You’re all in luck. Today’s issue of The New Yorker features a very fine article by the excellent writer Nicholson Baker on the Amazon Kindle. Titled “A New Page: Can the Kindle Really Improve on the Book?”, this article is certainly the best-written I’ve seen yet on this overly- and endlessly-discussed subject, as well as [...]
I don’t watch television so have to rely on surfing the Web to find fun things that are broadcast on TV. Seems a bit roundabout, no?
At any rate, I caught this fun snippet of Kevin Spacey explaining Twitter to David Letterman, and offering some advice on the etiquette of tweeting.
Meanwhile the New York Times reported [...]
I’ve avoided commenting on the controversy this week when Amazon realized it was selling an eBook of George Orwell’s 1984 that the vendor did not own the rights to sell to Amazon and its customers. I knew that there would be lots of back and forth to fill the blogger trough. Of course the story became [...]
There’s something truly magical when you discover a phenomena that could be judged as very technologically small and yet becomes something very big (in the “real world”). Such an incident has occurred around Brushes, an iPhone/iPod Touch application that can create lovely illustrations, deep and emotional in nature, all for $4.99 on the Apple devices [...]
Two photos of the sign at my local Presbyterian church…I caught a glimpse going by on the bus, and had to walk back to record this deep and thoughtful cautionary note for the digital age!
Here’s another angle:
If you’d like to use these images elsewhere, please be sure to reference: Copyright 2009 by Thad McIlroy and [...]
There’s an interesting article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal called “Publisher Delays E-Book Amid Debate on Pricing.” Upon first read, or for those not immersed in the issues surrounding the retailing of eBooks on Amazon, it sounds like no big deal. The article starts with:
A leading independent publisher is saying no to the e-book format [...]
We’ve seen it all before in the long-forgotten days of print journalism. One minute you’re reading a story about a great new restaurant in a newspaper or city magazine and then you turn the page and, oh-my-gosh, there’s an advertisement from the very same restaurant. What a coincidence! Publishers have struggled with paid “journalism” since [...]
I missed it in March, but caught it today. As part of the 31 magazines that have folded in the first 6-months of 2009 in Canada, we will now be deprived of “Wedding Essentials For Same-Sex Couples.”
Brandon Jones, who with his wife Christine publishes Wedding Essentials, noted that because they are not gay it was [...]
If, like me, you check in frequently for the “hot” topics floating around the Internet, you’ll have run into a near-nauseating avalanche of articles, reviews, blog postings, interviews and tweets about Chis Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.” (Curiously the publisher lists the title as “Free: The Past and (emphasis mine) [...]
One of the ongoing hot-topics in the eBook reader debate centers around the perceived need for eBook readers to be able to display color images in a user-acceptable fashion.
epapercentral reports on one of the most recent attempts to tackle the challenge (there are many others, at various stages of development).
According to the report, “Pixel Qi [...]
