I love Joi Ito's advice about startups. Mostly he is talking about understanding risk. I particularly focused on one section just after 9 minutes into the video where he talks about how it’s folly to s … [Read more...]
Pad Computing in Sci-Fi and in Real Life
The iPad immediately led me to think about how tablet computing is portrayed in science fiction. TV and movies - because that’s the only place you actually saw little beasties like these 10 or 20 ye … [Read more...]
Artificial Countries
I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was … [Read more...]
Heavy metal in Baghdad
I’ve never gotten seriously into heavy metal, but on occasion I pig out on grunge music for a few hours, and today I was listening to an NPR Music Fresh Air podcast where Dave Davies interviewed the m … [Read more...]
The Future of Publishing – by DK
Here’s a novel way of looking at how we (maybe) fit into the future of publishing—Dorling Kindersley Books did a video about The Future of Publishing, initially for internal consumption, but later on t … [Read more...]
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