{"id":16633,"date":"2010-01-31T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-31-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-01-31T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:51","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-31-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-31-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 31 January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/1K6LFsNFXkM\/about-those-blue-til.html\">About those blue lego tiles: Rob Beschizza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/01\/30\/a-quick-note-on-ebook-pricing\/\">A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx \u00ab Whatever<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m with Scalzi on all counts here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/vAGVaN8zWAo\/amazon-and-macmillan.html\">Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian  casualties<\/a> &#8211; Wow. This is pretty nasty on both company&#8217;s parts, and can only hurt both firms (and, of course the consumer).  Amazon has more at long-term risk, if they lose their &#8220;one stop shopping&#8221; rep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. About those blue lego tiles: Rob Beschizza A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx \u00ab Whatever &#8211; I&#8217;m with Scalzi on all counts here. Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-31-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 31 January 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/amazon_for_the_win.html","url_meta":{"origin":16633,"position":0},"title":"Amazon for the win","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jul-08 10:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Amazon Wish List capability -- being able to flag any item in Amazon as something you want, then being able to point friends and family at same....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23757,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/amazon-is-an-astonishingly-big-company.html","url_meta":{"origin":16633,"position":1},"title":"Amazon is an astonishingly big company","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 2:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This infographic is really very cool -- if mildly scary. 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