I mentioned the other day that I have gotten my new BlackBerry Curve set up with Mobipocket to allow me to read books (and even some crude bookmarking and highlighting). See “Reading books on the go” for my rundown of apps and sites for downloading free books. One of the […]
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Tony Pittman of Real Tech is in an interesting conversation regarding whether or not information should be free and, specifically what is the model being developed by universities that are places courses online. The commentator wrote: Based on what I heard about Harvard and MIT offering free classes, I extended […]
Ed Cook of Ralph the Sacred River has his Fifth Annual Ralphies. I have not done this every year, but this year I can indeed offer my top picks for the categories required for the Ralphy. BEST MOVIE: Like Ed and unlike the rest of humanity I have not seen […]
Our first night here I was looking for reading material on my BlackBerry and found I had downloaded the above titled novel (or long short story? the length is hard to tell on the BB) by Cory Doctorow. I have mentioned before both Feedbooks, a source of free electronic books, […]
Yesterday I picked a new Blackberry. My old 8810 had bit the dust one too many times and the mic no longer worked. That was fine for those who wanted to give me a telling to without hearing me respond, but a challenge for actually accomplishing two-way communication. So I […]
More on MLK! I wasn’t even looking for it this time, just browsing my newsfeed. Dr. King’s delivery is much more sedate in this sermon than at other times, but just a few minutes into it I am finding it well worth the listen. Lost 1965 MLK sermon from Hollywood […]