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New Fast Company: Kindle and Orwell and Clouds
Oh my. New Fast Company essay is now up: Head in the Clouds looks at cloud computing in light of Amazon's nuking of purchased Kindle copies of 1984 and Animal Farm. Now, the Kindle is not a cloud computing system,...
Human Interfaces
Warren Ellis: Clay Shirky’s line about how anything that ships without a mouse is broken — that’s her [his daughter's] generation. (I still think he was just one foot behind the time — I understand he was working from an...
Hacking the Earth -- Now at Amazon, and on Kindle!
My publish-on-demand book on geoengineering, Hacking the Earth, has been picked up on Amazon.com. This is happy-making for a couple of reasons. The first is that this means people who have heard about the book and go looking for it...
A Thin Slab of Book
The Kindle is one of those devices that tends to elicit one of two responses: "waste of money" or "must have it now." For quite awhile, I had the first reaction. Then, after what one might call a "context shift,"...
John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin' Man
You might remember the story of old John Henry. He built rail lines, and could work harder and faster than any man alive. When the company brought in a steam-driven rail driving machine, though, they announced that they were going...
Topsight: February 4, 2009
• The Year Ahead, Sterling-style: Bruce Sterling and his European alternate identity Bruno Argento both present visions of what 2009 will hold in the latest edition of Seed magazine. Bruce's is the pessimistic view -- 2009 Will Be a...
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