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"In the Old World, computers are general purpose, do-it-all machines. They can do hundreds of thousands of different things, sometimes all at the same time."
"In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a game, but not all at once."
I’ve had Google Wave for a few days now.
Without being cheesy, this is one amazing collaboration tool that may change everything between email and chat.
It is still in early stages and the more I use it, the more I’ll find uses for it, the more it’ll change the way we interact. More to come.
Here is a public wave I started, using Wavr, a usable plugin I found on the WordPress galaxy:
[wave id="googlewave.com!w+MOY0hOzkB"]
You are free to join the conversation. I hope more users will join the gWave soon.
"Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them. Fortunately, there is an explanation for these counterintuitive outcomes that can help us choose a more appropriate evaluation course."
"Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them. Fortunately, there is an explanation for these counterintuitive outcomes that can help us choose a more appropriate evaluation course."
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage.
People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it.
Now these companies that created the big information beast will find ways to sell their solutions to other companies. Smart asses.
Link: NY Times
“I didn’t grow up buying every book I read,” said the English born Mr. [Nick] Gaiman, 47. “I read books at libraries, I read books at friend’s houses, I read books that I found on people’s window sills.”Eventually, he said, he bought his own books and he believes other readers will, too.
Neil Gaiman decided to give away one of his books free online (initially for a month), as a “celebratory birthday thing” for his blog’s 7th birthday.
You can vote and help him choose which one its going to be on his site.
At the same time, NYT publishes an article on how HarperCollins Publishers will begin offering free electronic editions of some of its books on its Web site.
About a month ago Lawrence Lessig announced that the last of his books is now free to download (and remix).
After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
On January 1st, Charles Sheehan-Miles decided to give the electronic version of his book, Republic, for free.
No more sample chapters, partial books that end in the middle, none of that. You can download and read the complete book. Share it with your friends, email it, do anything you want with it except sell it.
Here’s why: the biggest challenge most authors face isn’t online piracy. It’s not people out there diabolically copying their works and distributing them for free. In fact most authors (including yours truly) suffer from a different problem entirely — no one has ever heard of them. After all, literally hundreds of thousands of new titles come out every year, and only a few hundred writers in the entire United States (if that many) actually live off their books full time. So, by giving away the book, I hope more people actually read it.
Chris Anderson wrote about it at the time:
For the vast majority of authors, being read is actually reward enough. How to turn that recognition into a living is a whole other process, and not necessarily one that depends on the traditional book industry to deliver. Good thing, too, since it so rarely does.
I think 2008 is a good year for electronic book publishing. Let’s see what it’ll do for other media publishing..
BTW, a nice feature is that you can search in most of these books (and many more) in Google Book Search.
I found this on the blog of one of my partner fiancé wife’s professors. As well as he did, I found it hilarious…
Herbert A. Millington
Chair – Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall
Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109Dear Professor Millington,
Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.
This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.
Despite Whitson’s outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.
Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.
Sincerely,
Chris L. Jensen
[Originally from here]
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