Archive for November, 2009

Google Magazines – Top 20 Titles

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

This is a subset of my list that has all titles as of November, 2009, when Google announced that they would provide their own list. The titles below are my subjective picks, based on generality of interest and/or length of availability. American Motorcyclist, Feb 1955 – July 2005 Backpacker, Spring 1973 – ...

Keep the Ball Rolling: Twitter & Blogging Together

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I recently fell into a nice little example of how tweets "accumulate wisdom" as they get retweeted -- Starting with a simple "link to a good site" sort of tweet, then someone finds an especially good specific page down inside the good site and retweets that, then the next retweeter ...

Steve Jobs’ Legacy: To Save Publishing with the Tablet?

Friday, November 6th, 2009

John C. Abell, in his recent Wired article Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is the Missing Clue to the Apple Tablet, suggests that in the same way that he invigorated animated film with Pixar, the music industry with iTunes, and the mobile phone market with the iPhone, Jobs' next mission is to ...

Roy Tennant & the Onion on Weeding the Internet

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I love serendipity -- I happened to see these two pieces on the same day recently, and couldn't help putting them together. Is there a meaning somewhere here? .... Information on the Internet That Should Go Away, Roy Tennant This is the kind of information I wish would disappear: old, outdated, in ...