Kinda along the lines of the key difference between my perspective and Man Ching’s: “Nevertheless, Truss acknowledges that ‘this is an exciting time for the written word: it is adapting to the ascendant medium, which happens to be the most immediate, universal, and democratic medium that has ever existed.’ With the ever-expanding power of the [...]
Documents To Go 7 is out and ready for download. The new features are interesting, even compelling, but I don’t know. $29.99 is a lot of money to upgrade from version 6, which frankly works well enough on my Zodiac. I like the full screen feature, and know that would rock with my Palm Wireless [...]
The BBC : Killings by pirates on the rise || kuro5hin.org: “Though to some modern pirates may seem to be anachronistic, absurd, and unimportant, the BBC recently reported that the International Maritime Bureau, the body that monitors pirate killings around the world, has observed a sharp and worrisome increase in the number of ship crews [...]
Figured I’d weigh in on the blogging thing in my first post here at WOYP. I think both Jeff and Man Ching have good points. As a reader, I like the combination of editorial-style blogs and quick links to other postings. Blogs that contain all of either just don’t hold my interest for very long. [...]
Tim Wu has something interesting going on over at Lessig’s Blog:
On Piracy. If it is true, first, that widespread piracy at some point diminishes the incentives for industry to invest in new works;
And if it is true, second, that piracy is limited to a demographic, say, 15-25 year-olds (perhaps because people older than that are [...]
pdaConverter is a Windows program that makes creating new AportisDoc, Plucker or zTXT (for TiBR) files a breeze. The new version contains a lot of changes:
# Conduit Update: Install to any directory on card
# Updated translations, new czech translation
# Bugfix: Path to Plucker Desktop
# Bugfix: Crash Plucker Desktop after pdaConverter uninstall
Major changes since version 1.2:
# [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital memories survive extremes: “‘We’ve tested the durability of the leading memory card forms and have found that even if your camera doesn’t remain intact, your precious memories should,’ said Geoff Harris, editor of Digital Camera Shopper.
‘We knew modern memory cards were durable, but had no idea they would be [...]
This is fun. A real debate on this site…
I have to take issue with Man Ching’s argument. While I really liked his observation that blogs are a great opportunity to create meaning and context for what we link to, I don’t think quick “link and dump” blogging is necessarily irrelevant. It gets back to Man [...]
Sony’s in the handheld news again on speculation that they may re-enter the handheld market without PalmOS. Rumor has it that Sony wasn’t happy with the direction PalmSource had in mind, so they quit. But that’s only part of the story, and the full tale hints at how and why they might return.
Like many large [...]
I don’t like the blogging format. I’m not a link and dump kinda guy. Filtering is a good thing, and time is the ultimate arbiter of worth, if one spends it wisely. The corollary to the idea that the wide open net fosters artisanal communication (that is, the combining of textual, visual, and aural means [...]