Month: July 2009

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	9:18pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @bobfine Sorry I didn’t get up there today — more going on than I expected. Hope the event went well! Good to meet you at the game Sunday
	2:53am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. A la carte and the Apple tablet
	2:57am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. a la carte and the Apple tablet. The catch: Application-based delivery is worse than DRM. http://booksahead.com/?p=681
	3:00am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @rmack: @isocchennai: Where would I find an IETF tshirt that shows "Political" as one of the layers of Internet Architecture?| So True
	3:01am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. it’s so hot in the Northwest that I am working at night, sweating by day. 94F in my office this afternoon.
	4:05am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Pearson’s digital pay-off still awaited
	4:10am	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Digging into Pearson’s results for e-book and FT digital insights. Was Kindle snubbed in the prezzo? http://booksahead.com/?p=684
	4:07pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Headed out to Safeco for Mariners baseball and record heat. There tonight and tomorrow, so drop by and say "hi." I’ll be the one sweating.
	7:30pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Mariners up 1-0 after 1st. Washburn is on his game tonight. Chris Shelton — the travel gnome– spears a drive for nice double-play in 2nd
	7:52pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @GuyKawasaki: How to not suck on Twitter: http://om.ly/?CRPP AC | How about just being yourself, not a product?

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	2:28am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Apple’s mythic beast: These tablets don’t come from God
	2:52am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. iRiver’s got another Kindle competitor
	3:07am	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Samsung also leaping into the Kindle cage fight

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	3:40pm	Will the creepy orphan conquer the world?
	3:42pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Will the creepy orphan conquer the world? Alaskans already know the horror. http://bit.ly/ex7eT
	3:43pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @jakeludington: bring back 2009 Mariners. not sure why 2008 team showed up to play Cleveland this weekend | It was Balentien, we was key?

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	2:42pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Random House UK caught in e-royalties stupidity
	2:51pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Does this mean “free” is working?

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	3:06pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. A funny thing happens on the way to a Pynchon novel
	4:12pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Assessing Amazon’s quarterly report: 783,000 Kindles sold to date
	4:35pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. A bookstore with no books, but lots of coffee
	5:29pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Assessing Amazon’s quarterly report: 783,000 Kindles sold to date #Kindle http://bit.ly/lEA9u

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	12:09pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Plastic Logic e-reader will feature AT&T 3G
	12:24pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Amazon strikes UofMichigan reprints deal
	12:54pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Pricing guru: “price cannibalization should be the least of a book publisher’s worries.”
	1:12pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. EFF seeking authors concerned about reading privacy
	1:47pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @gadgetboy you are right — video cable/connector. Apple should fix free
	4:43pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @jeffjarvis Jeff–How do you know that’s a cablevision employee? It looks like the address resolves to their commercial network, not corp.
	4:51pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @jeffjarvis Why else? Trolling…. I wouldn’t wait all day, either, btw. No one should.
	4:57pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @sdmeyers: Now that Amazon has bought Zappos, does that mean they can sneak in my closet and take back my shoes? | touché

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	12:27pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Challenge to Chris Anderson: Put some substance behind “Free”
	12:40pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. PW to host Google Settlement webinar
	6:43pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. DRM isn’t dead, it is always regrouping
	6:46pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. RT @tmeyeratplay: Weird…i have never seen Starbucks ‘engage’ via social RT @JohnAByrne Most Engaged Brands http://is.gd/1FKmT | struck me2
	6:47pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. DRM isn’t dead, it’s always regrouping #ebooks #Kindle #iTunes http://bit.ly/Izu6G
	8:40pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Barnes & Noble moves, embracing Google and Plastic Logic
	8:42pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Review and summary of Barnes and Noble’s e-bookstore launch. #e-books #publishing #e-reader http://booksahead.com/?p=635

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	5:40pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Closed: Polymer Vision wraps up its story
	6:08pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. A good discussion to drop in on…..
	6:21pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. University presses collaborating on e-book program
	6:43pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Making a paper book e-lectric: Selected great histories of the book
	6:58pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Amazon and Apophenia
	7:00pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Amazon and apophenia–there’s more than one explanation for Amazon’s bungled customer moves. http://bit.ly/yqAO3 #Kindle #Amazon
	7:02pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Some great histories of the book and printing for your reading enjoyment http://bit.ly/WSkWy #publishing
	7:11pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @alevin I have a Kindle for new and old classics, but any scholarly book needs some margins for notes and pages for flipping back and forth
	7:38pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @alevin we’ll be sharing notes eventually, though some privately. I think the private thoughts will drive lots of future paper editions too

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	4:42pm	Mitch Ratcliffe posted an item. Why the Kindle 1984 deletions actually matter: post hoc restraint
	4:43pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. Post hoc restraint: Kindle 1984 deletions demonstrate a new risk in reading and to free debate. http://booksahead.com/?p=602 #kindle
	5:36pm	admin posted a tweet on My Twitter Feed. @wongster360 definitely a boneheaded move. if they’d stopped and thought for a second, it wouldn’t have been as bad. still dangerous

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