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In my post about internet-based mobility earlier this week, I mentioned that the hype around mobile devices we endured during the 90's and early 21st century is finally being realized

Lucas Gonze comments on my post from yesterday: "Richard MacManus is throwing himself into eBooks. A synchronicity is that I ran across an excellent bit of non-fiction by Phillip K.

Summary: Microcontent in the form of sound bites, links and text extracts are the lingua franca of the Web. But the flipside is that context morphs very easily, so what

Open-Media.org is an Open Source Media Project launched today by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica. It's going to be like the Internet Archive, only for multimedia files. In fact Brewster

I recently wrote about a new kind of literacy, one in which Generation Y is more fluent than the rest of us. It is transforming the act of reading and

Jon Udell has kicked off a series of articles at O'Reilly Network on what he calls "hypermedia blogging": "The two-way Web unleashed by the blogging revolution is, and will remain,

Audio and video blogging seem to be hot topics currently. I myself have done two, pretty low-tech, audio blog posts. Both were readings of textual posts, one of a Read/Write

Note: This post is also available in audio format (.wav file, 2.9MB). "Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline" announced the headline at the National Endowment for the Arts website on 8