December 22, 2011
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The best book (that I’m still reading) from 2011 is “United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense” or as history refers to it – The Pentagon Papers. The study is a 47 volume … Continue reading
August 6, 2010
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Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky‘s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and … Continue reading
July 28, 2010
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Tonight Amazon introduced a new Kindle. Set to ship August 27th, the new revision is 21% smaller and 15% lighter than its predecessor. The new unit will ship with an display E Ink that has a 20% faster refresh rate. … Continue reading
June 25, 2010
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Want to confuse customers? How about taking the “if ya can’t beat`em, join`em” approach…. I wonder what Bezos thinks about when you pull this type of capitulation. I cannot help but wonder about Amazon’s own statement: NO KINDLE REQUIRED. If … Continue reading
June 24, 2010
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In January Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated showed off their own tablet highlighting a future issue of SI for tablet users. I immediately questioned their “announcement” to produce their own tablet. Clearly the business model for ANY publisher … Continue reading
April 14, 2010
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The reason excitement for the iPad. I believe if more books like this come from the creative class we will have a revolution in reading. Books and magazines may will never be the same again. And ROIs will rise as … Continue reading
July 7, 2009
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Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University wrote The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. This book is very interesting for all … Continue reading
May 6, 2009
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With a bit of hype and fanfare Amazon.com launched a bigger Kindle DX today. The new ebook reader has a price point of $500 and supports native PDF files and bigger screen that rotates. Cool. The announcement however is not … Continue reading