Monthly Archives: April 2011

Information resource of the future here now – would you call this a book?

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

Push Pop Press just released a new iPad information product they describe as the future of the book. The demo product is Al Gore’s Our Choice. I encountered a description of this product in a description from MacWorld and immediately … Continue reading →

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Delicious changes hands

Posted on April 28, 2011 by admin

Remember when Yahoo! was going to dump Delicious and then it wasn’t going to dump Delicious. Now, TechCrunch reports that Yahoo! has sold Delicious to YouTube Founders. The YouTube founders now own a company named AVOS (YouTube now being owned … Continue reading →

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Taking a chance on the “long form”

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

We drove back from Minneapolis today and as is our custom we listened to TWIT podcasts. How many couples can say that? The MacBreak Weekly session featured a discussion with ex-Engadget editor  Nilay Patel. Most of the discussion focused on … Continue reading →

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Amazon Cloud Player

Posted on April 18, 2011 by admin

I like the concept of Amazon’s Cloud player – player your own music from the cloud. However I have heavily invested my time in LastFM and it seemed there was now way to scrobble my plays from Cloud Player to … Continue reading →

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Expertise

Posted on April 17, 2011 by admin

Yes, this is me. Cindy was fooling around with the camera feature on the new iPad2 and came up with this image. The quality of the image or of the subject of the image is not the issue here, but … Continue reading →

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Is the future determined by the end of third grade?

Posted on April 14, 2011 by admin

I was in New Orleans at AERA yesterday, but learned of one of the more interesting studies presented after returning home and reading through my blog list. This summary of the AERA paper by Donald J. Hernandez indicates that reading proficiency … Continue reading →

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