Archive for the ‘ Digital World ’ Category
Libraries of the Future see comments for discussion of software for ePub production
Sigil – a WYSIWYG ebook editor
Colour coordination with photos
How to self-publish an ebook – a great overview article with many links to key sources
This iPad app sounds fantastic as long as you have good internet connection , according to Pogue
OnLive says that its service works great over 4G cellular connections (like the one provided by an LTE MiFi) — but 3G connections and feeble hotel Wi-Fi hot spots are too slow to be satisfying. OnLive wants at least a 2-megabits-a-second connection on your end.
BUT note company is developing a version to run on Mac and with wider selection of software
An intriguing sequence of NYT articles and associated events:
First, a narrowly conceived and curiously wrong-headed critique of collaboration The Rise of the New Groupthink January 13
Research Bought, Then Paid For January 10
Cracking Open the Scientific Process January 16
A really neat and informative diversion Open Science, Numberplay style January 16
Web Protests Piracy Bills, Four Senators Change Course January 18
NYT article on the impact of word processors on writing. I began writing my first typewritten book on a computer with the first Mac in 1984 – Bargaining in the Governance of Pacific Coastal Resources, published in 1986. Taught myself to type at the same time using a software program that ran on the Mac. Prior to that all my books were handwritten and then typed by one of the Westwater secretaries, beginning with The Uncertain Future of the Lower Fraser published in 1976.
Now that I am retired, I am much more free to read what I like, whenever I want to. So I am interested in more easily locating the good reads that are free or near-free on the web.
Courtesy of David Brooks column in today’s NYT I have stumbled across 3 great reading resources that include each of the sites I already visit on a daily or periodic basis and many, many more: