I’m getting very addicted in using readability to read almost everything online, for you to have an idea:
“Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter aroung what you’re reading.”
It’s really straightfoward. It’s a pitty that I don’t remember where I read about it for the first [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘technology’
15 March 2009
Eye drops for your eyes
27 February 2009
Who’s is afraid of the thumb-culture?
Reading this article about cell phone novels in Japan I remembered what I read somewhere the other day about how you can tell the age of a person by the way she or he presses the doorbell. If you press it with your index finger (as I do) you are probably over 30, if [...]
26 January 2009
When translation is a further problem…
I’ve been talking now and then about the question of diversity of translations in the world today. Sometimes we need to take an step back and give some tought to our own langague. I’m sure the problem faced by the Spanish-speaking authors in Latin America discussed on the Hermano Cerdo (in Spanish, sorry) is not [...]
15 May 2008
Laroussepedia
It’s seems that the French publishing Larousse house will try to compete with Wikipedia. They made their encyclopedic content access for free and also open the possibility for the user to contribute. But unlike the Wikipedia, only identified users are allowed to contribute. Great news for the French speakers and I hope the company decides [...]
2 April 2008
Open Letter on Print on Demand
Official statement by Amazon.com at 31th March.
According to booktwo.org: “Yes, they’re serious, and yes, they’re bad people.”
22 March 2008
The future of the book in 1984
Nicholas Negroponte, one of the creators of MIT Media Lab, talks about the future of the book in 1984 (around the 8th minute). Then the future was the Internet, but Internet is already there for 10 years and the book keep going. How the next future of the book will look [...]
7 January 2008
The Futures of the Book According to Penguin
“In this future everyone is a publisher, but where are the editors?”
Thanks, Janneke!
