Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I saw this on Wired, a piece by Eliot van Buskirk. Sony is thankfully the lesser part of the story as it turns out. What Smashwords is doing is building a one stop site for self publishing ebooks through partnerships with not only Sony, but also Barnes & Noble and ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Michel over at the P2P Foundation, a group interested in peer production and peering models of all sorts, has some more background on Feedbooks. He contact them and they appear to have gladly given him some more information on their technology choices, features and how they'd ideally like to ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
I have been trying to resist using my iPod Touch for much more than music playing as I am a recovering PDA addict. However, recently its potential for reading e-books has been revealed to me through a nice little (non-free) app, Annotater. Honestly, I installed it more so ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I have been peripherally aware of Jonathan Zittrain's new book, "The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It".
Reader Kevin Crosby wrote in to recommend an interview with Zittrain on the podcast, Lawyer to Lawyer.
This is a legal podcast which does a survey review of hot topics. ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
No Starch is a fun, smaller, technology oriented publisher. As such, it is hardly surprising they would be willing to experiment with direct distribution through BitTorrent. They are releasing two titles, both by Leander Kahney noted Wired.com columnist; Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod. The books ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Groklaw posted the transcript of a great interview with Nicholas Reville of Miro and the Participatory Culture Foundation. Miro is an open source media player built on democratic principles, both in access to open media as well as how it is built and used. If you haven't tried ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I very much admire people like Violet Blue and Cory Doctorow. They both are so busy and dedicated to what they believe in, it seems everything they touch turns to gold.
What I love about the Open movement is it can define the most amazing stuff. Sure, I can release novels ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
One of the challenges of enjoying and supporting open media is discovering it in the first place. One of Mur's main goals for this site is to spotlight some of the best of what is out there. There is far more open media, though, than one person, or ...
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