February 24, 2009 – 5:10 pm
David Pogue reviews the updated Kindle: “So, for the thousandth time: is this the end of the printed book?”
And Chris Loring again asks, should the Libraries buy one to experiment with?
I say yes, for this reason alone: “It’s all a thousand times more convenient and more exciting than loading books from a PC [...]
February 20, 2009 – 12:04 pm
Great little video on the importance of context for getting at information and knowing;
February 10, 2009 – 6:06 pm
Amazon gave details of the Kindle 2 earlier this week. Click the image and here me talk a little about it and see the beginning of an Amazon video, which can be seen in its entirely here.
Details: Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, about a pencil width. Lightweight: 10.2 ounces, lighter than a [...]
February 9, 2009 – 6:34 pm
At The Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division’s annual conference last week, the inexorable move to e-print got a lot of attention from conference participants.
Some quotes:
“My advice to you is, unfortunately, to start rethinking everything…”
“…the e-book trade “has the potential to rebuild the monograph business…””
“A book sale is a book sale, and [...]
February 6, 2009 – 12:22 pm
There are some very interesting bits in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired campus : education-technology news from around the Web. Here are some snippets to entice you to follow the links:
“Lev Gonick: More on What Wikis Teach Us About Leadership”
“It is time for new leadership rules to align organizations to the realities of the [...]
