Tag: Screens

43 Results

| January 9, 2009

growling

One of my favorite and most-used Mac applications is called Growl: it’s a utility that works with many different...

| January 8, 2009

another kind of scanning

There’s a wonderful article in the new Atlantic by Mark Bowden called “The Hardest Job in Football.” That hardest...

| January 7, 2009

generativity

Jonathan Zittrain has a new book called The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It. Zittrain’s belief is that...

| December 22, 2008

form and content

Jeremy C writes below, “Doesn’t having a uniform page layout for all the books on the device focus your attention,...

| December 21, 2008

revenue

Writing below about the now-defunct web services Stikkit and I Want Sandy, I remarked that, as far as I could tell,...

| December 20, 2008

on typography

To my mind, the single biggest flaw of the Kindle may be summed up in a single word: typography. The Kindle has one...

| December 18, 2008

three theses for disputation

1) The future of reference works will be online, because research requires the aggregation and association of divergent...

| December 16, 2008

screens and screens

Christine Rosen says, with trepidation, that “we are becoming people of the screen.” Kevin Kelly says, with eager...