Budgets and the T word
"...purchases of books and all other materials have come to a complete halt. Readers will soon notice that there are no new materials coming in, reference resources are not...
Internet cafes for the poor–and an idea for libraries
"Internet cafes in South Africa are providing many with their first taste of the web and e-mail. " - BBC, June 24.The TeleRead take: Thanks to wireless and reduced costs,...
“Lawyers in search of more business” department
Will more books and movies really be preserved if copyright terms keep getting extended? That's what an American Bar Association document says in proposing formal support of the notorious Copyright...
Content and wireless access
Two other finds via Jonathan Schull's blog:--Making The Web Relevant for Underserved Americans: What They Look For, a .pdf file from the Children's Partnership. Needed, among other things? More local...
Gouge-proofing our libraries
"A rent hike has prompted officials to consider moving a library branch out of the Larose Civic Center. Acting Library Director Paul Chiquet said the rent for the library has...
The high-tech “know” of “who you know”–and the TeleRead take
Speaking of Jon Schull's blog--see the previous TeleBlog post--he has a link to an interesting paper called Inside the Digital Divide: Connecting Youth to Opportunities in the New Economy.The paper...
“I don’t understand the vituperativeness of the NPR controversy”
"NPR will learn, now what about the critics? I don't really understand the vituperativeness of the NPR controversy. Public Broadcasting (NPR, PBS) in America is a national treasure--quality, taste, and...
“Getting Touchy-Feely With Tablet PCs”
"Yahoo News currently running a story, Tablet PCs gaining momentum, describing a renewed enthusiam among computer manufacturers for Tablet PCs, in the face of skeptics who are, apparently, abounding....
The glories of e-paper as an LCD replacement
"Imagine your laptop PC and its keyboard changed into a sheaf of flexible e-paper that wirelessly receives full editions of periodicals (in Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Reader formats with screenmapped...
Memo to Dan Gillmor and NPR
Followup: See our June 29 update on NPRwatch.org.DAN GILLMOR: In your lively blog for the San Jose Mercury News, you wrote: "I have appeared on NPR quite a few...
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
