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Gene Weingarten - Illiterature - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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The ad on Craigslist was from an Oakton company called Zirdland.com. Zirdland claims it has developed a software system that can electronically analyze the quality and commercial viability of a work of fiction and prompt changes that will make it better.
Japan's Papers, Doomed but Going Strong - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Article on the strength of newspapers in Japan and yet the certainty of their decline. Interesting difference between Japan's newspapers and US newspapers - Japanese newspapers don't put all their content on the Web for free.
Copies of Washington Post Sell Out Within Hours - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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In this twittering, pod casting, screen-viewing, digital age, the morning after America's historic presidential election found hundreds of people clamoring for something a bit more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper.
The Way We Webbed: A Decade of Google -- Oh, the Joy of Cyberpast - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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A light article on the last decade of Google and its influence, but also some interesting tidbits about attempts to archive the Web. What's worth archiving? How to go about it?
For Publisher Of Literature, Printed Word Is His Reward - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Profile of a tiny publishing operation in Alexandria.
Trackle Feeds You Personalized RSS - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Silicon Valley start-up Trackle.com is launching the public beta of its personalized Google Alerts to track pretty much everything in an internet user's life. Trackle's technology and interface is innovative and disarmingly comprehensive. It provides real-time personalized RSS feeds of the latest...
Without ready access to computers, students struggle - washingtonpost.com - 1 views
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The digital divide is still alive and well....highlighted in an article centered in Fairfax.
MIT wins Defense Department balloon hunt, a test of social networking savvy - washingto... - 0 views
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Interesting uses of social networking...reminded me a bit of XKCD's geohashing. (http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page)
We can't see the garden for the Apples and BlackBerrys - washingtonpost.com - 1 views
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Musings on whether we're losing something really vital by getting sucked into the digital world.
National Endowment for the Arts survey shows growth in online arts audience - washingto... - 0 views
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More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).
Joel Achenbach: Gary Smith and the endangerment of detailed, long-form stories - washin... - 0 views
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Interesting essay on what's happening to reading now that most of it is click-and-skim....
College students rent textbooks to save money - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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This seems like a pretty fabulous idea to me from the student side....I could see why publishers probably aren't terribly thrilled though. (I'd be interested to see an adaptation for renting e-books, which isn't mentioned in the article as being extant...yet, anyway). Netflix for textbooks, indeed!
E-reader boom kindles a variety of new options - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Kindle-killers? A flood of e-readers on the way, some featuring touch and even video chat
Rob Pegoraro - Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader not yet worth the wait - washingtonpost... - 0 views
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Less than flattering review of the Nook from B&N
Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing , Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.