Posts Tagged ‘Neil Gorman’

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 [...]

I’m a big fan of The Book Oven Blog. Huge fan.
Every now and then I’m lucky enough to have something that I write show up on that blog. In fact, I think that the best writing that I have done on the web is over on The Book Oven Blog.
If [...]

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.
-N

~Prologue~
Ok… Today when I was on Twitter I saw this great Re-Tweet by Steve Garfield 

stevegarfield Retweeting @acclimedia: How to Blog by @hotdogsladies. A must view. http://tinyurl.com/5jbyqj

I clicked on the link in Steve’s Re-Tweet and was blown away by the slides that Merlin Mann (AKA @hotdogsladies) had posted.  After viewing them I decided to write this post.
~Two Answers To [...]

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 [...]

Back when I was in 1992 when I was in the 7′th grade I started to use something called a modem with my 286 computer to connect with other computers, and other people.  Later when I entered high school, when my peers were excited about cars, and CDs, I was excited about comic books and computers, and [...]