Just crazy enough to make some sense: "Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive" nyti.ms/1a24knZ

Great piece on selling to book publishers but relevant to any start-up selling something "new". Arthur Attwell flip.it/mk1Js

Every Brand is a Publishing Brand inpublishing.co.uk/kb/articles/ev… via InPublishing

This is why so much work is going into discovery engines: "The Absence Of Serendipity" onforb.es/I1bpLc via Forbes

Bring back Semel?? "Yahoo's Mayer Looking for TV-Sized Hit: Company talking to top Hollywood studios and agents": adweek.com/videowatch/yah…

Great to see new models that may help authors. RT Book Country: What is a hybrid publisher? Forbes breaks it down: flip.it/VWw0x.

"The most significant kind of learning in any field creates a desire to pursue learning when one doesn’t have to" bit.ly/1kGtOOR

The Perplexus is perhaps the greatest toy ever.

This snowstorm is called "Janus". Who started naming winter storms? Marketing directors looking at the pageviews a hurricane generates?

Great piece on books by Charles M. Blow."There is no intellectual equivalent to getting lost in another person’s mind". nyti.ms/LZwFmQ

Pretty hilarious rebuttal to the recent "Facebook is dying" study. m.prod.facebook.com/notes/mike-dev…

The irony of tweeting this story is not lost on me. mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/201…

Can one deep link into an app from an email message? If so, I hope LinkedIn implements soon...the mobile login screen stops me cold.

I guess the silver lining to Congress doing nothing over the last 12 months is that the prez can simply reuse last year's speech...

It’s so much more fun to watch FOX when it’s someone else being blitzed & sacked! #SuperBowl

Wolff: Putting journalism cart before advertising horse usat.ly/1eKNFUE via USA TODAY

Facebook's Paper has a slick UI (tutorial especially well done). But at root isn't it Flipboard minus my twitter feed? Not sure I get it yet

Love Google Books ngram viewer. I found out, for example, that we really are losing our innocence! bit.ly/1aAtpJz

Doctor: get an EEG. Insurance: not necessary won't pay. EEG lab: they should pay, call your doc. Doc: get an EEG. #healthcare_headaches

Wow: "During the Chinese equivalent of Black Friday, Alibaba processed more than $5.75 billion in sales" businessinsider.com/alibaba-ipo-fa…