The next information wave
It’s easy to hate the most over-used phrases used to describe the web age – paradigm shift, knowledge revolution, Web 2.0 etc.
But hey we’ve all faced the tyranny of an empty page – it’s tough out there. And faced with amazing changes to how we locate information represented by Google and the other search engines it’s easy to reach for the bottle of superlatives.
Posted under Kewl
This post was written by @Drivelry on February 22, 2010
With the aid of the public domain Calibre e-book management application, which enables you to automatically subscribe to any news website (via RSS) and the increasing prevalence of the open (non DRM) EPUB electronic book formats that you can dump Adobe Acrobat PDFs to, you may find that books are the last thing you read on your e-book. Let’s face it, paperbacks are easily available. Where e-books really come into their own (assuming you’ve installed Calibre) is in pulling down content from the web (and making it comfortable to read anywhere without a computer), content you normally cannot get in hardcopy unless you want to run your laser printer overtime. Documents and news content like:
Posted under Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on January 28, 2010
Amidst the turmoil in the newspaper publishing market there is one big problem for journalists leaving the safe-ish harbour of their big name publications and starting to experiment out on their own (if you are still wondering why you should be doing this read this as to why your safe harbour aint safe).
Posted under Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on January 17, 2010
Imagine as a small business owner you go and buy an office suite, off-plan in some big office development somewhere from those well known property developers Bodgett & Bludgett.
Now imagine that following the completion of your new office suite your property developer plasters large signs on every customer-facing entry point to your office saying ‘Building designed and built by Bodgett & Bludgett Property Developers’.
Posted under Hate pets
This post was written by @Drivelry on November 20, 2009
A couple of years ago I managed to loan my television to various friends who were broke or in transient accomodation or both.
My TV-less period lasted 3 years in total.
Posted under Cliche watch
This post was written by @Drivelry on October 15, 2009
It’s often tempting to see changes happening around you as somehow far more significant than they are. The ‘new‘ is seductive, and we all want to feel that momentous things are occuring that we’re just lucky enough to witness.
Posted under Kewl
This post was written by @Drivelry on September 11, 2009
In Drivelry’s continuing mission to convert the obscure into ‘scure’, it is remarkable how some movies do so well at the box office and others do so undeservedly badly.
A great case in point is the film “The Jane Austen Book Club”. Despite the title you really don’t have to know anything about Austen to appreciate this film.
Posted under Kewl, Reviews, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on August 18, 2009