Here are my quick, initial impressions on the just announced / released Apple iBook Author (iBA), after I’ve spent a few hours playing with the tool to determine if it may become a viable alternative to an existing, and very expensive Adobe solution (Digital Publishing Suite, or DPS).
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From iPhone App, to Jamie Lidell… (via @TUAW)
November 6, 2011
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This post should be called “when one thing leads to another, and another…”: originally, it was intended to be just a short comment about music software on the iPhone. As a complete music dilettante [can't read it; can't sound very articulate talking about it; can't play it - but like lots of it], I am easily impressed [...]
Read moreNews.Me vs. Flipboard, Zite, and RSS Readers: a Brief Review
April 22, 2011
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After quite a buzz in the blogosphere, earlier this week (Thu, April 21) News.me app for iPad was released in the Apple iTunes store. The app has been developed with backing from and participation of the New York Times, and charges a weekly $0.99 subscription fee (beyond the 1st teaser week), so the expectations were [...]
Read moreZite iPad App vs. Flipboard
March 9, 2011
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IN SHORT: Zite for iPad is a good, promising start, but at this point it’s really more like a very early beta, at best. Two (out of five) stars seem generous, and competing with Flipboard and Reeder won’t be easy.
Read moreEbooks and Scholarship
February 20, 2011
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Chronicle of Higher Education published a timely article (E-Books’ Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars) about challenges of quoting e-books (and other sources with no page numbers) in research, and the difficulty that academic citation standards (MLA, APA, etc.) publishers face trying to keep up with the rapid changes in technology. What I found most [...]
Read moreAlternatives to The Daily?
February 10, 2011
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After a week of playing with The Daily, about which I wrote when it first launched. I have one pronouncement, and three comments to share: PRONOUNCEMENT: I give the thing three to five months before it folds. I think its chances for success are very, very slim. WHY is perhaps best explained by the following [...]
Read moreRick Altman on iPad Presentations
February 9, 2011
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“And now when it comes time to actually deliver the presentation, I am required to stand behind a podium? I have spent the last five years advocating against the use of podiums (podia?). [...] Here is where the irony becomes almost too much to bear. Can you imagine if Steve Jobs were tasked with presenting from [...]
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