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An e-journal I would ditch my Moleskine for
Microsoft, you’ve got my attention.
From Engadget:
We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September … We’re told Courier will function as a “digital journal,” and it’s designed to be seriously portable: it’s under an inch thick, weighs a little over a [...]
Posted in Inion Tagged digital journal, e-readers, engadget.com, microsoft courier, opinion, video 4 Comments
Repeating words
Repeating words in prose is against the law. Do not repeat words when composing prose, it is wrong. Repeating the same word in close proximity disrupts the flow of your writing. Try to avoid repeating words.
Repeating words:
He looked at her. She looked at him. They looked at each other. She looked away. He looked down. [...]
Miscellaneous Voices
In recent weeks, I have been forced to think about my motivations as a writer. I’d like to say it is because of something as interesting as an existential crisis or that I’m suffering from some form of crippling writer’s block, but it isn’t. It is, in fact, the opposite – I have the opportunity [...]
Posted in Inion Tagged blogs, karen andrews, lead igloo, miscellaneous voices, opinion, publishing, writing 9 Comments
Analytics conferences, digital books and conspiracies
I promised myself I would not return to the subject of e-books and e-readers, opting instead to watch the revolution from the balcony. However, I am rejoining the crowd for a few quick conspiratorial whispers.
Carrying around a clunky, constantly skipping ’skip-proof’ Sony DiscMan and a stack of CDs was a pain. I wanted something that [...]
Posted in Inion Tagged conspiracy!, e-books, e-readers, ipad, opinion, publishing, site analytics 2 Comments
A note on Ezra Pound & Japan
For reasons that will become clearer (to myself) at a later date, I am reading Ezra Pound & Japan, a collection edited by Sanehide Kodama.
Ezra Pound & Japan collects over fifty years of correspondence between Pound and various Japanese poets and editors. The latter parts of the book also contains Ezra’s actual contributions to Japanese [...]
Walls and apricots
Once upon a time, there was a wall. The building of it was one of the biggest undertakings in human history. The story of this wall defined a nation, running through it both metaphorically and literally.
Once upon a time, there were people who, from a distance, watched a great wall rise, fall, and rise again. [...]
A further thought regarding e-readers, pertaining particularly to newspapers
Is it cynical of me to think that mainstream media outlets are pushing the e-reader’s cause so that they can continue to have control of ‘the news’?
In Rupert Murdoch’s speech about blocking News Corp’s online content from those who don’t subscribe, the thing that struck me was his comment that papers would survive by giving [...]
As easy on the eyes as paper – On books and e-readers
E-readers are the way of the reading future, seemingly whether we like it or not. But are digital books an attempt to fix a reading experience that isn’t broken?
I once worked in an art museum where my primary role was to stop people from touching the works. Of course, it didn’t say it like that [...]
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