I didn’t want to judge Gawker’s new redesign right out of the gate; I’m all too aware that the annoyance of adjusting to a new design can be irrational and cause you to judge too harshly, especially when you’ve been visiting that site for years. But we’re now well into the era of Gawker Ick.0, [...]
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Hmmmmmm….
So, it looks like Google’s getting into the museum game. I like a lot of things about this tool: the quick, smooth assembly of collections in a lightbox-type area is especially good. It definitely feels like it’s set up for browsing instead of serious scholarship, which unfortunately means that the Street View feature comes off [...]
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So, this came out of nowhere.
Google’s released something called “Buzz”. Unlike Wave, which I heard a lot about and had a Gmail-like exclusivity to it, Buzz only hit my radar 12 hours before it suddenly popped up as a Gmail category. No effort required.
As far as I can tell, Google Buzz is what [...]
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The Brave Monkey Pirate — Children’s Book
Is this the publishing wave of the future? Maybe.
Between the launch of the iPad (…meh) and Amazon’s fight with Macmillan over ebook prices, the publishing world’s seeing a lot of action. Publishers are going to have to drastically change their model in the coming years, clearly, [...]
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It’s hard to imagine how long it took to craft and shoot this, but it’s absolutely mesmerizing.
A pretty stunning visualization of what it feels like to read a really good book.
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