Página de la versión impresa del diccionario visual infantil Curious George’s Dictionary, que la editorial Houghton Mifflin ha adaptado para ser leído en el dispositivo iPhone. La editorial de libros educativos Houghton Mifflin y la empresa ScrollMotion -creadora del programa lector Iceberg Reader y la tecnología ScrollMotion para smartphones- han anunciado (7/4/2009) el lanzamiento de la versión electrónica para iPhone del clásico infantil Curious [...]

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They’ve been around for as long as I remember.  Here’s the skinny:

STARLOG.com has relaunched in beta! As a part of our massive digital initiative, STARLOG.com has returned to the web to bring you the best original content pertaining to the worlds of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Comic Entertainment.

With daily news, reviews, features, and more, STARLOG.com is your home for sci-fi on the web.

I n addition, our new Digital store (launching next month), available on our network of online sites including STARLOG and FANGORIA, will soon feature beautifully restored digital editions of the entire run of STARLOG magazine.

We feel that these new technological ventures are very much in step with the futuristic concept of STARLOG, and will carry the brand forward into the new ideology of the 21st century and beyond.

It is also at this time that we announce the temporary cessation of the current run of STARLOG as a print magazine. After 33 years, and considering the present state of the economy, we feel its time for a major revamp and will be temporarily discontinuing publication while the model and redesign of the magazine are contemplated and executed.

The last print issue available for the time being is #374, while issue #375 will be available exclusively as a digital edition on the network in the very near future.

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M21 continue à innover autour de l'édition. Nous avons lancé la publication d'un chapitre par semaine, jusqu'au festival de Cannes en Mai, du roman américain  "A Festival Wife" de Rex Weiner, ancien reporter à Variety sur notre communauté Fest21 dédiée aux festivals et aux réalisateurs.

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A fair number of sites are reporting that Amazon is saying a “glitch” caused:

the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others.

"There was a glitch in our systems and it’s being fixed," Amazon’s director of corporate communications, Patty Smith, said in an e-mail Sunday.

The above as reported in the Huffington Post, among others.

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M21 a été sélectionné pour présenter son projet de développement et sa recherche de financement aux investisseurs présents à Capital IT. Merci à l'équipe de Martech que nous connaissons depuis bien longtemps (depuis 2000)!

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Bookworm is now available in German!

Bookworm will switch to your preferred language automatically if it is available, or you can manually set your language by updating your user profile.

Thank you to Jens Quade for his initial work in internationalizing Bookworm and especially to Michael Wiedmann for heroically translating the remainder of the site.

Danish, Spanish and Finnish are all coming soon.

For more information on translating Bookworm, see the post on O’Reilly labs or join the Bookworm translators’ list.

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Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com. In the article below he looks at presidents and church. Read his previous OUPblogs here.

Americans do impose a religious litmus test on our presidents, and there is a tradition that proves it. President Obama and his family attended Easter service at St John’s Episcopal Church. Just across from the White House, it is known as the “Church of the Presidents,” the unofficial White House Chapel. Almost every president since James Madison has found occasion to worship in this church and in particular at pew 54, the presidential pew.

The selective presidential need to prove a religious point proves my point. Consider the case of President Eisenhower, who was raised a Jehovah’s Witness and whose home served as the local meeting hall for Witnesses for 19 years. Twelve days after his first inauguration, Eisenhower was baptized, confirmed, and became a communicant in the Presbyterian Church. No president before or after him has ever had to perform such rites while in office. The religious litmus test was so powerful in this case that it was voluntarily taken by a president who had already been endorsed by the people and sworn to protect and defend the Constitution.

Contrast Eisenhower to President Reagan or Bush, neither of whom belonged to a congregation or attended church regularly (or even sporadically) while in Washington, justifying their decision on the basis that the security requirements would be too onerous and disruptive to the congregations they joined. Faith is a personal thing only if the public already believes that a president possesses it. If not, no security arrangement is too onerous to trump the need to publicize it. This is true of President Clinton when he attended Foundry United Methodist Church while in Washington (one of the candidates for the Obamas’ new home church by the way), and it is also true of presidential candidate John Kerry when he made much public display of his Sunday church attendances.

The speculation about which church the Obamas will ultimately settle on as a home church in DC has been fueled, in part, by his past association with the controversial Jeremiah Wright and his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ. The speculation about where the Obamas will end up has taken on more than normal political significance because there is a greater need for this president, unless others who didn’t even have to attend church, to demonstrate that his religious views are squarely in the mainstream.

So on this Easter weekend, to those who bemoan the secularization of America, take heart, because presidents who appear godless know that they will be judged on earth before they are judged in heaven; to those who believe the separation of church and state is not yet complete, take stock, because where and whether or not President Obama ends up worshiping every Sunday has become a topic of paramount political importance to the administration. So much so that White House aides reportedly considered over a dozen churches before deciding on St John’s as the safest place for a president to go to observe Easter Sunday.

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For those of you in New York City there’s still time to sign up for the Conference.  You can find the details here, and our previous article here.  On Saturday afternoon, the 25th, I will be part of the panel “What’s Next”.

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This is worth reading.  I’ve excerpted the beginning and the end, but the middle is where the meat resides.

All generally accepted truths notwithstanding, more than 96 percent of newspaper reading is still done in the print editions, and the online share of the newspaper audience attention is only a bit more than 3 percent. That’s my conclusion after I got out my spreadsheets and calculator out again to check the math behind the assumption that the audience for news has shifted from print to the Web in a big way.

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The fact remains, of course, that not only is online revenue alone insufficient to sustain news operations, but the print operations of our larger newspapers, having lost most monopoly pricing power, are not sustainable either, recession or no recession.  Finding a solution for these industry problems demands careful monitoring of where the audience is actually spending its time and attention.  While the audience’s online attention seems to be a surprisingly low 3 percent, online is clearly where the audience is migrating to.  In my mind, as I’ve written pretty consistently since last September, the solution is an online-print hybrid in which print is consolidated to one, two or three editions per week, not seven.

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From a press release by the National Academies.  According the the release more than 9,000 reports  are now available.  Not only is this interesting for the reports, themselves, but the subjects of the reports give us a fascinating history what the country was concerned with in past times.

The National Academies today announced the completion of the first phase of a partnership with Google to digitize the library’s collection of reports from 1863 to 1997, making them available – free, searchable, and in full text – through Google Book Search. The Academies plan to have their entire collection of nearly 11,000 reports digitized by 2011.

"Much has changed since the National Academy of Sciences began advising the government in the late 1800s," said Victoria Harriston, manager of library and information services at the National Academies’ George E. Brown Jr. Library. "Our early reports are essential to understanding the scientific advances made in this country as well as the science and technology issues the government struggled with in the 19th and 20th centuries."

Notable reports from the library’s archives that are now available include:

· PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Vol. 1 (1863–1894). This was the first NAS publication series, and it includes information about the Academy’s early work for the government on topics such as how to prevent compass deviation which sent iron warships off course, whether the metric system of weights and measures should be adopted, and how the new U.S. Geological Service should be organized.

· INVESTIGATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE SORGHUM SUGAR INDUSTRY (1882). This report was the Academy’s first self-initiated study, produced by the first committee to include non-Academy members.

· PROPOSED U.S. PROGRAM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR, 1957-1958. American participation in the International Geophysical Year – a historic, worldwide scientific effort that investigated the workings of the Earth and saw the launch of the first satellites – was guided and coordinated by a committee of the Academy.

· THE POLAR REGIONS AND CLIMATIC CHANGE (1984) Changes in Earth’s polar regions are widely covered in the news today, but the Academies have been studying this phenomenon for more than 20 years.

Prior to this project, the Academies digitized more than 4,000 books and made them available online through the National Academies Press; most of those can also be found in Google Book Search. However, researchers who needed to gain access to hard copies of older reports, part of a legacy collection in the library, could not always find what they wanted. Many of these reports exist as single copies, and the library feared potential damage or loss of this important collection. These older reports have been digitized and are now accessible through Google. In addition, the "digitizing of these materials will add another dimension to the preservation of our reports," said Harriston. The Academies hope that wider availability of its reports will be of use to scientists in developing countries, who often rely on the Internet to gather information.

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