November 2011
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August 2011
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Can the Kindle Tablet learn from the XO Laptop? →
russianpencil:
I was inspired by the discussion Marco Arment and Ryan Irelan had on the latest episode of Build and Analyze about the rumored “Kindle Tablet.” It got me thinking about the kind of device I would love for Amazon to make — one that I would actually consider buying over an iPad.
I’d like to build on the two seemingly incongruous ideas proposed by Marco Arment and Dan...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Jekyll and Hyde: the two faces of The New York...
A quick analysis why the $20/month pricetag on the iPad version of The New York Times is audacious. At a premium price, is it wrong to expect a premium product? As I suggested earlier, perhaps the Times should leave the innovative approaches to layout to those who are doing it best: iPad app developers.
(Screen grab from May 8, 2011 New York Times iPad edition. View full size version here)
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Why the NYT should license content to app...
What if we could subscribe to The New York Times through popular iPad reading apps, like FlipBoard or Instapaper?
The New York Times iPad app is thoroughly disappointing — and even more so now that the paper charges a premium ($20/month) to access it. It contains no links, has little regard for readability and its interface is rigid and ill-conceived.
All too often, I find myself straying from...
April 2011
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What Books Will Become.
What books have always wanted was to be annotated, marked up, underlined, dog-eared, summarized, cross-referenced, hyperlinked, shared, and talked-to. Being digital allows them to do all that and more. (source: Kevin Kelly, The Technium: What Books Will Become. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/what_books_will.php)
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Why we shouldn't aspire to grammatical... →
The image I used in the post below is one I made for another article I wrote for Newsvine (back when I was writing there) a few years ago when I was teaching high school English. The apostrophe piece retreads a lot that stuff, but the discussion that ensued was interesting.
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I'm appalled that you're appalled by bad grammar.
A New York Times letter to the editor from way back in February contains the following sentence:
Last year, I was appalled to receive a mass mailing from my son’s large, prestigious university prominently titled “Important Reading for Parent’s and Student’s.
A bit out of character from a university, but I always cringe when I hear people say they are appalled by bad grammar. Human language...
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“I think the Kindle is fast becoming a symbol of intellectual seriousness — a...”
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Backyard Slow Motion Camera Toss. Shot on a Casio EXILM FH100 at 240 FPS.
March 2011
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January 2011
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