Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I heard more about this on David Pogue's Podcast.
David Pogue, who now says that he will stop his podcast for a while elaborated on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
Earlier on Pogue reviewed the laptop and you can see this on YouTube. Take look ...
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Posted on 17 Oct 2007 around 12pm •
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Veronica Liesaputra presenting her PhD work on user-interfaces for eBooks.
This is a Google TechTalk from Google's YouTube channel.
An electronic book is defined as a digital book that not only captures the affordances of a physical book, but also transcends the limitations of its paper counterpart. There is much debate as to whether the use of the book metaphor is appropriate for an electronic document. - Veronica Liesaputra
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Posted on 31 Jul 2007 around 4pm •
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Aaron Swartz has announced a demo of the Open Library Project. I really admire this idea and wish him and the team the very best of luck with it. The technology looks really good and the team includes designer Rebecca Malamud who's work I have admired before at MappaMundi.net
Visit the Open Library site
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
I gave a talk on Digital Publishing today for Oxford University
The group of journalists were from Sichuan provence in China and were undertaking a course in the department of continuing Education at Oxford.
Here is the lecture
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
A small library in Leonardo Da Vinci’s hometown uploads a large portion of the Renaissance man’s notes into a searchable digital archive, free for all the world to pick through.
Sourced at Wired News