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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Author’s Choice, una nueva herramienta de Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.co.uk acaba de lanzar (28/10/2008) la campaña promocional Author’s Choice, que consiste en una página donde los autores indican cuáles son sus 10 libros preferidos, y en el caso de autores expertos en algún tema en concreto, los 10 títulos que consideren esenciales sobre el tema en cuestión.
Author’s Choice, una nova eina promocional d’Amazon.co.uk
Iolanda Bethencourt
Posted in General, Reino Unido, Uncategorized, amazon
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Ezra Pound: Prophet?
A. David Moody looks at what Pound said in the 1930s versus what pundits are saying today.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Ezra Pound: Prophet?”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/ezra-pound/” }); Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, American History, Finance, History, Poetry, Uncategorized, cantos, credit, david, ezra pound, financial crisis, great depression, moody
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An LCD Challenger to ePaper?
Slashgear reports a different approach to ePaper, this one produced by Sharp. It’s an eight-color liquid crystal display that can freezes static images after the juice is switched off. Sharp foresees a variety of markets for it such as grocery displays: by hooking the screen up to a Wi-Fi, store managers can readily adjust prices displayed to customers. It could also be competitive with emerging e-book applications once the cost comes down and some other issues, such as temperature distortion and power consumption, are resolved. The technology doesn’t sound competitive yet with eInk but given Sharp minds, that could change fast. Read about it.
Posted in Uncategorized, e-books, e-ink, epaper
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A Screen So Thin It Flaps
And speaking of screen technology, check out Samsung’s flat panel display; at 0.05 mm, it’s so thin it actually flaps!
As reported by Gearlog, “The OLED display was made by using polysilicon TFTs and low-molecular organic EL materials. The panel is then sealed using a technology that employs sputtering method and doesn’t use glass substrate. Samsung’s flapping OLED display has a 480 × 272 pixels resolution, 200cd/m2 luminance and 100,000:1 contrast ratio. Just imagine watching movies on paper-thin displays in the future!”
Translation: A screen so thin it flaps!
Posted in Screen Technology, Uncategorized, e-books
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E-readers popular among most of the publishing people using them, says Publishing Trends
Some months ago Random House, S&S and other major houses said they were buying dedicated e-readers for certain editors, sales reps and others.
Have the new gizmos worked out? Which brand is most popular? And how are publishing people using them?
Sony Reader most popular among publishers
"In general," reports Publishing Trends in the November issue, "e-reader [...] Continue reading
Presentations from the Oxford Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop
Presentations from the Institutional and National Services for Research Data Management Workshop at the Oxford Said Business School are now available.
Here's a selection:
The Archaeology Data Service, A Subject Specific Digital Repository
A Grand Challenge for the Information Age
Legal Issues Relevant to Digital Repositories
Tools for Managing Research Data: the Data Audit Framework (DAF) and DRAMBORA
The UK Research [...] Continue reading
Apple, livre et encres électroniques
Apple ne peut que jouer un rôle crucial dans le développement du livre électronique de nouvelle génération. Les premiers Macintosh, avec un petit écran en teinte de gris ne nécessitant aucune accommodation des yeux par rapport au papier, afficha… Continue reading
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JISC Digital Preservation Policies Study
JISC has released a two-part study of digital preservation policies: Digital Preservation Policies Study and Digital Preservation Policies Study, Part 2: Appendices—Mappings of Core University Strategies and Analysis of Their Links to Digital Preservation.
Here's an excerpt:
This JISC funded study aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that [...] Continue reading
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‘Moxyland’ said to be ‘the first e-book’ with a music soundtrack embedded—but is it?
How many e-books exist already with embedded music soundtracks? I’ll guess that some are out there despite a claim by Electric Book Works that Moxyland is the first e-book with one. But I could be wrong.
"The soundtrack was compiled by African Dope Records to suit the mood and feel of the book’s storyline," says [...] Continue reading
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
What Cassie has been reading this week (and okay, a few from last week too).SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Friday Procrastination: Link Love”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/halloween-link-love/” }); Continue reading
Posted in 17616, A-Featured, Blogs, Science, Uncategorized, find, halloween, link love, matter, national novel writing month, physicists, scienceblog, state, transistor
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