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Russ & Daughters has a blog called, appropriately, Lox Populi. Punny!

• Home | Email Standards Project
  The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
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• Lox Populi - Russ and Daughters —
  Welcome to Lox Populi, the place to head for daily updates about all things related to Russ & Daughters: bits of history, tastes of new treats, recipes, customer stories, traditions, anecdotes, kvetching, and kvelling
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• Why Malcolm Gladwell Thinks We Have Little Control Over Our Own Success -- New York Magazine
  ...all over the United States, there are the booksellers, who are hoping that, amid fears of a global recession, Outliers will prompt their customers to do that thing that’s become a rarity these days—plunk down $28—and thus offer a slim reed of hope to the sagging publishing industry. (“I don’t care that it’s Little, Brown’s book,” says one rival publishing executive. “We all desperately need some good news.”)
  (tags: writing books publishing ideas)