Media

Kindling

October 15, 2010
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I’ve been looking at the Kindle. I installed the Kindle app on my iPad and must say I’m impressed. But maybe not in the way a lot of people see it. Instead of something that allows me to lug lots of books around instead I see it as the means to an end. At the moment my house has thousands of books in it. They’re everywhere. My biggest problem is I love books and read 50 – 100 per year. Problem is, more than that many interesting books are published per year. Take into account yesterday. I wandered through Chapters here in town and immediately saw 4 books I wanted to buy. I had to restrain myself, but in the end bought 2 anyway. Sigh. The problem I have is one of space. At the moment I still have some room for books, but that will end. And I doubt I can convince my wife to allow me to have yet another room filled with bookcases. So, I have to come up with a solution and the Kindle is a major part of that solution. Instead of always buying physical books I have decided to separate my reading into three

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It’s Baaaack!

February 5, 2008
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My favourite dot com publication, The Industry Standard is back! I’ve only looked at it quickly this AM when I found out the public beta was available. They have an interesting line up of pundits and seem to be accepting articles from others. I believe they’re restricting articles to no more than 3 per person per week, thus keeping some semblance of variety. I’ve put it on my morning rotation. Hopefully it’ll keep me as enthralled as the original publication did.

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Media as a Utility

December 30, 2007
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I see that New Yorker Magazine just did something very nifty: The Complete New Yorker Portable Hard Drive. Although having it online as a subscription service would be great, too, this is an awesome thing to have it if you want to read past articles, search articles, or just relax by reading stuff from the past — recollections or articles friends have pointed you towards. Of course, I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time, but not just for the New Yorker. No, what I would love to see is Analog (nee Astounding) and other SF magazines provide their old issues in a digital format. I do realize that there’s some level of difficulty in doing so, what with getting rights from the various authors, scanning in art, entering all the text, etc. However, I’m sure there are enough fans out there that they’d help do most of the heavy lifting and provide it back to the various owners of the rights gratis, ala Wikipedia. Imagine if you could access, whenever you wanted, entire issues of Analog/Astounding, IASFM, Worlds of If, Galaxy, F&SF, etc.! You could simply ask to read stories by the likes of Larry Niven

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