Comments on: Relativity http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/03/30/relativity/ Just. One. Column. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Rocket http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/03/30/relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-213739 John Rocket Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:07:23 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=877#comment-213739 Cyberspace: First Steps - while it might not be in your local library - it is on Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Cyberspace-First-Steps-Michael-Benedikt/dp/026202327X It'll be a good day when the physical library is gone. I agree with the Kindle problems you discussed - people need to be able to underline, add comments, manipulate the e-text and if it was easy to use and workable... it would be a joy! Imagine just having all these texts and you could do a simple search to find your thoughts or just display the underlined passages (dated at last change) with your notes attached! That will be the killer-app for any eReader! The companies on the 'passive reading' side of the equation - not on the capacity for the reader to alter the text for their own purpose. Maybe the eReader is just a transition - it will be folded into the tabletPC - like iPod => iPhone. All the best, and I've enjoyed reading some of your entries on PNG. Cyberspace: First Steps – while it might not be in your local library – it is on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Cyberspace-First-Steps-Michael-Benedikt/dp/026202327X

It’ll be a good day when the physical library is gone.
I agree with the Kindle problems you discussed – people need to be able to underline, add comments, manipulate the e-text and if it was easy to use and workable… it would be a joy! Imagine just having all these texts and you could do a simple search to find your thoughts or just display the underlined passages (dated at last change) with your notes attached! That will be the killer-app for any eReader! The companies on the ‘passive reading’ side of the equation – not on the capacity for the reader to alter the text for their own purpose. Maybe the eReader is just a transition – it will be folded into the tabletPC – like iPod => iPhone.

All the best, and I’ve enjoyed reading some of your entries on PNG.

]]> By: Andrew http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/03/30/relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-199312 Andrew Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:36:12 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=877#comment-199312 You're at #4 as of this writing, on my browser. (Ever notice how sometimes that makes a difference with Google?) You’re at #4 as of this writing, on my browser. (Ever notice how sometimes that makes a difference with Google?)

]]> By: Tad McIlwraith http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/03/30/relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-197851 Tad McIlwraith Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:19:05 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=877#comment-197851 "First, that many of my students will not have the physical ability to find stuff in the library that I do because they did not grow up learning to check to see if books had fallen behind the rest of the books in the stack, had been misfilled, etc." You are so right. I was shocked recently when the librarians at our college told me that they actively discourage students from browsing in the stacks. The argument against this was something to do with the non-intuitive nature of the library of congress filing system. I told them this advice was ridiculous. “First, that many of my students will not have the physical ability to find stuff in the library that I do because they did not grow up learning to check to see if books had fallen behind the rest of the books in the stack, had been misfilled, etc.”

You are so right.

I was shocked recently when the librarians at our college told me that they actively discourage students from browsing in the stacks. The argument against this was something to do with the non-intuitive nature of the library of congress filing system. I told them this advice was ridiculous.

]]> By: Seth http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/03/30/relativity/comment-page-1/#comment-197350 Seth Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:38:00 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=877#comment-197350 #2 actually, but you try harder! #2 actually, but you try harder!

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