E-Books Schwartz on Network Services Listened to the latest Gillmor Gang Show, with Jonathan Schwartz as guest. Sun's Schwartz is one very smart cookie and a very effective speaker. The following quote in particular stood out for me: "We [Sun] want a world where there are tons and tons of interesting, interactive iPod equivalents - where people are doing interesting things with… Richard MacManus View comments
E-Books First eBook Purchase A couple of weeks ago I was bitching that none of my favourite authors had their most recent books available in eBook format. Well as luck would have it, Tom Wolfe just released his new novel I am Charlotte Simmons and it is available as an eBook! I went to 3 sources to check out the prices: Fictionwise had it for US$15 (but with a 50% rebate… Richard MacManus View comments
web Combined Subscriber Stats for Aliased RSS Feeds This is a copy of a suggestion I've just sent to Bloglines Support. It was inspired by a Feedburner Forums thread I started a few days ago, regarding whether Feedburner was counting all of my RSS feeds in their statistics. Turned out they weren't and there was indeed an issue "with online aggregators when you have multiple aliases to a single… Richard MacManus View comments
Design Branding Microcontent Well here I am blogging in my pyjamas. Not literally, but metaphorically. Chillin'. Taking stock. Thinking about goals for next year. I've also been thinking about my Design for Data theory and while I've been doing that, a few posts elsewhere have attracted my attention... First a "in a nutshell" re-cap of what Design for Data means to me… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Blog Aid Successful To wrap up what has been a busy week, yesterday I finally got some momentum going in the blogosphere with the O'Reilly interview. Thanks to Jason Kottke, Robert Scoble, Phil Pearson (btw welcome back Phil!), Lucas Gonze and all the others who kindly linked to it. What happened was, I published Part 1 of the interview first thing Monday morning… Richard MacManus View comments