Category: downloads

  • Social Network Creep

    Social Network Creep

    If you’re intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep”—you’ll…

  • Design Apps for Fun and Profit

    Design Apps for Fun and Profit

    Update! Episode 14 is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big…

  • Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    Crowdsourcing Dickens

    As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…

  • Doctorow on Pricing

    Doctorow on Pricing

    In Publishers Weekly, blogger, novelist, and bon vivant Cory Doctorow discusses price discrimination(“the idea that you make more money by segmenting your customers based on how much they’re willing to spend”) and demand elasticity (“the straightforward…

  • Chicago Deep Dish

    Chicago Deep Dish

    AEA Chicago, wrapped.

  • For your pleasure

    For your pleasure

    Reviving an old zeldman.com tradition, we once again present downloadable desktop images for your computer screen and pleasure. Number one in a series: Meet Harry.

  • Kindling

    Kindling

    The process by which books are converted to Kindle format introduces errors which do not get corrected. Every publisher knows this, though none will say so on record. The problem is one of economics. The…

  • “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book

    “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.

  • Desktop No. 211

    Desktop No. 211

    In the tradition of our classic 1990s wallpapers, please enjoy Zeldman Desktop No. 211 for your home or office screen beautification needs.