Category Archives: Internet

Open v Closed

Interesting post from Tim O’Reilly comparing the early days of kindle to the pre-Mosaic era of the world wide web. Essentially arguing for the adoption of open e-book standards over Amazon’s closed kindle approach, he suggests that an open approach is far more likely to drive innovation (in devices, business models etc) and uptake than [...] Continue reading

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Check your calendar

From today’s Guardian:
Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology,the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.
The move, described as “epochal” by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit [...] Continue reading

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Panorama de la prensa en los Estados Unidos

Os presentamos tres informaciones que, poco o mucho, reflejan la situación de la prensa en los Estados Unidos de América. 
En los Estados Unidos, el difícil momento de la prensa tradicional -que en mayor o menor grado es parte de una depresión mundial- logra un carácter de crisis, tal com se pued eobservar en esta gráfica realizada por The New [...] Continue reading

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Update on the death of newspapers

Lot’s has been written recently about the impending death of newspapers – something I keep an eye on because there are some parallels with books. Anyhow, Jay Rosen at Pressthink summarises what’s been happening, from Clay Shirky’s mid-March Thinking the Unthinkable onwards. A nice summary of thoughtful links.
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El Jueves estrena una serie de vídeos de sátira política por Internet

El Jueves estrenó (19/3/2009) un serie de vídeos de sátira política, titulada Moncloa Palace, que se emite por Internet a través de su página web. Se trata de de una producción de dibujos animados creada por el equipo audiovisual de la publicación, y que tiene como protagonistas a los políticos del Palacio de la [...] Continue reading

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SXSW Report

Lot’s of chatter on the net about a disappointing publishing panel at this year’s South by South West event. Apparently, the “New Think for Old Publishers” panel was anything but. Made up of representatives from traditional book publishing companies, with the addition of Clay Shirky, the session was not well received by an audience hungry for new [...] Continue reading

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Kindle in Australia?

So I downloaded the kindle app for iphone (using my US account, created from a Gift card long before the Oz store existed – for more current methods, see here) and I managed to download a sample book which was pretty seamless. The app works well enough, and is pretty snappy, but feature-wise it’s not [...] Continue reading

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Amazon lanza una aplicación que permite leer libros en formato Kindle a través del iPhone

Amazon ha lanzado (5/3/2009) una aplicación denominada “Kindle for iPhone” que permite leer libros electrónicos en formato Kindle e el teléfono móvil iPhone y en el reproductor mp3 iPodTouch. La aplicación, que se descarga gratuitamente desde Apple Store, la tienda de aplcaciones de Apple, sólo está disponible en Estados Unidos. Para leer libros electrónicos en [...] Continue reading

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I think it just happened…

Amazon has just released a kindle app for the iphone. From All things Digital:
The free Kindle for iPhone App is just what it sounds like: It lets you read e-books that you’ve bought from Amazon (AMZN). It won’t let you actually buy the titles from the online bookseller, though. To do that, you will need [...] Continue reading

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International Internet Law

How should we govern the internet? Continue reading

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