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Four Pillars: Fulfilment: Amazon Online Reader

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

Chris Locke pinged me about this. It seemed only right that I tried it out on Cluetrain….
Very interesting. I’ve played with it for a while, but have yet to try the whole shebang on an Amazon Upgrade Program book. Will do so pretty soon, but probably not tonight. Tried it vicariously anyway.
The software stayed up [...]

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Four Pillars: Manipulating information: Look Ma…. Hands

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

One of the questions I used to pose to the graduate intake here was this:
How do you think people will interact with information in five years time? Will it be analogous to (a) bloomberg.tv (b) Excel (c) Green Screen (d) Google (e) XBox? [I avoided giving them (f) Blue Screen of Death]

All I was trying [...]

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Itemised versus All You Like: A Snowball Diaspora-At-Source

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

I was preparing for what will probably become my next post, triggered by something I read in the New Scientist. I couldn’t link to the full text of the article, it was hidden behind a Premium Wall. And it made me go off at a tangent, mid-post.
Most journals nowadays provide their print subscribers with free [...]

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