India to make $10 Laptops
The Indian government said that it will make $10 laptops, a tenth of what MIT offers for its One Laptop Per Child model. All I can say is, Wow!
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Evolution of TV and disagreeing with David Pogue
David Pogue’s blog post on streaming content turned out to be EXACTLY what I submitted for my final paper two week ago (for Harry Lewis‘ class on Life, Liberty and […]
It was coming: US Congressman seeks camera phones that click
U.S. news reports and blogs (here, here and here) are all over the fact that policymakers are fiddling with their gadgets. The proposed bill, called the Camera Phone Predator Alert […]
Be a sheep!
Herdict‘s website is officially up and running! I wrote about Herdict last month and the website existed then, but I guess that was a beta version. Anyways, Herdict gets this […]
Interactive TV is not new
Saul Hansell, one of my favorite NYT Bits blog writers, writes today that CNN inaugurated social TV by mashing Facebook with its online streaming service. This interactive TV service is […]
Future Business Model for Newspapers
I love print. I’m sensitive to the paper- the texture, the weight, the smell. Did you know that thinner paper is more expensive to print than the 100g glossy ones? […]
Classical music publishers need to move on to digital
While the Internet has been successful (perhaps too successful) in making audio files more available on the Web, it is still not used so much to share scores. Sheet music […]
Updates from “digital” academia
* Tracy Mitrano, the January guest blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section, has been writing some good stuff. She doesn’t present us with ground-breaking discoveries, but […]
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