Our CTO, Jason Youmans did a great job representing BiblioLife in this 30 second spot for Comcast. Supporting roles by Jonah Canter (Ops Manager), Hector Mojica (Software Engineer), and Kevin Stewart (Software Engineer). Some good shots of our work space also.

BiblioLife has been invited to present at one of the SouthEast’s top innovation and venture capital summits on March 24, 2009. Below is the description from the Innoventure Website.
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InnoVenture Southeast 2009 is a unique opportunity to hear global thought leaders and to meet several hundred talented, connected people creating what’s next. There is an explosion of opportunity at the intersection of diverse organizations and disciplines across industry, academia, entrepreneurs, investors and service providers. Prior presenters have raised over $100 million in venture and angel capital, demonstrating that the conference has attracted a pipeline of emerging companies with excellent market opportunities and strong management teams.

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We are excited to be working with the nice ladies at Your Backyard Farmer to bring back to life some of the important books of Urban Gardening published before 1923. Pioneered in 2006, YBF is an innovative approach to community supported agriculture through urban backyard farming. They create small sustainable organic method farms at the backdoor & provide fresh, in-season produce from the farm to your fork.

Our first release, The Backyard Farmer, originally published in 1917 by John Willard Bolte, will launch at the American Library Association conference in Denver later this month. It offers some unique perspectives and relevant wisdom to the “green” movement.

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From the introduction:
“Organic gardening is a name that is used currently to represent things that were done before the separation of conventional and organic (a mid to late 20th century phenomenon) gardening. When this book was written, there was limited access to synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. So growing organically was the only choice!”

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We are pretty jazzed to be working with the great folks at the  Bibliographical Center for Research in Denver, Colorado and Ingram Digital on this project. Here is the official press release. Stay tuned for more information as this program develops in 2009.

A $700 Billion Dollar bail out was just too much for the American people, so it did not pass the House in in it’s original 126 page form. An unprecedented moment of main street telling Wall Street where to stick it! Oh the drama!So instead, they passed a $850 billion dollar bill a few days later at 454 pages!  Sweet!

Browse and buy the “full version” on Amazon.com and read it all in it’s original glory.

or if you pine for the good older days of the shorter (and cheaper) version, here is the one that just was too much for the American people to stomach.

From a review on Amazon.com (this is really great, please go to Amazon and read the whole thing):

“All I can say is - WOW! It just leaps off the page. The author has an amazing ability to put you right at the heart of the story. You can almost close your eyes and just see it all happening.

The books starts off ominously - with the first section called “TROUBLED ASSETS RELIEF PROGRAM” which sets up the story perfectly. Part 2, “BUDGET-RELATED PROVISIONS” I found a bit slow. I think further editing on this section could really have helped. But then HR brings it back with the third section “TAX PROVISIONS” - incredible. Amazing literary control that combines characteristics of Dickens, Vonnegut, and Dostoevsky.

I think it would also be very interesting for kids given the approachable nature of the book - they even provide line numbers on the left-hand side of every page to help you remember what line you were reading. Handy!

All in all, I found it to be a breathtaking example of fiction writing at its very best.”

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Bookhound has found a new favorite game- the silent library game. In the event that any of you thought that the library was merely a place to check out books, or that these structures housed only paper and silverfish- you don’t know how wrong you are. Given that we’re big fans of libraries, I feel that it’s important to show you all the many possibilities of what can go on there. Please be mindful- you may wish to obtain clearance from your kind librarian prior to engaging in the silent library game.

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Turn off your cell phones! Enjoy this 30 second Librian Ninja episode.

A link to an AdAge video broadcast where the Google CEO responds to the Nicholas Carr article that was featured here on the blog a couple of weeks ago titled Adult ADHD and the decline of the book as “media”. The basic summary of Schmidt’s response: “it’s the same thing people said about TV forty years ago and we are smarter than ever”.

I am obsessed more than ever about the book as an “unplugging” from *all* electronic media and the value that ritual may offer us over the next 100 years.

Of course I am prejudiced b/c we are in the book business, but there is something therapeutic about what paper (no, not e-paper) does to my eyes if I can muster enough mental discipline to not be distracted in the first five minutes. Call me old school. I also still like taking hikes in the woods.

Watch the video here

- mitchell