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My sister returned from Shanghai last week, bearing amongst other things a snazzy new Mao t-shirt. Apparently it “had my name on it” although I can’t decipher the characters.
Placed lovingly beside my existing East German and Soviet themed shirts, this new Mao constitutes a shift from coincidence to collection of ironic socialist-themed t-shirts.
Continue Reading →Long an interested observer in the role of technology in the classroom, I must admit some dissapointment in skimming the results of several recently completed studies indicating that classrooms full of computers and technology don’t actually generate any observable benefit in academic performance on the part of students.
First, I do think it’s important to [...]
Continue Reading →Much has been written and said following the revelation that Apple’s devices maintain a database (to use the term loosely) with entries, that, properly parsed, can be used to demonstrate more or less where the iPhone has been geographically over the course of it’s little iLife.
So: Is this a problem, and if so, how [...]
Continue Reading →An interesting read on technology journal FIN’s site, Joseph Walker’s article provides some insights into the approaches (or in some cases the lack thereof ) at several major publishing houses in adjusting to the rising tide of digital content consumption. There isn’t much I could add to [...]
Continue Reading →InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman is absolutely right in asserting that the NYT’s introduction of it’s tiered paywall is a necessary development, but that the media giant has gotten its price structures horribly confused, and, as a result, the unhappy experiment will probably fail miserably (again).
While continuing to provide the anonymous masses unfettered free access to [...]
Continue Reading →Apple today unveiled a slew of new features within its iBooks app, specifically targeting the ability of publishers to create rich media books (such as children’s or art books) that adhere to stricter visual standards than traditional free-flowing texts found in the app so far. One problem: These features are only available as yet to [...]
Continue Reading →I was fortunate enough to recently score an invite to NYC Book Camp, dubbed a “non-conference”, it was a loosely-structured forum on the future of publishing.
As my recent foray into the world of app development spawned largely from a desire to be a part of the migration from printed page to pixel, I [...]
Continue Reading →The New York Times is running an interesting article today discussing the thoughts and concerns of some Brooklyn based developers who are publishing their work as applications for Apple’s iOS.
Adderall Diaries Blurs Books-Apps Line draws attention to a number of issues, including, most interestingly to me, that of the editorial over-sight posed by [...]
Continue Reading →Google: All websites are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Continue Reading →The internet is abuzz this week with the U.S. Copyright Office’s ruling that consumers in the United States have the legal right to over-ride software that ships on their mobile devices, this to the objection of many manufacturers including Apple. While much has been said about the ruling, I’ve read very little in the way [...]
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