Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 1 January 2015

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.

  • 30 fun­ni­est car­toons about ebooks and dig­i­tal reading
    A list of the fun­ni­est com­ic strips and car­toons about ebooks, e‑readers, and read­ing in dig­i­tal times.
  • Confessions of an Independent Publisher

    A few months ago, Jimmy Wilson got in touch and asked me a bunch of ques­tions about pub­lish­ing. They were great ques­tions and, as many of them were ones that I get asked a lot, I said I’d pub­lish my answers as a blog post. It’s tak­en me a while to get round to it (sor­ry, Jimmy), but — hot on the heels of Lagom’s launch — here they are: 

  • Start an Aerial Photography Drone Business

    If you’re look­ing to be at the front of the curve in start­ing a drone-based pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness, here’s how. 

  • 9 Ways Authors Can Use IFTTT Recipes
    Here are links to 9 of my favorite IFTTT recipes to help authors be more productive:

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  • Behind the App: The Story of LastPass
    LastPass was born from such a need, as Joe Siegrist and his co-founders need­ed a way to man­age their own pass­words out of neces­si­ty. They set out to cre­ate a plat­form for man­ag­ing ran­dom­ly gen­er­at­ed, secure pass­words, regard­less of when and whe…