Deciphering the plays of William Shakespeare in a school essay was apparently not enough for two students, who wrote a book with phrases that sum up Twitter and satirical works of literature.
The “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter”, which will be released by Penguin in November in the United Kingdom is a collection [...]
Google Editions, service of digital books sale of the company, will inaugurate in June of 2010. The information was given by Amanda Edmonds, director of strategic partnerships of Google, in the TOC conference, in Frankfurt.
According to her, one of the strong points of the program is that, once bought, the e-book is going to a [...]
Neil Gaiman, known author of graphic novels, it inaugurated on this Tuesday an initiative to create a collective Twitter history, that will be compiled and published in audiobook according to BBC.
The project, partnership of Gaiman with BBC, has as objective leaves of a first sentence, created by Gaiman and published in his Twitter, to [...]
Facebook may be the most popular of all social networking sites, especially with a psychologist recently claiming that it can actually help increase users IQ, but the founding of the website was rife with troubled mishaps. The site was created by then Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskowitz.
Ben Mezrich was [...]
The woman has found herself constantly and consistently on Forbes lists of the most powerful. She says power means many things. In her magazine and website, she offers her own definition of power, as well as declares the most powerful women in her opinion.
We are aware by now that whatever Oprah believes in strongly, Oprah [...]
“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” And let’s, first and foremost, give the credit to Guy Debord for saying so about plagiarism before the [...]
An upcoming book entitled ‘Rock Roadie’ is claimed to be an insider information from one of the former production assistants of legendary rock singer Jimi Hendrix. According to James ‘Tappy’ Wright, one of Hendrix’s roadies, Hendrix’s manager Michael Jeffery, ‘made a drunken confession a year after the star’s death in September 1970’ that he killed [...]
Human beings have the moral obligation to make their species better, and make their lives and the lives of other people easier and longer. Up until the species can do something more than save lives, it is not enhancing its evolution. There is also the human ‘right to postpone death by stemming the flow of [...]
If you think nursery rhymes are safe to ingrain in children’s rote memory, think again. Hidden within the seemingly innocuous and humorous lines are images and concepts even adults will cringe over. Most nursery rhymes run the gamut of insane to inane.
Ring Around The Rosie is about the stench carried by the rashes of bubonic [...]
Catcher in the Rye is an amazing novel written in the first person narrative. The novella was authored by Existential writer J.D. Salinger in 1951. The novel was banned for sometime because of its profanity and also anti religious sentiment. The novel has been widely read and has reached a cult status.
Most teenagers and young [...]