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I think it's an interesting map which reminds me of the virsual that we talked about last seminar. How things can be interpreted differently by others.

While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month

My question will be: what is the difference between the multimedia ebook and the mini laptop?

It is quite interesting that we can free access the state salaries databases. however, is that imformation really accuracy and reliable?

With the publishing industry in freefall, what is going to happen to science fiction books? I asked Tor Books senior editor and manager of SF and fantasy Patrick Nielsen Hayden. He thinks the changes coming will be slow but weird.

An article exploring the debate of whether investing in digital media will reap rewards?

the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

China should begin to think of itself as a global media power

E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.

Apparently it's not only the IRS using social media to find its targets, but burglars as well.

Here is the Presentation. Thurs 5-7pm The Marketing guy at Slide Share has even fav it

This is the reading I will Present this Thursday 5-7 Even though the reading is in the reader. The links are available from this page