Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Wired Magazine’s Pitch to New York
As he kicked off the Wired Business Conference on Monday, Wired magazine’s editor in chief, Chris Anderson, started talking about Jell-O.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Kindle Hikes Book Prices and Adds to My Ambivalence
Just when I was coming to terms with my ambivalence toward my Kindle e-book reader, Amazon and the publishers have gotten greedy.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the device since I bought my first one about 9 months ago.
As a frequent traveler and voracious reader, I’ve found the Kindle to be nearly ideal. I never have fewer than a dozen books in its memory, and they’re always things I want to read.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Frightful Kindle
Until quite recently, I’d seen a Kindle only once. It was at a friend’s house, only for a moment, and my general impression was that it was clunky and only borderline readable.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Borders Abandons Search for Buyer; Stock Tumbles
Borders Group took itself off of the market yesterday afternoon, presumably because the company could find no buyers. Accordingly, the stock has taken a nosedive. That, combined with dismal recent numbers from Barnes & Noble, has intensified worries about the book-selling business as a whole–and about future numbers from Amazon.com in particular.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Sometimes Crowds Aren’t That Wise
Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We’ve written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg, but SitePoint’s anecdote demonstrates that sometimes the wisdom of crowds approach is, well, kind of dumb.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
My Next Book: The Story of Blogs
I left Salon last summer with the idea of working on a new book. I’m happy to report that the book now has a deal and a publisher–Crown, with whom I had such a happy experience on “Dreaming in Code”–and I’ll be spending the next year or so researching and writing it.
I am, I think the word is, stoked.
The topic will seem obvious to any of you who’ve been reading my stuff over the years: It’s going to be a book about bloggers and blogging. The working title is SAY EVERYTHING, and we’re describing it as the story of how blogging began, what it’s becoming, and what it means for our culture.
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