Week in the News for November 18

Here are this week’s interesting publishing and media stories. Add your favorites to the comments section.

E-books, E-readers, and Apps

• In Russia, 95% of e-books are pirated. A company has developed an app to stop the trend. All Tech Considered
• Self publishing is big in Germany and has helped Amazon dominate the e-book market. Publishing Perspectives
• E-books are increasingly popular holiday gifts. Forbes

Tech

• The Internet is a valuable distraction for this writer. New York Times
• How technology changes language. Prospero
• 18 games for typography fans. Mashable

Social Media

• 10 surprising social media facts. FastCompany
• 5 tools for identifying online influencers. PR Daily
• Derek Thompson reviews the video sharing site Upworthy. The Atlantic
• The semantics of online advertising. The Guardian

Media and Publishing

• Publishing experts debate the future of the book. Publishers Weekly
• A roundup of independent print magazines and interviews with the editors. New York
• Brief interviews with very small publishers. The Morning News
• Five female writers discuss sexism in the literary world. Brooklyn Based
• Reality TV shows for writers are cropping up around the globe. The Guardian

Lifehack and Business

• How to build a strong team at work. Fast Company
• How to build a balanced creative team. 99u
• 10 brands that changed the world. AdWeek
• Coca-Cola is aiming to kill the press release. PR Daily

Writing and Grammar

• 10 types of writers’ block and how to fix them. io9
• Creative nonfiction subgenres. LitReactor
• On anonymous authorship. Page-Turner
• The import of ALL CAPS. Lingua Franca

Podcasts

• Author, publisher, and Powell’s bookseller Kevin Sampsell talks to Brad Listi. Other People
• Media strategist Ryan Holiday talks to Mitch Joel. Twist Image

For fun

• How chocolate works. How Stuff Works
  
• The science of inner speech. Scientific American

Week in the News for November 11

Here are this week’s interesting media and publishing stories. Add your favorites to the comments section.

Social Media

• Daily Facebook activity among younger teens is in decline. AdWeek
• Jenna Wortham wonders if Facebook is fading. Bits
• Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, talks about his new venture, Medium. NYT

Media and Publishing

• John Oliver leaves the Daily Show for HBO. AdWeek
• BuzzFeed Books promises positive coverage. CJR
• 10 technological innovations in TV broadcasting. Stuff of Genius

Lifehack and Business

• Five free apps to help with directions, finding cheap rooms, and learning a language. FastCompany
• Coworking spaces are on the rise. All Tech Considered
• An interview with the co-founders of Makeshift Society, a San Fran coworking space. Design Observer
• An interview with Bill Gates. Financial Times Magazine
• Is a startup or a corporate job better for your career? FastCompany

Writing and Grammar

• Can you acquire empathy through essays? UTNE Reader
• The evolving role of the OED. Financial Times
• Is it impossible to be literal? Prospero
• Should literature be useful? PageTurner
• Marketing literary nonfiction. VQR

Podcasts

• Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and lead developer for Tumblr. NextMarket
• Tim Stevens, Engadget’s former Editor-in-Chief. RIYL
• Tech columnist David Pogue talks about leaving The New York Times for Yahoo! NextMarket

For fun

• The experiment that led to the concept of “thinking outside the box.” io9
• Do our brains find certain shapes more attractive than others? Smithsonian

Link roundup for the week of October 28

Here are some of my favorite stories and news items from this week’s publishing, media, and tech reporting.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• The state of e-book sales today. Publishers Weekly
• The new NOOK GlowLight reviewed. Good E-Reader
• Amazon’s Matchbook program launched this week. TIME

Tech

• Researchers and designers are proposing new keyboard layouts for thumb typing. The Atlantic
• How to crack a Wi-Fi password (and protect your own) Lifehacker
• You don’t have to leave your gadgets behind to get away from it all. GadgetLab

Social Media

• Facebook dominates in logins; Google makes gains [infographic] SocialTimes
• At 300 million users, Google+ activity remains in question. Digits
• Is Facebook failing marketers? Digiday
• Facebook is looking to develop better consumer tracking technology. WSJ
• Has Twitter changed the role of the literary critic? NYTBR

Media and Publishing

• World Book Night US announced their 2014 selections. WBN
• Random House acquires Figment, an online writing community for young readers. Jacket Copy
• Editor & Publisher’s 2013 EPPY Award winners. E&P

Writing and Grammar

• Five best free online word processors. Mashable
• How to polish your writing. Poynter
• When to use the passive voice. CJR
• Tim Kreider on writing for free. New York Times

Lifehack and Business

• How anxiety leads decisions astray. HBR
• Top 50 executives who make wheels turn.  AdWeek
• The structure of a 60 second pitch. Fast Company
• Tick is a new to-do app. Lifehacker
• 7 apps for a faster commute. Mashable

Podcasts

• Former editor at Esquire and GQ, now editorial director of nonfiction at Random House, Andy Ward. Longform

Misc.

• The science of a great subway map. FastCoDesign
• Best Longreads accounts on Twitter. Mashable
• Paintlist, a new app by Dutch Boy, recommends paint colors based on songs. New York Times
• New iPhone app Knoala is a repository for toddler playtime ideas. Techland

Link roundup for the week of October 21

Lots of interesting media, tech, and publishing news this week. Here are just a few things that caught my eye.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• Competition in the tablet market is increasing. NYT
• 97% of newsstand apps are now free. AdWeek
• New moms spend more time on smartphones than other adults. LA Times
• Using metrics to boost e-book sales. MediaShift

Social Media

• Five tips for promoting your online events using social media. Social Times
• Facebook rolls out a new feature to help publishers increase engagement. Facebook

Media and Publishing

• A brief history of publishing [timeline] GalleyCat
• Is the gap between readers and critics widening? Publishing Perspectives
• Google gathers tools for journalists in one spot. Poynter
• To ticket or not to ticket literary events? Boswell Book Company
• Esquire Network reviewed. NYT
• Ad Age releases their annual Magazine A-List. Ad Age
• Macmillan CEO John Sargent profiled. The Bookseller

Writing and Grammar

• “E-book” keeps its hyphen in the NYT style guide update. GalleyCat
• Five best social sites for writers. Daily Dot
• How and why to promote your book in the digital age of publishing. Digital Book World
• When to leave out “that” Daily Writing Tips
• The Golden Age of Grammar myth. The New Republic
• 25 reasons Chuck Wendig loves genre fiction. Terrible Minds

Lifehack and Business

• 10 scientific studies on negotiation and influence. Smithsonian
• Why spend less time online. The Atlantic
• Seth Godin on the dangers of living in a Crystal Palace. Seth’s Blog

Podcasts

• IQ2 Debate: Copyright is Dead, Long Live the Pirates. Big Ideas
• Debbie Millman talks to book designer Chip Kidd. Design Matters
• Daniel Pink has a podcast. Office Hours

Misc

• Most popular coffee brands on Twitter [infographic] All Twitter
• Abraham Lincoln liked infographics. Elements

Link Roundup for the Week of October 14

Here are just a few things in the media and publishing world that caught my eye this week. Add your favorites in the comments section.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• Oyster iPad app has arrived. GalleyCat
• Judge appoints monitor to keep eye on Apple’s e-book business. CNET
• Five useful apps. Aliza Sherman

Social Media

• One year later, Medium is changing the way writers write and readers read. MediaShift
• Video sharing site Upworthy pairs emotional content with catchy headlines to spread social awareness. New York Times
• Online mentions: New York Times vs. Mashable [infographic] SocialTimes
• Twitter revenue more than doubles in third quarter. Bloomberg
• Does real-time marketing work? AdWeek

Media and Publishing

• Debut ratings for MSNBC’s “Up Late with Alec Baldwin” TV Newser
• Willa Paskin reviews “Up Late with Alec Baldwin” Slate
• A look inside the life of New York City newspaper hawkers. CJR

Writing and Grammar

• 9 proofreading marks for correcting people on the Internet. College Humor
• Imminent vs. eminent. CJR
• How handwriting analysis works. How Stuff Works

Lifehack and Business

• Five prefixes to use in your email subject lines. 99u
• Use your email autoresponder for maximum productivity. FastCompany

Podcasts

• Granta editor Sigrid Rausing talks about the magazine’s past, present, and future. Late Night Library
• The app generation. Leonard Lopate Show
• Jerry Seinfeld talks to Alec Baldwin. Here’s the Thing

Misc

• History of typography in five minutes. Lost at E Minor
• Research shows that Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats. Connecticut College

Link Roundup for the Week of October 7

Here’s this week’s tech, media, and book publishing news.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• E-book singles are on the rise. AppNewser
• McDonald’s is teaming up with UK publisher DK to distribute free e-books to diners. Forbes
• Kindle Paperwhite reviewed. Wired

Tech

• Young people are not as digitally native as many believe them to be. Bits
• How to get better Internet connection in your hotel room. GadgetLab
• Silicon Valley novels blur fiction and nonfiction. Bits

Social Media

• The old and new guard at Twitter. New York Times
• How to create a compelling email newsletter. Social Times
• Twitter bios and what they really say. NYT Style
• Nick Bilton on Twitter’s origins. NYT Magazine

Media and Publishing

• John Freeman, former editor of Granta, profiled. New York Observer
• Creative tech leader Andrea Colvin on digital publishing. Digital Book World

Writing and Grammar

• Write better blog posts. LitReactor
• How to hyphenate ages. GrammarGirl
• How tablets are changing the way writers work. Poynter

Lifehack and Business

• Sourcing talent for the workplace of the future. Wired
• Tame your Twitter feed by turning off retweets. GadgetLab
• What multitasking does to your brain. FastCompany

Podcasts

• American Icons: Native Son. Studio 360

Misc

• A breakdown of Twitter’s 200+ million users (funny). Geek Culture
• Edgar Allan Poe’s obituary. The Paris Review
• “Doctor Who” fans petition to light the Empire State Building in Tardis blue. CNET
• Geek vs. Nerd, this hip hop offers help with definitions. Social Times

Link Roundup for the Week of September 30

Here’s the week’s interesting tech and publishing news.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• Scribd teams up with HarperCollins and several smaller publishers for an $8.99 all-you-can-read subscription service. Salon
• The American Library Association talks about e-books in libraries. Forbes
• The Kenton County Public Library has an e-book mascot. Overdrive

Tech

• The benefits and challenges of digitizing library collections. The Atlantic
• How to fix music discovery sites. FastCoDesign
• NPR’s news app editor on designing for the mobile screen. MediaShift
• Top 20 tech hangouts in New York City. The Next Web
• 50 people in the New York tech scene you should know. The Next Web
• Technology and the college generation. NYT Style 

Social Media

• Who are the most social publishers on the web? DataBlog
• Facebook made it easier to find old status updates. Here’s how to reconfigure your privacy settings. Huffington Post
• Important facts about the Twitter IPO. Quartz 

Media and Publishing

• Top 30 news shows for the third quarter of 2013. Huffington Post
• Four things trade publishers can learn from scientific, technical and medical publishers. DBW
• Penguin Classics editorial director Elda Rotor answers questions about publishing. Reddit
• Author website tips. Jane Friedman
• 25 independent publishers. Flavorwire 

Writing and Grammar

• Smart vs. dumb quotes. FastCoDesign
• Writing life vs. the blinking cursor, four essays. Longreads

Lifehack and Business

• Career advice from top media editors. Digiday
• How effective people handle email. 99U
• How to establish a personal brand when you’re an introvert. Lifehacker
• Work, life balance advice from neuroscientists. Fast Company 

Podcasts

• Media and fashion entrepreneur Marc Ecko talks about sincerity in branding. Twist Image
• In their second segment, the Culture Gabfest discusses the state of literary criticism. Slate
• Reddit founder Alex talks about startups. Leonard Lopate Show 

Misc.

• Michael Kimmelman says we should use libraries as storm shelters. The New York Times
• 50 years of headlines from The New York Review of Books. NYRB
• From the archive, Ursula K. Le Guin reviews Italo Calvino’s “Italian Folktales” (1980). The New Republic
• A girl quit her tech job through a skit on camera, it went viral. Speakeasy

Link Roundup for the Week of September 23

Here are just a few articles on publishing, technology, and other geeky things that caught my eye this week. If you follow me on Twitter at @contextual_life you’ll find some of these and many more. Link to your favorite stories of the week in the comments section.

E-books, Readers, and Apps

• Jeff Bezos talks about the new Kindle Fires. Businessweek
• Apple now holds a patent for a digital autographing app. TechCrunch
• Earlier this summer HarperCollins invited app developers to reimagine how we discover books. The submissions are in. LitReactor
• Best apps for serious readers. Gaget Lab

Tech

• If you can’t operate your gadget, it might be the designer’s fault. The New York Times
• What web developers need to know about iOS 7. Nieman Lab
• Interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Businessweek
• Tips for making the change to iOS 7. Bits

Social Media

• Six Word Memoirs held their first Six Word Festival on Twitter. GalleyCat via Six Word’s press release
• The government is cracking down on deceptive online reviews. Bits
• A growing number of journalists are using Pinterest. Poynter
• Apple used Twitter to send out their Kindle Fire press release. All Twitter

Media and Publishing

• What makes a book worthy of being labeled “best”? Publishers Weekly
• Can countries use literature to promote tourism? Publishing Perspectives
• Author Chuck Wendig writes a letter to publishers. Terrible Minds
• Letters from a bookstore manager. Beyond the Margins

Writing and Grammar

• Is apostrophe use on the wane? Poynter
• Jen Doll’s writing advice. The Hairpin
• 10 techniques for more precise writing. Daily Writing Tips
• Writing tips from 23 authors. PLOS

Lifehack and Business

• Adweek’s 2013 Brand Genius Award winners. AdWeek
• 15 stats about online and mobile retail. Digiday
• Storytelling for business. Design Taxi
• 7 productivity apps. Fast Company

Podcasts

• A discussion about John Steinbeck’s life and work. Great Lives
• Cord Jefferson, West Coast editor at Gawker, talks about journalism. Longform
• American Icons: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Studio 360

Misc.

• Syllabus for MIT’s science fiction course. MIT
• A.J. Jacobs 3-D prints his dinner. NYT Opinion
• Farhad Manjoo says email will never die. Slate
• Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (dubstep remix) YouTube
• Follow Little, Brown on Tumblr. Here

Link roundup for the week of September 9

Lots of interesting publishing news and opinions this week. Share your favorite articles in the comments section.

E-books and Readers

• 71% of travelers prefer to fly with printed books. Good E-Reader
• Tablet sales will outpace PC sales for the first time in the final quarter of this year. Traditional PC companies are without a viable strategy. The Guardian
• If you have an Android you can customize the font on your e-reading app. TeleRead
• An all-digital library opened in Texas. Good E-Reader

Apps and Tech

• Apple’s App Store is not affected by the Justice Department ruling on price-fixing. Businessweek
• Oyster, Apple’s iPhone App, will offer all-you-can-read e-books for $9.99/mo. ZDNet
• On Monday, the F.C.C. and Verizon went to court over Net Neutrality. The New York Times
• Timeline of Net Neutrality. Public Knowledge
• The Readmill app allows e-book owners to share marginalia. Damien Walter wonders about future copyright issues. The Guardian
• Twitter to sell ads on mobile app. Bits

Social Media

• Facebook’s new Page Insights will allow businesses to track social media engagement. Poynter
• Social analytics platform Topsy has archived every tweet in existence. Here are 10 ways to use it as a publicity tool. PR Newser
• Rachel Fershleiser is leading Tumblr’s new book club. GalleyCat
• Successful real-time marketing campaigns. AdWeek
• How publishers can get the most out of Facebook marketing. Publishing Perspectives
• The perfect social media post for multiple platforms [infographic]. All Twitter

Media and Publishing

• What publishers can learn from the music industry about subscription models. Music Industry Blog
• NewsHour Weekend reviewed. CJR
• Sponsored content is on the rise. Digiday
• Percentage of time given to reporting vs. opinion at CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Poynter

Writing and Grammar

• What it means when you say something is “in one’s wheelhouse.” Lingua Franca
• Comma usage. OWL
• How to edit for a friend. Daily Writing Tips

Lifehack and Business

• Is there really such a thing as a ‘workaholic’?  The Atlantic
• Five tips for better public speaking. 99u
• A short tutorial on “Bullet Journal,” a new system for to-do lists. Co. Design

Podcasts

• Cal Morgan spoke about publishing with Brad Listi. Other People
• Alec Baldwin is getting his own show on MSNBC. Listen to his podcast Here’s the Thing. WNYC
• What marketers need to know about Google+ Hangouts. Social Media Examiner
• Mind and Machine, Part I. CBC Radio Ideas

Misc.

• Emily Nussbaum on Pivot, a new TV channel for the Internet generation. New Yorker
• “The purpose of multitasking had gone from supporting multiple users on one computer to supporting multiple desires within one person at the same time.” Elements
• Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video recreated with LEGOs. DesignTaxi

Link roundup for the week of September 2

Here’s some of the publishing and book news that caught my attention this week. Link to your finds in the comments.

E-books and Readers

• Amazon is launching KindleMatchbooks, a program that bundles print and e-books. It’s retroactive. Forbes
• The history and future of color e-paper. Engadget
• Cory Doctorow has some thoughts on libraries and e-books. Locus
• Esquire is launching a weekly tablet edition to reach a younger audience. The Guardian
• Tablet owner demographics 2013. Pew Internet
• Nicholas Carr talks about the history of paper and how we read digitally. Nautilus Magazine

What we’re learning now is that reading is a bodily activity. We take in information the way we experience the world—as much with our sense of touch as with our sense of sight. Some scientists believe that our brain actually interprets written letters and words as physical objects—a reflection of the fact that our minds evolved to perceive things, not symbols.

Apps and Tech

• Apps are on the rise, possibly because they match the way our brain works. Wired UK
• Google just launched “Chrome Apps.” Techland
• Clive Thompson on Google Glass New York Times Magazine
• Farhad Manjoo heads to The Wall Street Journal to report on tech. Digits

Social Media

• Heineken and Weiden + Kennedy New York devised a scavenger hunt using Instagram. Digiday
• Twitter is preparing to go public. Bits
• You might be tweeting your location. Huffington Post

Media and Publishing

• HuffPost Live is going global. Forbes
• What is the role of the library building in a modern city? Financial Times
• The Jeff Bezos interview. The Washington Post
• Matt Yglesias on who a newspaper’s audience should be. Moneybox
• Lizzie Skurnick talks about her new YA vintage fiction imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books. Jewish Daily Forward

Writing and Grammar

• How to work with an editor. Daily Writing Tips
• How to become a self-published author. Chuck Wendig

Lifehack and Business

• Advice to freelancers for pitching stories. Useful for placing op-eds and articles. The Atlantic
• Magazines are experimenting with various subscription models. People is the latest. AdWeek

Podcasts

• BookRiot has a podcast. It’s good. BookRiot

Misc.

• Rebecca Solnit on technology’s influence on time. London Review of Books
• Joan Juliet Buck on interviewing Bashar al-Assad’s wife for Vogue. Newsweek
• Frank Bruni on bringing your digital comforts with you while traveling. New York Times
• Take the Ishihara Color Perception Test. io9

Link roundup for the week of August 26

Here are this week’s best links collected from my daily scouring of the Internet. Share your favorites in the comment section.

E-books and Readers

• Kobo keeps pushing boundaries. Techland
• Kobo will offer magazine service on their devices starting in October. Good Ereader
• Does it make sense to bundle print and e-books? Publishing Perspectives
• The Oxford English Dictionary is not for sale (in e-book) but you can rent it. The Guardian

Apps and Tech

• The paradox of wearable technology: can devices augment our activities without ­distracting us? Technology Review
• Three apps to help declutter your work and life. Aliza Sherman
• Five apps to help you dress for fall. AppNewser

Social Media

• J Crew put their catalog on Pinterest a day before it was available elsewhere. BusinessWeek
• Twitter will allow retailers to sell products and services within tweets. Bloomberg
• Shoppers are turning to YouTube for product research before buying. AdWeek
• Alexis Madrigal deconstructs the new blogging platform Medium. The Atlantic
• How to choose a hashtag for your campaign [infographic]. All Twitter
• How to get your client’s content into Google’s new “In-Depth Articles” PR Newser

Media and Publishing

• NewsHour at a crossroads. CJR
• Al Jazeera America began broadcasting last week. Here’s how to measure their success. Poynter
• Al Jazeera America’s launch ratings. TV Newser
• Four journalist secrets every PR person should know. Cision
• Slate launched an LGBTQ blog, Outward. June Thomas is heading up the effort. Slate

Writing and grammar

• 50 plain-language substitutes for wordy phrases. Daily Writing Tips
• Eleanor Henderson on the beauty of a character’s backstory. Poets & Writers
• Sarah Gerard on keeping a keeping a notebook. Paris Review (Part I; Part II)

Lifehack and Business

• Shut down your browser tabs by accident? If you’re using Chrome, here’s a keyboard shortcut for full recovery. Slate
• 5 ways to perfect an author reading. Huffington Post
• Four steps to creating a documented procedure for delegation. Michael Hyatt
• Public speaking lessons learned from touring college campuses. Fast Company
• Four things to do before the end of each work day. MediaJobsDaily
• LinkedIn etiquette. Good.co

Podcasts

• NPR reviewer Glen Weldon talks about the books he’s read and is reading. What Are You Reading?

Misc.

• 35 innovators under 35. Technology Review
• Three bookstores got into a Twitter fight. BuzzFeed
• 101 best writers, reporters, and thinkers on the Internet. Wired
• Five websites for your photojournalism fix. CJR
• Are tech firms the new pop culture villains? GigaOm
• 20 online talks that will change your life. The Guardian

Link roundup for the week of August 19th

As a Publicity Manager specializing in online media for a publishing house, every week I’m required to put together a roundup of links to send out company-wide. Since everything looks like a blog post to a blogger I thought putting it here as well was a no-brainer. So, from here on out, I’ll have weekly link roundups featuring publishing and tech news. Please feel free to share your favorite news and sites in the comment section; I’m going to need all the help I can get!

 

E-books and Readers

• PM Press in Oakland, Calif., is the first book publisher to bundle free e-books with nearly every one of the physical books purchased on its Web site. Publishers Weekly
• How popular are digital magazines? The Guardian
• Can traditional bookstores survive? A roundup of opinions. The New York Times
• B&N reports a 20% decline in Nook revenue. AppNewser via B&N press release

Apps and Tech

• There’s a new, free scheduling app that breaks down your day into people, places, tasks, and locations. Fast Company
• Best Android Apps for writers. AppNewswer
• This interactive device is threatening to kill the mouse. FastCoLabs

Social Media

• Four tips for tweeting content. All Twitter
• 10 social media tips from the Financial Times. Journalism.co.uk
• How to use Google+ for book promotion. Digital Book World
• 10 journalism sites and media people to follow on Twitter. PR Daily
• Using multimedia in your tweets increases the chance people will share it. Poynter
• How bookstores promote events today. Shelf Talker

 Media and Publishing

• Conde Nast signed a distribution deal with Amazon that is the first of its kind. Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg said, “We want to go from selling print subscriptions to selling access to all our content.” Fast Company
• Listicles are here to stay, because the kids like them. DigiDay
• Cory Doctorow on improving book publicity in the 21st century (spoiler: know who uses NetGalley). Locus Magazine
• The “Today” show has a new book club. Publishers are happy. New York Times
• A new online and print magazine called The Riveter highlights longform writing by women. Poynter
• What’s up with cover reveals? Beyond Her Book

Writing and grammar

• “Proofreading is the last line of defense for quality control in print and online publishing.” Here are 7 proofreading steps to make sure your writing is up to snuff. Daily Writing Tips
• 9 tips for a better author bio. LitReactor

Lifehackery

• What was once called “small talk” is now “conversational intelligence.” Here are five stages of a successful conversation. WSJ
• If you still need help, here are six tips for having productive conversations. Fast Company
• A critical look at Google’s “20% time,” which allows employees to work on hobbies during work. Harvard Business Review

Podcasts and Radio

• What Lady Gaga can teach business about building and maintaining customer loyalty. Twist Image Podcast
• Freelance book publicist Lauren Cerand shares some useful insight. Late Night Library
• Media mogul and teen fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson talks to Books & Arts Daily. Radio National
• Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post, and the Future of Newspapers. On Point

Misc.

• Here’s why you’re oversharing on Facebook. Slate
• The Cronut King talks about creativity, philanthropy and copycats. DigiDay
• A handy infographic showing cell phone etiquette by country. Repair Labs