Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
In his recent New Yorker article, The Cost Conundrum, Atul Gawande compares McAllen Texas, which is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the US, with Rochester, Minnesota, home of the Mayo Clinic, which has a relatively low expenditure, and a high-quality health system. Below are long excerpts from ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Last week New York Times reporter David Carr paid a visit to the GooglePlex, to learn more about Google Book Search. His article on this got little attention, maybe because the title and lead paragraphs didn't communicate that the subject was, in fact, Google Book Search and the Settlement. So ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Why is the Library of Congress not more involved in discussions of Google Book Search and the impending Settlement? Google searching finds virtually no evidence that LC has had any voice at all in the recent flurry of talk on this. For example, these Google web searches pull up only ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
A recent Wired article (Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World) has a good chart comparing four leading E-reader displays (E-Ink, Kent Displays, Pixel Qi, and Qualcomm). The chart appears far down in the article, though, and I suspect it was missed by many readers, so to make it ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Clive Thompson, in his recent comments on how crowdsourcing has the potential to transform eBooks, refers to a a rudimentary form of crowdsourcing that's already being studied in print textbooks. The work he's referring to is by Cathy Marshall, who finds that used-book-buyers place value in the annotations (highlighting and ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
A few excerpts from Clive Thompson's interesting thoughts on digitization last week:
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. ... Literary pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe? ... To which I reply: ...
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