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Writing The Book Is Only The First Step

12.02.2010 Books and Literature

When I first considered turning Writing Assignments into a book, I thought about just harvesting what I’d published here, dropping it into a word processing document, and saving it as a PDF. Easy peasey. But a couple of things became clear. It looked horrible. I could never distribute it that way. Friends encouraged me to [...]

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Buy My New Book, Please! Writing Assignments eBook and Paperback Now Available

11.30.2010 Books and Literature

This is a big day for me!  I’m very excited to release my new book, Writing Assignments, based on the series I started here at First Today, Then Tomorrow. I’ll try not to overhype this book, but I am very proud of it. It contains many of the assignments I’ve published here and several new [...]

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Three Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn’t Buy A Kindle (Or Other Dedicated e-Reader)

03.25.2010 Books and Literature

Yesterday I laid out Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers. Today let’s talk about the Kindle’s disadvantages and why it might be a better idea to purchase the iPad. Amazon is not a computer hardware company. Amazon wants to sell books and other goods. They see the Kindle as a means to an end. The [...]

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Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers Like The Kindle

03.24.2010 Books and Literature

The iPad approacheth. Is it complete doom for dedicated e-readers like the Amazon Kindle? Yes, but not quite yet. There are MANY advantages of a flexible solution like the iPad, but the Kindle retains three distinct advantages. These may not be enough, and they certainly won’t remain distinctive for long, but they are still very [...]

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Why Apple’s iPad Is Under-Hyped

03.18.2010 Business

April 3rd. That’s the big date. It’s not the Singularity. But it does herald a major shift in the way that ordinary people interact with computers. And if that isn’t enough, I believe that the iPad and its successors will transform not just computing, but several other major and seemingly unrelated industries. Here are my [...]

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