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College Goal Sunday on Feb. 13Local students can get free advice on applying for financial aid for college and have the chance to win prizes Sunday, Feb. 13."College Goal Sunday," a joint initiative of the Michigan Department of Education, the Michigan Student Financial Aid Association and EduGuide, happens from 2 to 4 p.m. at Kellogg Community College, 450 North Ave., in the Ohm Information and Technology Center.Participants should bring completed 2010 federal tax returns and either their W-2s or 1099 forms.According to a news release from the state, prizes will be given away, including a $1,000 scholarship, three $500 scholarships, an iPod Nano and a Dell laptop.

Strangest show on the lineup? "Bar Karma," a show premiering Feb. 11 about a mystical bar that travels through time and space. The show hails itself as the first show of its kind, where viewers can develop stories and characters they want to see by voting on ideas submitted by fellow viewers. Popular ideas become contenders for plot developments on the show.

York Times has an interesting article looking at the younger generation that is just beginning to get involved in e-book reading thanks to parents purchasing the devices for them as gifts.

as only 6% in 2010, but is up to 20% so far in 2011.

Some teachers have been allowing kids to bring the devices to school for leisure reading, which is another factor that has convinced some parents to buy them.

Decided that the Apple ad was right and people wanted a “lean back” reading experience.

Primary challenge: how to design something new, and make it feel familiar. Two goals, let people know it what the Times and people had to understand it immediately after launching it.

4 rules: great ipad apps are platform savvy, start small and improve over time, demand collaboration to build and are crafted to enhance the lives of human beings.

The reader is immersed more deeply in the text than they would have with the print edition or a vanilla eBook.

at what point does an eBook become an app

She knows people who can do the editing work, and feels she could assemble a perfectly serviceable cover from licensed stock photography. And she was already doing the bulk of the publicity for the book herself.

formatting and uploading the book was remarkably easy, and with no more promotion than word of mouth on her mailing lists and social networking groups, it sold at least as well in the first few days as a paperback that St. Martin’s had published the month before.

I looked through today’s articles on The Daily and found an opinion piece about the possible death of chain bookstores (which I may very well blog tomorrow when I have more time to type), a piece about Milton Berle (because, naturally, comedians of the middle 20th century have great relevance today), something about Michael Jackson’s estate serving to enrich lawyers, a whole lot of stuff about the Superbowl, and not a whole lot else that sticks in my memory.

Perhaps the biggest indicator of the app’s half-bakedness came when I decided to share the bookstore article on Facebook. I hit the share icon in the upper right corner of the screen easily enough, and shared it through to Facebook—and what showed up on my wall was a picture of The Daily’s app launch icon along with the text “I want to share the web version of an article from The Daily, the tablet-based original news publication.” plus a bit.ly URL. That’s it. No indication of what the actual article was about.

But after launching a successful three-day free e-book campaign for Eric Lamet’s Holocaust memoir A Child al Confino (Adams Media)late last month to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, she’s not only saying the “f” word but planning a new one for Valentine’s Day, Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition (Adams Media). “It’s a different genre and timing,” she says. “We’ll see how it affects the other Wild and Wanton Edition, Wuthering Heights.”

Over two thousand Michigan students were able to complete their FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form accurately and on time, thanks to the efforts of 500 volunteers participating in Michigan College Goal Sunday. This free program was organized by EduGuide (EduGuide.org) a nonprofit agency located in Lansing.

"Our collaboration with the Michigan Student Financial Aid Association, the Department of Treasury, and others has delivered great results," said Bryan Taylor, president of EduGuide. "Together we've not only helped more people at College Goal Sunday, but our outreach campaign has increased the number of people submitting the FAFSA statewide."

EduGuide's Advice Forum, at EduGuide.org. All questions will be answered free of charge.

launching a successful three-day free e-book campaign for Eric Lamet’s Holocaust memoir A Child al Confino (Adams Media)late last month to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, she’s not only saying the “f” word but planning a new one for Valentine’s Day, Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition (Adams Media). “It’s a different genre and timing,” she says. “We’ll see how it affects the other Wild and Wanton Edition, Wuthering Heights.”

With Lamet’s support, on January 27 F+W launched its first major freemium campaign across four e-book platforms: the Kindle, the Nook, Apple iBookstore, and Google. Within 24 hours, A Child al Confino had not only moved into the #1 position on Amazon’s free e-book bestseller list, but it stayed there for several days. “Traditionally in marketing, it peaks,” says Rados. “The fact that it held the position is exciting and encouraging.”

the e-book edition was downloaded 42,558 times

“The Kindle did have some strengths,” said Ringle, “but it didn’t meet the needs of higher education in terms of being an alternative to paper.”

students found the iPad to be flexible and versatile enough to allow them to read course materials, annotate and highlight passages of text, pull up reference materials, store notes, and prepare reports.

they look for a complete solution ONLY, and do not seem to value any kind of part-solution, no matter how valuable.

I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine’s latest digital issue. After I agreed to fork over $4, it began downloading. For the next phase of the experiment, I grabbed my car keys, left my apartment and drove about 12 blocks to a local magazine store in Brooklyn, where I also purchased the latest issue of Wired magazine, this time in print.

I didn’t run any red lights, or speed, or park illegally during my shopping expedition. Yet when I returned home with the glossy paper product in hand, the digital iPad version still hadn’t finished downloading to my iPad. Anybody who reads Wired would call this an Epic Fail.