Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Speaking about a passage from the story ‘My First Goose’ by Isaac Babel
I expecially remember the passage about how Everyone has two lives–one open and visible, full of work, convention, responsibilities, jokes, and the other “running its course in secret”–and how easy it is for circumstances to line up so that everything you hold [...]

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 [...]

So recently I’ve been seeing lots of people write about “the death of the book” here on the internet , and it has been needling away at me.
What I think is that right now the book is going through a change, which reminds me of the change that the album went through recently.
The [...]

In Text Edit 004 I talk about how I think the act of reading text stays the same, regardless of what the text appears on.
Example: Reading text on paper V. Reading text on a iPhone, or a Kindle IS STILL READING TEXT.
I’m really cerious to see, or hear, what people think [...]

Been a bit, but I have a new Text Edit Podcast for anyone who wants to listen to it.
This one talks about how I use a book to help me get some sleep.
Hope that you like it.
-N

The second episode of Text Edit is now live. Text Edit #002u
In this show I talk a bunch about how the iPhone / iPod touch app Stanza is amazing, and wonderful.
You should download Stanza after you listen to the show.
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I’ve been out of the loop with podcasting for a bit now.  For way to long really, it is past time for me to try to podcast again.  For the past several days I’ve been thinking about what king of content I would like to podcast about, and I made a list of several subjects.
After [...]

A few days back I was doing my regular morning ritual of reading blogs (I find myself thinking of my grandfather reading the New York Times every morning when I do this…)
One of the blogs that I read is Chris Brogan’s and on this particular morning there was a post titled “Thinking About Trust Agents” [...]