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Technology

This video is like a multivitamin for your Sense of Wonder

December 21, 2009 It's a SciFi World

(cross-posted via Posterous)

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Publishing’s suicide

December 5, 2009 Being a Writer

Jesse Kornbluth from PW:

Book publishing has been trying to commit suicide for all the decades I’ve been writing, and now it’s finally getting some traction on that project. Its latest folly is ironic: one of our most antitechnology businesses now places unrealistic hopes on technology as a savior, a textbook case of an American [...]

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Interesting (failed?) experiment in microserialization

December 3, 2009 Being a Writer
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From Galleycat:

Earlier this week, the literary journal Electric Literature launched a “microserialization” experiment by publishing a new story by Rick Moody(pictured) on Twitter–co-publishing the story on other Twitter feeds, including the Vroman’s Books feed. Jacket Copy summarized the frustration that some Twitter users felt with the simultaneous delivery: “In the past, having bookstores, bloggers [...]

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Two Years

November 17, 2009 Observations
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Two years ago today, this happened. And I don’t mean my son’s tooth coming in; of course, I mean that I first tweeted.
What a weird two years.
As I’ve become increasingly engaged with some kind of Twitter community, I’ve encountered: love, anger, births, deaths, proposals, breakups, people gone missing, people found. Warmth, filth, and everything in [...]

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Birdhouse in my soul

April 13, 2009 Technology

Not 100% sold on the app, but goddamn this is a great screencast.

And as usual, Scott Simpson steals the show.

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Surprise! Birkerts resists the Kindle

March 13, 2009 Observations

Scott Esposito lines up Sven Birkerts’ Atlantic humbug on the Kindle.
There was a time (well over a decade ago now) when I thought Birkerts was a hero for The Gutenberg Elegies. But now I’m with Scott: at this point Birkerts just seems spent.

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Managing Your Digital Life

March 11, 2009 Stuff I Like

The more we trust our lives to digital technologies, the more we need to be conscious about how we’re managing all our accumulated digital stuff.
As my wife and co-workers know, I am already ridiculously obsessive about backup, data portability and futureproofing. But I’m always looking for a new ideas and best practices…so I’m pretty stoked [...]

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Comparing Kindles

March 4, 2009 Technology

Here’s a great overview of the distinctions between the “real Kindle” and the new Kindle iPhone app:
Comparing Kindle 2 with Kindle’s iPhone app | Crave – CNET.
All that aside, I am sticking with my previous reaction.

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Whispernet, indeed

March 1, 2009 Reading

I’ve worked in publishing. I’ve been a part of rights negotiations with writers. And I understand the Authors Guild point of protecting their right to sell the audio rights to their work. But Amazon backing off of text-to-speech on K2 feels a bit like bullshit.
It’s not like the text-to-speech feature is all that great. I’m [...]

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Keys to the Kingdom

February 25, 2009 Reading
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My Kindle arrived yesterday. First impressions were not quite up to the technolust I feel when opening a box “Designed by Apple in California,” but pretty darned good. Amazon has done a nice job with the packaging and merchandising here. I particularly appreciate that the Kindle arrives already linked to my Amazon account. It literally [...]

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