Wow, talk about re-inventing the wheel: The launch title, UNMASKED by Nicola Cornick, a Regency-set historical available from www.eBooks.eHarlequin.com, has been enriched with interactive buttons that hyperlink to Web sites containing photos, historical commentaries, illustrations, sound effects, maps, articles and more, bringing the world of the novel to life without the reader having to leave [...]
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Long article about how it's difficult to read long articles
Is Google Making Us Stupid? Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,†he wrote earlier this year. A [...]
Let's not confuse the medium with a format or system yeah?
Just saw this in the ‘From the Blogs’ section of the Grauniad Review. It references and then rips apart a blog post based on an article from the Times suggesting that ‘Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing’. Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods [...]
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The future's coming
Loving the predictions over at Read/WriteWeb Expert Systems; mentioned in Steven Spalding’s excellent post about “web 3.0″, an expert system is “a software agent that takes user input, runs it through a knowledge database and then generates an output using fancy technologies like neural nets”. Ten years from now, wrote Spalding, “Expert Systems won’t only [...]
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It's alive
Kevin Kelly noted that the web currently has 1 trillion links, 1 quintillion transistors, and 20 exabytes of memory. A single human brain has 1 trillion synapses (links), 1 quintillion neurons (transistors of sorts), and 20 exabytes of memory. Arghh, it’s coming to get us, the internet has achieved sentience. Kind of cool landmark to [...]
web two point oh
As much as I am excited about new developments in the world of the interweb; flickr, youtube, digg, delicious…etc. I can’t but help think that the rush towards web 2.0 gold might have a touch of the March 2000s about it. Sure these services are really good and there is definately a tidal shift occurring [...]
Everyware
Really like this concept, imagining a world where objects, all objects (or at least a lot of them) produce data. In everyware, the garment, the room and the street become sites of processing and mediation. Household objects from shower stalls to coffee pots are reimagined as places where facts about the world can be gathered, [...]