by Tom | Sep 20, 2004 | Reading
Death of the book ? says no, the book isn’t dead, but surely this is the beginning of the emergence of eBooks as a new medium. Not one that replaces paper books, but one that improves, fills in and fleshes out the printed word?
by Tom | Sep 20, 2004 | Reading
Ben makes the valid point in I’m not paying for that… that were the BBC’s license fee to be removed, the net result would be additional cost to consumers thanks to the advertising required to pay for the programmes. And you can bet we’d be...
by Tom | Sep 19, 2004 | Reading
The File Sharing Report asks whether file sharing (p2p) is a silent complaint about the business model of the software, movie and music industries. There’s some sense in that thought. It fits pretty well with my use of the technology (to save me ripping whole...
by Tom | Sep 19, 2004 | Reading
Salvo! has an amazing number of things for sale, including (currently) the whole of the Baltic Exchange. Just astonishing what you can get on the net.
by Tom | Aug 31, 2004 | Reading
Headshift looks approvingly at the growing world of social taxonomy generation. It’s definitely an interesting idea to help with the taxonomy vs chaos approach to creating information structures. However, without a good general search engine, surely the benefit...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2004 | Reading
Letter in the Independent from R S Clymo of East Sussex, in full:Sir:now that the coxless fours has ended satisfactorily, may we hope thatyou will arrange for a photograph of
