Sunday, November 11, 2007

Coda-ing

I am now using Coda.

Used up the tryout period and have now committed some money for real!

What a tremendous tool this is but wait.... I still have some niggles. I love it but how can I deal with all the other lovely tools that now clutter my applications folder. What shall I do with BBedit? And what of TextMate? My students need to use Dreamweaver (unfortunately), so I still need to know all about that too. 

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The $100 Laptop

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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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Realistic Electronic Books

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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Monday, July 30, 2007

Announcing the Open Library

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

Sourced at Aaron Swartz

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Talk to the Sichuan Media and Journalism Programme

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