Posts under ‘The Web’

For people who might not follow this story all ready, here is a brief recap for you:
1. Amazon’s Kindle ruled the ebook market despite limited competition from a few other companies like Sony and Barns & Noble.
-It seemed that Amazon liked selling most ebooks for about $9.99 even though publishers wanted to sell ebooks [...]

Recently I found out via twitter that Cory Doctorow is offering his new novel “Makers” for free, which is nothing out of the ordinary, Doctorow has made all of his books 100% freely available through the web for many years now. However, what makes this new novel titled “Makers” different is the distro method which [...]

Dear Reading Public,
I have said this again and again, and now I’m going to say it again. I honestly don’t know why I keep saying it over and over, maybe I think that if I say it (or write it, podcast it, email it, or whatever) enough, it will sink in.
Print is [...]

Today I was reading the Arts section of the New York Times web site, and I found this story by Noah Berger about an interesting sort of “interactive novel” which reminded me of Penguin Book’s we tell stories project that won Web Award at SXSW this year.

PLENTY of authors dream of writing the [...]

… something happens that really brings a huge smile to my face. Take today for example, I woke up and checked my email, and I read Cory Doctorow’s goodbye 2008 bring on 2009 email.
Cory says:

Who the hell knows what’ll happen in 2009? It’s definitely the most uncertain new year I can remember. One thing I’m [...]

Everyone has a blog, but very few people have what I think are very good blogs. There is a small list of blogs that I do check almost every single day, and I thought that it might be nice to list them here.
I’ve also stated three reasons that I each of these blogs is on [...]

Do you use Twitter? 
Ok.  That was a rhetorical question.  Of course you use Twitter.  I mean who the hell does not use Twitter, right?
Here is the thing: You have not REALLY used Twitter until you used TweetDeck.  I say that because after using TweetDeck for many months now I see it as the Mercedes of Twitter [...]

Many people who read this blog my not know it, but I have another blog called All-A-Twitter that I use to talk about microblogging in general.
One of the ways that I get content for that blog is doing google news searches for Twitter, then if there is something interesting I summarize it and post it.
Today [...]

For as long as I have been involved in the new media scene there has been a rather consistent bit of (mostly) health debate about the negative V. the positive effects of the “monetizing” new media such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, etc.  My stance has always been that I see nothing wrong with making money [...]

A few days back Dave Fleet blogged about a web based service called Back Type, which enables users to track the comments that people the “follow” leave on blogs. I went and started to play with the service and I’m totally blown away by how amazing it is.
Some people don’t get it when [...]