Posted on December 13, 2008 by bethesdafrog
as a follow up to my earlier post, see here, i wanted to add that my favorite iphone application for reading books is stanza. stanza has just announced an additional 40,000 titles to its library of available books to download/read. someone is obviously paying attention as stanza claims around 500,000 users. i [...]
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Posted on December 8, 2008 by bethesdafrog
i stopped subscribing to newspaper and magazines three years ago. I now consume information in a digital format on my laptop or iphone via subscriptions to rss feeds off of google reader. i have effectively deconstructed the traditional unique source of news, the newspaper, and rebuilt it digitally by picking and choosing from [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2008 by bethesdafrog
music is a social archetype. music was created for others to enjoy, as a sharing experiment, within a sharing environment. musicians used to be and still are social animals. music lovers, listeners used to be social animals too. maybe not anymore?
think about how music used to be listened until [...]
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