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Why social media isn't the magic bullet for self-epublished authors

Social media: great white hope, or albatross? Photograph: Alamy "Authors – become a success through building an 'internet platform'!". For almost five years we've been subjected to the same message.…
PUBLISHED: July 30, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3704 words)
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Life and death on my street in Sarajevo

In 1991, the year that the Soviet Union broke up, a nationalist revival was sweeping eastern Europe. It found its most pernicious expression in Yugoslavia, a country patched together in 1943 out of…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3031 words)

the man prepared to go to prison for nudity

Winter at HMP Perth. The river Tay carries slivers of ice on its journey past the prison wall. Prisoners' breath catches in clouds while they glumly circuit the courtyard. At this time of year, many…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3227 words)

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw…
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4954 words)

Do we still need publishers?

The title of this talk is, "Do We Need Publishers Any More?". I was going to call it "Thank Christ We Don't Need Bloody Publishers Any More" – but I felt that sounded too…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1843 words)
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Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?

Might the miserly use of neural resources be one of the essential keys to understanding how brains make sense of the world? Some recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience suggests that…
AUTHOR:ANDY CLARK
PUBLISHED: Jan. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1929 words)
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