Month: November 2009


Free Software Turns Ideas into Action

Maybe you’re like me:  full of brilliant ideas, but too disorganized and overwhelmed to make them happen. It seems no matter how hard you try—or don’t try—you just can’t seem to go from thinking to doing. Frustrating, isn’t it? Enter FreeMind software. FreeMind is a simple but powerful mind mapping/productivity program which helps you turn any worthy […]

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Who Are the Outliers of Modern Publishing?

Having just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I was struck with the immediate question: who will be the next outliers of the now-turbulent publishing industry? Who will do for the publishing world what Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Bill Joy did for the computer world? To put this question in context, I refer to Gladwell’s […]

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