Bookplates in the modern world
Some friends and I were talking about bookplates (see link below to definition). My friend’s father had one, full of personal symbolism, on a few very old...
Category: The Narrative
Book by Craig Venter – A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
Well, I was wondering when someone would write a book about Venter (who deserves a Nobel, a few times over). Turns out he wrote one himself. I think I gotta get...
Stephen Johnston in Vodafone Receiver #19 on: Thoughts on 3.0 – this time with added You-nicorn
Stephen Johnston has contributed an article to Vodafone’s Receiver mag (see link below). Cool (way to go, Stephen). He pegs the current discussion around ...
Ah, con-men exist in every medium
I also got a shoulder tap about some shady dealing (see link below) from an online publisher. It not only bugs me that this gives other publishers a bad name an...
Ty Burr says ‘Blade Runner’ is better than ever, in The Boston Globe
So far, Ty Burr has never disappointed me. What he likes, I do. What he doesn’t, same here. Now he mentions the latest Blade Runner release (see link belo...
Do community tools mix with scientific papers?
I’ve been doing some reading on Open Access Publishing, providing free public access to scientific papers. The two publishers I know the best are Public L...
Mowser get me thinking of emerging markets again
Previously, I mentioned Mowser, the mobile-savvy transcoder by Russ Beattie. It’s really cool that he has so much traffic. But, it’s even cooler to ...
It always take two failures to make a real problem
A CEO (who has now moved on to greater things) of a large and popular Web service once was relating to me a tale of one of his major embarrassing outages and me...
Twitter SMS quotas
Got the following message from Twitter the other day: “You have 10 incoming sms updates remaining this week. Try receiving unlimited updates at m.twitter....
Comment on: “The Demise of Mobile???” at Blue Flavor
I was trying to leave a comment on this site and was having a hard time. So I decided to post it here. "Good set of comments. Buiding ovi.com for Nokia, I ...