notmuch Email, Mobile Processing, Realtime Mocap, and Making Money from Books
by Nat Torkington
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| 22 January 2010
- notmuch -- commandline tagging and fast search for a mailbox, regardless of which mail client you use.
- Processing for Android -- pre-release versions of a Processing for Android devices. Mobile visual programming makes for interesting possibilities.
- Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360 -- machine learning to recognize poses and render in the game at 30fps. It's a basic real-time mocap and render.
- The Monetization Paradox -- interesting post by Charlie Stross about the quandry of authors. he proposed $9.99 cap on ebooks replaces the high-end $24 hardcover. Not only does it mean less royalties for the authors, it means less money for the publishers — or, more importantly, their marketing divisions. Here's a hint: if I wanted to spend my time marketing my books I'd have gone into marketing. I'm a writer. Every hour spent on marketing activities is an hour spent not writing. Ditto editing, proofreading, commissioning cover art, and so on. This is what I have publishers for.
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Comments: 1
Rob Myers [22 January 2010 04:09 AM]
"Here's a hint: if I wanted to spend my time marketing my books I'd have gone into marketing."
Wrote the author on a blog post picked up across the net. ;-)