Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Essay: "Why I Blog"

An essay in the November 2008 issue of the Atlantic by Andrew Sullivan explains why he and others say "blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics:  more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive."

Read more at:  Why I Blog

Thursday, October 9, 2008

IPhone Takes Lead Over Kindle for Readers


According to Forbes and the Chroncile of Higher Education, Apple's iPhone is now a more popular e-book reader than Amazon.com's Kindle.  The reason? Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's iPhone App Store has been downloaded 395,000 times and the rate of downloads is steadily increasing.  The next step for Lexcycle, which designed Stanza?  Expand the iPhone library, which as of now only contains books in the public domain.