October 2009
61 posts
I rather agree with Ulin. I feel like I have to choose between working through every Google Reader update on my laptop (being slightly OCD doesn’t help much), or snuggling into bed with a good book, whether it’s made of dead trees or pixels. Often, the former wins out, though I suspect I’d read a lot more if had a longish commute by public transportation to work or school. When I had take the train to Berkeley from Santa Clara for my internship last December, I pretty much finished a book a day.
Magnificent page-turner, incredibly spunky female characters. I had to give my Sony Reader a good wipe-down after I finished reading The Poisonwood Bible — I couldn’t put it down and got breakfast crumbs and um, toothpaste flecks on it.
Formatting: A. What I thought were spelling mistakes turned out to be malapropisms. No obvious typesetting problems as far as I can tell.
Source: Sony eBookstore.
The new model for news curation and selection, I feel, will be a balance of professional editing and collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news organizations will look at feeds from highly respected news fans, and that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.
Aside, why are certain sentences bolded? Is it Newmark’s doing? Or a newfangled editorial convention to facilitate skimming?
Just read this to bring yourself up to speed if you’re confused by the rash of releases and news.
