After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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I have been resisting the Kindle ever since it was introduced. Of course, I had lots of good reasons. Books published on Kindle have DRM, and in years to come when the hardware is obsolete, I may not be able to use the books I’ve bought on this platform. The Kindle itself is not the [...]

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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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This weekend we’re attending something grandly called The Rally, a gathering of several thousand RVers and wanna-be RVers. Superficially, living and traveling in a recreational vehicle (RV) sounds like something from a by-gone, more wasteful age — a large RV might get only five or six miles per gallon of gas — but many “full [...]

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