashlight

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:56:07 GMT

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How to Build a Fictional Twitter Feed

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:02:01 GMT

Earlier this year Carri Bugbee won an Shorty Award for gaining over 13,700 Twitter followers for an imaginary character--writing tweets about the life of Mad Men character Peggy Olson. GalleyCat caught up with Bugbee at O'Reilly Media's Twitter Boot Camp, where experts pondered this new social networking tool. In this exclusive interview, Bugbee tells publishers how they can build Twitter campaigns for imaginary characters--including a speculative riff on a Twitter feed for a Michael Connelly character. Besides writing about the adventures of a young secretary in New York City, Bugbee works for Big Deal PR, building social media campaigns for different companies.

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Chiat's You Can Call me Al

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:28:04 GMT

come and get it

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Chiat LA Kids Make Video, Ruin Careers

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:06:04 GMT

Come get me.

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Trent Reznor at the Webbys

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:35:02 GMT

Trent Reznor at the Webbys.

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Artists, Writers, and the Great Depression

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:37:07 GMT

Until June 20th, the New York City gallery has an art show collecting a series of nudes painted by Alice Neel during the Great Depression. One GalleyCat editor put together this short video about Neel, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), and New York bohemians in the 1930s--using actual WPA footage shot during the period. NOTE: The three paintings in the video come courtesy of the Zwirner & Wirth exhibit, and feature brief images of nudity. Neel befriended numerous writers in the 1930s, including poet Kenneth Fearing and editor Malcolm Cowley, and the WPA created work for this group of artists. While Neel's official site provides an extensive biography, the book "Alice Neel: Paintings from the Thirties," edited by Wayne Koestenbaum, collects many of Neel's most gorgeous works from the Great Depression and the WPA. After the Great Depression, hundreds of works of art--from state guidebooks to precious paintings--were literally scrapped. As we struggle through our own economic crisis, many are revisiting these lost artifacts. Garrett County Press recently republished the New Orleans City Guide written by WPA-contracted writers and the Zwirner & Wirth exhibit sheds more light on the period.

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Toni Morrison and Post-Obama Writing

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:37:00 GMT

Author Toni Morrison published her first novel in 1970, and her career has spanned a number of milestones for civil rights, technology, and politics. In this short video, the Nobel Prize winning novelist talks about writing in the age of President Barack Obama and the Internet. Earlier this week, GalleyCat covered the National Coalition Against Censorship's launch of the Free Speech Leadership Council. Morrison spoke at an intimate event at the book-filled apartment of Council chair and former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman . The new council is a collection of community leaders working together to combat censorship around the country. All attendees left with a copy of 'Burn This Book,' an anthology published by HarperStudio and PEN American Center.

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The Revolution Will Be Customized

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:03:01 GMT

During the Mediabistro Circus, GalleyCat caught up with Eileen Gittins , founder of the on-demand publisher, Blurb. In this video interview, Gittins shared her company's newest project, The Obama Time Capsule--a customized book that allows readers to mix their own content alongside images from more than 140 professional photographers and essays from General Colin Powell , Joe Klein , Auma Obama and Arianna Huffington.Here's more from book's release: "HP's print-on-demand technology enables each copy of The Obama Time Capsule to be personalized with photos and text added by each book buyer. The book is then printed through Blurb's global print partner network. Blurb's innovation in the print-on-demand publishing market has helped drive the printed one-at-a-time model that is revolutionizing the way books are created and sold."

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Toni Morrison Defends Censored Work

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:26:04 GMT

Two weeks ago a high school in Shelby, Michigan ordered an English teacher to stop teaching students about Toni Morrison 's novel, "Song of Solomon."The Nobel Prize-winning author helped the National Coalition Against Censorship launch of the Free Speech Leadership Council yesterday at an intimate event at the book-filled apartment of Council chair and former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman . The new council is a collection of community leaders working together to combat censorship around the country. All attendees left with a copy of 'Burn This Book,' an anthology published by HarperStudio and PEN American Center.In this exclusive video, Morrison spoke with author and actor Fran Lebowitz about censorship in their lives and work.

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Blogging Evangelist on the Future of Publishing

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:05:02 GMT

When newspapers began to make massive layoffs, Six Apart's chief evangelist Anil Dash proposed what used to be known as the Typepad Journalism Bailout Program. Thousands of writers flocked to his blog network looking for answers in this confusing new media economy. GalleyCat caught up with Dash during the two-day Mediabistro Circus extravaganza.Dash joined a future of publishing panel with PCMag.com executive editor Dan Costa led a discussion between Eileen Gittins (CEO of Blurb.com), and Rob Samuels from the NY Times. Stay tuned for more Circus videos this week.

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How 25 Million Chinese Readers Read Online

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:42:01 GMT

In a sparsely attended BEA panel about Chinese literature, publishing consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart and Wan Rong Books publisher Lu Jinbo discussed how Chinese publishers discovered 25 million readers online. The two speakers pondered the shifting publishing landscape, particularly how the recent report, the Chinese website Shanda Literature has 25 million readers and handles about 90 percent of China's booming online literary readership with a unique subscription model. After the panel, GalleyCat caught up with Wischenbart for that video interview about what American publishers can learn from Chinese publishing. If you want to learn more about the panel, blogger Eric Rosenfield recorded some of the country's astounding piracy statistics.

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How to Build a Literary iPhone App

Sat, 30 May 2009 17:05:00 GMT

At BEA this year, everybody talked about iPhone apps, but only one person taught you how to do it. GalleyCat caught up with Matt Supko, the developer behind the popular ABA/Indiebound app which allows readers to find local indie bookstores and browse books on their iPhone. In this exclusive video interview, Supko explains how he built the app and landed 50,000 downloads in a few action-packed months. Supko also spoke at the excellent "7×20x21" event, a BEA presentation discussion curated by Ryan Chapman and Ami Greko. They chose seven industry professionals and gave each speaker seven minutes, the chance to choose 20 slides, and 21 seconds to talk about each picture.

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Viral Videos, Publishing, and Puppies

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:39:00 GMT

What can publishers learn from a social networking campaign that doesn't go the way they planned? GalleyCat caught up with Doubleday/Knopf's online director Jeffrey Yamaguchi for an exclusive interview about what he learned from a campaign for Michael Crichton's novel, "Next." Yamaguchi also runs the website 52 Projects. Yamaguchi told this story at the excellent "7×20x21" event, a BEA presentation discussion curated by Ryan Chapman and Ami Greko. They chose seven industry professionals and gave each speaker seven minutes, the chance to choose 20 slides, and 21 seconds to talk about each picture.

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signing

Fri, 29 May 2009 17:56:00 GMT

More than 40 bloggers registered for the first ever blogger signing session at BookExpo America--including two GalleyCat editors. In this video, GalleyCat senior editor Ron Hogan chats with author Isobella Jade.Firebrand Technologies will host autograph sessions, interviews, and Q & A's with online literary curators. In addition, the company will give away two free Sony Readers to lucky participants. Check out the schedule and read more here: "It's clear from how quickly this idea went from concept to reality, that book bloggers need and want to create community-to-community relationships with publishers, retailers, and readers. This is an incredibly exciting time in publishing! We invite every publisher at BEA to review this schedule and mark their calendars, so they have a chance to meet the bloggers who are helping to sell their books."

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How to Catch a Book Pirate

Thu, 28 May 2009 17:47:01 GMT

Since fall 2008, Magellan Media has monitored pirated copies of O'Reilly Media titles on illegal download sites. GalleyCat caught up with the New York University grad student who actually collected all the data--cruising file sharing sites every day since the study began. This video interview contains practical advice for publishers looking to monitor pirated books on file sharing sites.The company just released its findings as a new report entitled "Impact of P2P and Free Distribution on Book Sales."

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OneStory

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:56:04 GMT

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Wall Street Bookshelf

Tue, 26 May 2009 15:34:02 GMT

How can publishing keep up with Wall Street? When the stock market crash hit last year, publishers scrambled to catch up with the lightening-fast reversal in America's fortunes. Last week GalleyCat caught up with Time Magazine's financial reporter, Justin Fox, talking about how publishers and writers struggle to capture this rapidly changing market. His new book, "The Myth of the Rational Market," gives a history lesson about the authors, economists, and stock brokers who tried to analyze finance over the last century.Here's more about the book: The efficient market hypothesis--long part of academic folklore but codified in the 1960s at the University of Chicago--has evolved into a powerful myth ... The theory holds that the market is always right, and that the decisions of millions of rational investors, all acting on information to outsmart one another, always provide the best judge of a stock's value. That myth is crumbling."

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