When a company makes a mistake, as Amazon did when it deleted legally purchased copies of 1984 and other works from the Kindles of their customers, the mistake is usually acknowledged (if it is acknowledged) with a luke-warm statement such as We regret that some people took offense to our actions, which, if you look [...]
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Do people really want to cuddle up with a piece of technology? No, I don’t mean it like that. I’m talking about Kindle, the wireless reading device from Amazon. The prevailing wisdom is that for an e-reader to succeed, it will have to make people want to “cuddle up” with it like they do a [...]
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With all of the hostility and violence in the news today, it is refreshing to see someone take a different approach to conflict resolution–humor. In this case, a man named Pete discovered that his neighbor was stealing his wireless internet access. The solution? Redirect their traffic to a kitten site and filter their pages so [...]
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Guy Kawasaki defines a blogger as “Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do.” While I admit to spending a fair amount of time reading blogs when I have nothing to do (see the blogroll in the sidebar for a sampling of them), I promise never to assume that you, gentle [...]
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