Below are a couple great presentations I came across via the Slideshare newsletter. The first one is from a year ago and does a bang-up job of explaining what social media is and why it's important. The second is a sequel of sorts that updates some of the information for today. This is especially timely […]
Some of the folks on MetaFilter are reporting bugs but after a few trials (admittedly with fairly well-known and recent books), I had no problems with BookSeer. It's nothing ground-breaking – simply a pretty cool interface to present the book recommendations provided by Amazon and LibraryThing in a unique, streamlined fashion.
As I mentioned before, the first book I downloaded to read on my new iPhone is “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow. I'm quite enjoying it – both the story and the convenience of always having a book with me in a very compact form. I also just finished “Free: The Future of A Radical Price” […]
I can't help but use my “Digital Footprints” tag on this story! “The landscape depicted corresponds exactly to the surrounding geography,” she said. “Complete with herds of ibex marked on one of the mountains visible from the cave itself.” The research, which is published in the latest edition of the Journal of Human Evolution, furthers […]
For the last year or so, there's been a web meme going around where people replace the sub-titles in the bunker scene from the German movie “Downfall” with their own interpretation – whether it's “Hitler Finds Out Michael Jackson Died”, “Hitler Finds Out The Ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” or the following […]
Living in the age of e-mail, Facebook and pre-authorized payment, I had a moment with Pace today that is a rarity in today's world. When I bought my iPhone, I didn't think to sign up for pre-authorized payment so I had to write out a cheque and walk a couple blocks to the nearest mailbox […]
I recently came across two articles that propose radically different visions of the future of newspapers. The two articles took specific interest in the New York Times which many consider the “newspaper of record” for the United States but which, like many newspapers, has been hemorrhaging money in recent years. In the first article, a […]
Amazing what getting a mobile phone will do in terms of making your realise that your blog is quite, uhm…heavy…with all kinds of marginally useful widgets, random links and assorted other junk. Luckily, there's a really easy way to use Google Reader to create a poor man's mobile version of your blog.Just bookmark the following […]
Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
I found out about Paul MacLeod because I saw that Hawksley Workman had produced one of his early albums. (Oh, I see Hawksley did a few of them actually.) I downloaded this song which I found on Napster or another early file sharing service then went out and bought the entire album (yes, I know, […]
