The legendary sound engineer and The Sound of New York comes to speak at BitTorrent. Every Friday, we meet up for something we like to call Tech Talks. It’s one hour devoted to sharing the stuff that keeps us busy/keeps us up at night/keeps us coding. In this week’s Tech Talk: words from Young Guru,…

We maintain that comic strips were (and are) the best thing about the Sunday paper. And for ten years, with the work of Bill Watterson, they were made better still. Calvin and Hobbes is the story of a boy and his philosophically-named tiger. It’s also our own. Dear Mr. Watterson is a documentary that explores…

Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. Zecta Wars Graphic Novel This Bundle gives you a first look at Zecta Wars, a sci-fi action graphic novel set in a futuristic world named Zecta. A special…

Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the free web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for publishers. In this edition of Friday Download: a first look at Trashed, the award-winning documentary about the global waste crisis. Trashed, starring Jeremy Irons, puts a vital, hard lens on the environmental consequences of pollution, plastic,…

For author Tim Ferriss, it’s a 100% increase in book sales. Audiobooks have become big business. They’re now a $1.2 billion industry. Unit sales of downloaded audiobooks grew by nearly 30% in 2011 alone. Within this context, what’s the value of giving one away? The real question is: what’s the point? For an author, what…