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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
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My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: publishing
Paul Graham and ‘post-medium’ publishing
Content is king. Media are just delivery systems. Until paper publishers realize where the value really lies, they will continue to march toward obsolescence.
Posted in New Media Also tagged business, journalism, Justin McLaughlin, newspaper business models, Paul Graham, post-journalism, post-medium Comments closed
Digital piracy catches up to the print publishing world
The New York Times points out that, as e-books and e-book readers become more popular, the print publishing industry is seeing an increase in digital piracy. More illegal copies of bestsellers are turning up on file-sharing sites like Scribd and Wattpad. Authors and publishers are, needless to say, not happy with the situation, but there [...]
Posted in Digitalia, Ethics, Print Culture Also tagged e-books, Ethics, New York Times, piracy, Scribd, Stephen King Comments closed
Revolution and the unthinkable scenario
We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.” The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and [...]
Posted in Higher Education, New Media, Print Culture, Site News Also tagged Clay Shirky, current crisis, experients, Gutenberg, journalism, New Media, newspapers, printing, revolution Comments closed
An e-reader scenario
Paper, as a medium for distributing written content and advertising, is on its way out, and Fortune senior writer Michael V. Copeland introduces the people and the companies working to craft a replacement: e-readers powered by e-ink technologies. Copeland’s article is educational, if you haven’t been following all this e-reader hype already, but what really [...]
Posted in Digitalia, New Media, Print Culture Also tagged dissemination, e-readers, Fortune, Hearst, Michael Copeland Comments closed
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