Diversity in Ratings
Scene Stealer – The Web Is Pouncing on Hollywood’s Ratings – NYTimes.com
The standard Hollywood ratings — G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — must now compete with all manner of Internet-based ratings alternatives, some of which are gaining new traction through social networking tools.
SceneSmoking.org, which monitors tobacco use in …
Introducing the Kindle DX
Amazon introduced the Kindle DX at a press event this morning. It’s the big screen Kindle everyone’s been waiting for, but it comes with a big screen price: $489.00.
What do you get for that? Well, it’s two inches taller and two inches wider than the normal Kindle, making it about an inch smaller than an …
Kindle: Textbook Edition
Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks – WSJ.com:
Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people familiar with the matter.
… A larger-screen Kindle would …
What Makes the iPhone Work
Gruber, on why the iPhone is so successful:
One obvious but wrong answer would have been for Apple to start with a phone. That’s what most companies in the mobile handset industry have done and it’s led them to a dead end. The problem is that while successful complex systems evolve from simple systems …
Where's the High Speed Internet?
Bits: The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?
Many countries have faster and more widely available high speed Internet service than the U.S. It has a lot to do with their urban density, not our poor technology.
In case you were wondering.
Your Children Are Safe Online
The Internet is not, in fact, a seething mass of sex criminals just waiting to attack unsuspecting children. Anyone who’s spent any amount of time online knows that, but now we finally have proof. Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – NYTimes.com
The task force, led by the Harvard University’s Berkman Center for …
Apple proposes tiny RF modules for ever-present connectivity
I’d just like to point out that I advanced this idea during my sophomore or junior year of college (sometime between 2002 and 2004). My college friends can verify that — I promoted the idea to pretty much everyone. But I never wrote it down, so I can’t really prove it to the world. Oh, …
Thinking About HD Camcorders
The new HD camcorders are different from traditional camcorders in several ways. The most obvious is the stunning picture quality. Never have your most banal home videos looked so good! But I’m most concerned about the technical differences. Here are a few of my notes.
Tape or Tapeless?
Many of the newest HD camcorders leave out the …
MacBooks and Firewire
I was initially excited about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models from Apple. Then I noticed that the new MacBook doesn’t include a Firewire port. This is a bit of a big deal for me. My Panasonic video camera requires Firewire to download videos to the computer. I like using my MacBook to download …
Kindle vs iPod
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The main advantage of the Kindle over the iPhone is actually the fact that it’s not a phone; do you realize how high you jump when you’re sitting in a quiet place deeply into a horror novel, and right at the scariest part, the damn thing RINGS at you?!