Archive for March, 2009
#followfriday 27th March – what an AWESOME bunch!
It’s Friday again, and on Twitter that means its’s #followfriday!
It’s an ongoing tradition to recommend new people to follow, generally it’s done in Twitter itself, but you only get 140 characters which isn’t much – today I’ll be updating this post with all the poeple that so kindly recommended me.
Future of print?
Just some though as I walked through a bookshop, open to comments and thoughts.
With the worlds resources being hit hard time and time again, and the global collapse of commerce, what about printed material?
All printed material is dependent upon trees to a degree, obviously recycling and alternative materials are used. But what struck me was the waste; what happened to the books, newspapers and magazines that weren’t sold? Waste! True may be recycled again, but hardly any printed matter will use 100% recycled – in most cases it’s just not suitable.
With Amazon’s Kindel2 on sale in the States I really think this is the way forward although it’s a shame the Kindle isn’t quite there yet.
Update: Amazon.com is now selling the Kindel2 on an international basis, this includes the free transfer of your electronic publications. For more information visit Amazon.
Ebooks of course have been with us for a long time but it’s only recently that Amazon, Sony and others have turned their focus to truely portable and usable products.
With a few years more development on the amazing low power epaper we can expect to seelarge full colour displays that take hardly any power at all – this I hope will be start of a slow end to printed matter such as books, magazines and papers. I believe of course that not all printed matter will fall prey to the epaper.
With the reduction of printed matter, delivery will be simpler, an RSS type feed will ensure you papers and monthly mags are delivered ok time with little in delivery costs.
I’m all for it TBH, so roll on Kindle 3-4-5…
What do you think?
Twitter Honors
It’s Friday again, and on Twitter that means its’s #followfriday!
It’s an ongoing tradition to recommend new people to follow, generally it’s done in Twitter itself, but you only get 140 characters which isn’t much – today I’ll be updating this post with all the poeple that so kindly recommended me.
Free coffee
Only a short post; really enjoying my free coffee from SB.
Playing with some new iPhone apps which will apppear in a up and coming blog post.
Been a busy week, and I’d like to welcome all my new followers on twitted, proud to say that over the past week my follow count has past 1,000 – thanks to everyone.
