Kassia Krozser Ruined Today’s Blog Post

Like many a geek, I feverishly refreshed web pages during yesterday’s Apple event - waiting to get that next scrap of gadgety goodness Steve Jobs throws our way every so often.  The new iPod touch is actually the first iPod I have ever actually wanted, and I immediately started thinking about the applications one could [...]


The future of the e-book might be a… book?

Check out this amazing hybrid creation from Manolis Kelaidis that combines a traditional book over-printed with conductive ink. Manolis presented his project blueBook at the O’Reilly TOC conference this week and is receiving rave reviews.
From Andrea Laue:
He asked the audience if, upon encountering an obscure reference or foreign word on the page of a [...]


What Should an e-Book Be?

Yesterday, as part of my Suggested Reading I posted a link to a great post at one of my favorite programming blogs, Coding Horror.  The post is generating a lot of conversation about technology books, and in this case the books are 2 programming titles - one of which makes use of color in its [...]


Cory Doctorow on e-Books

Cory Doctorow has a nice piece in Locus magazine concerning e-books and the cliché argument that people don’t like reading on a screen. Actually he points out people do like reading on a screen, and many do it all day long.
I don’t like reading off a computer screen” — it’s a cliché of [...]