It struck me just now, reading a book on my iPhone called We the Media, by Dan Gilmore, which is about blogging among other things, that I’m actively practicing what he discusses in his book. While driving down Interstate Highway 40E toward Oklahoma City, I’m reading an ebook on my phone, watching the GPS “breadcrumb [...]

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Today I spoke with Clark Sneed, the national sales manager from Dirxion, LLC, a major eBook publisher. I’d contacted them after receiving a link to an online tourism guide they publish, the 2009 Virginia Guide and being very impressed with its quality and beauty. This example really shows some of the multimedia possibilities of eBooks. [...]

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My friend, Chris Andrews, publisher of a new website called Gutenberg.com, has predicted that 2009 will be, finally, the Year of the eBook. Of course, people have been saying that for years, but maybe this year it’s actually going to come around. Back in 2002 I worked on an outline for what I thought of [...]

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By now you’ve probably heard about Amazon’s new Kindle for iPhone app. Yes, of course I downloaded it last night, almost as soon as it was released, but I haven’t bought any ebooks for it yet. I still haven’t read the ebooks I bought last week using a different app, so it may be awhile [...]

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We have moved to a different RV park, which has a different WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider), one that offers unlimited bandwidth. That’s the way life ought to be! But there’s a catch. One of the things that frustrated me most about the 360MB/48 hours limitations imposed by NomadISP at Beaudry RV was that I [...]

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One of the reasons I’ve been so upset over not having good internet access is that there are just so many things I want to do that require it. This won’t be news to any of my readers, of course, but it becomes even more apparent when that access is missing or impaired. For instance, [...]

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I said I’d report on the new mobile router, modem & antenna we bought this week, so here you are. It’s all good! At least so far. Right now we have the router (with the USB modem sticking out the side of it) sitting on the dashboard of our RV: Connected to the modem is [...]

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There’s a lot of evidence that eBook technology and concept are finally starting to catch on. Not only is Amazon’s Kindle becoming a household word (if not a household appliance), but my good friend Chris Andrews has just published an excellent article on his blog about why 2009 is going to be “the year of [...]

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