OK “everyone” has had their say on the iPad, and the fuss is dying down it’s time for us introverts having had a chance to think ;) to start discussing the iPad and the future. Let’s grant that (according to those who’ve seen and used them) iPads are great for all sorts of purposes, except [...]
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Robert Cargill has been making interesting use of YouTube. Basically it seems (I am judging by the videos, I have not asked him) he videos class sessions (with the screen as well as the lecturer in shot) then later extracts interesting short focused segments of few minutes on a topic. As I write the most [...]
My daughter (in Glasgow as an exchange student) has been posting recently on Facebook about procrastination (it’s nearly the exam season there, and revision does not beckon like she thinks it should. Shopping, cooking, buying tickets… her list of procrastinatory activities are different from mine. But today I am procrastinating too! I’m supposed to be [...]
No, not old photographs, that’s easy – just scan them in, but all the times when something seems missing, and the absence seems to us to make sense… For a book I am helping edit, on Land and Gospel, one a couple of authors want to make bricks from absent straws. That is they notice [...]
One of my hobbies is reading for Librivox. I’ve just finished what (I think) is the first/only complete audio book of Kipling’s Just So Stories to contain not only the stories, poems, and picture descriptions, but also the 13th story (see below). I have also written a blurb for the book. Can any one suggest [...]
In NZ we’ve just started doing the E100. This is 100 readings selected to give a good overview of the Bible. I’m hoping – if life and work don’t get in the way – to podcast on 5 Minute Bible on all these 100 passages. The first reading is Genesis 1 & 2, I am [...]
To follow up the previous post, and demonstrate that I am taking a short break from the day of Yhwh in Amos by reading the publishing and digital culture blogs I subscribe to, here’s another post about a post. Books and Publishing, after a faltering start when it seemed they were doomed to merely fetishise [...]
This iPad e-book version of Alice looks brilliant, not shovelware but a genuine remediating of an old classic, if the real thing is half as good as the demo looks like, that might really mean that the iPad is as much of a stimulation to innovation in publishing as people have claimed. I just love [...]
