No, the only real reason to adopt coercive curation is to attain a monopoly over a platform – to be able to shut out competitors, extract high rents on publishers whose materials are sold in your store, and sell a pipe dream of safety and beauty that you can’t deliver, at the cost of homely, handmade, personal media that define us and fill us with delight.
via Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk.
I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today. Not just looking at it, but browsing menus and interacting. This is a revolution, guys.
via Seth’s Blog: Paperback Kindle.
č morto a cornish a novantunānni.
va ben’, dispiace, anche se, prima o poi.
speriam che almeno ci faccian su una edizione speciale commemorativa dell’ipad con tutti gli inediti del vecchio recluso inclusi in formato epub.