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Jan.24.2013
Rankings, Ratings, and Statistics—how many #1 Best Sellers are there? Technically, at any given moment in time, there should be only one, right? (Name that movie/television series.) Yet we see people boasting that they’re best-selling authors all the time. How...
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Mar.25.2012
"At 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz [now a founder of a growing data mart, Factual] wrote, 'I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart.'" (NYT, Sunday Business, March 25th, 2012) He now is. I am glad. What's next?
"The world is one big data problem," Mr. Elbaz says. And he...
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Jul.22.2011
I can’t talk. I doubt that I can write. I wonder if this is what a panic attack feels like. If I ran on electricity and I was born twenty years earlier than I was, we would say that perhaps I blew a fuse. These days perhaps I am in search of that grey panel box where perhaps I can resuscitate...
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Jun.18.2011
Don't forget my buy 1 get 1 free sale. Check my Deals and Steals tab at Terry's Place for details.
I was talking about sales figures yesterday, and numbers and stats are stuck in my brain. A while back, I did a post on Time Management, and I illustrated it with the image you see here.
About two...
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May.21.2011
New Statistics Available: Bowker Releases Annual Book Production Report by Gary D. Price
Traditional publishing grows a modest 5%, while POD sends print total over a record 3 million
Bowker [has] released their annual report on U.S. print book publishing, compiled from its Books In Print database...
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Mar.10.2011
One of the most difficult things in my recovery was having to actually say the words: "My father raped me when I was 13 years old." It conjured up, even in my mind, such yucky and uncomfortable visions that I wished there were a nice way to say it. But there wasn't and say it I did. What...
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Dec.07.2010
It is hard to get my mind wrapped around statistics below that were published on CBS News and World, November 26, 2010.
(AP)”A new survey says more than one in three South African men admit to having committed rape.
A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in...
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Nov.02.2010
In Tibetan Buddhism there is a fish-release ceremeony in which practictioners throw fish that have been caught--still alive, destined for markets--back into the water. Carp and sole, momentarily stunned, dip down into the water, fill their gills and swim away.
When a novel is launched it always...
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Aug.12.2010
Yesterday's talk about supporting others, hit counters, and the author ego led me to today's post. (And thanks for all the comments).
A note – it's not a particularly 'fun' post today, although I don't mean it to come across as whining, but if you'd rather go off and play, here's a book cover...
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Jun.28.2010
Boer War records show 86 were struck by lightningGetting struck by lightning was a real hazard for British soldiers in the Second Boer War, according to military records put online for the first time.
By Stephen Adams
On one occasion two soldiers were killed within moments of each other, when...
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