Submitted by Tom Peters on November 6, 2009 - 3:22pm
Everything I read and hear about the forthcoming Nook portable eReading device from Barnes & Noble (http://www.nook.com), including Jason Griffey’s post here on the TechSource blog, indicates that the Nook will bea significant new development in the burgeoning portable eReader device market. It may become the much-anticipated Kindle Killer.
The Nook clearly is not a crock, but earlier this week, a news release raised another question: Is the Nook a Crook? Read More »
The concept of storytelling is older than human history itself. Before the invention of written language, wisdom, knowledge, and information were passed down orally, and often through what would today be considered stories. In one sense, storytelling has always utilized the latest available technology. Some have said that cave paintings and other ancient findings were sometimes used to tell stories. It may be hard to think about prehistoric drawings on a cave wall as a form of technology, but at the dawn of human civilization, they were just that. Read More »
LibLime Launches LibLime Enterprise
Koha, or, Rift Splits the Koha Development
Community
Part I: LibLime Enterprise Koha
LibLime has launched an enhanced version of the open source Koha ILS, called LibLime Enterprise Koha (LLEK), hosted on a highly-scaleable platform and designed to offer a broader set of functionality with high reliability and fast performance. LLEK makes use of Amazon’s platform-as-a-service cloud computing infrastructure. Read More »
The concept of storytelling is older than human history itself. Before the invention of written language, wisdom, knowledge, and information were passed down orally, and often through what would today be considered stories. In one sense, storytelling has always utilized the latest available technology. Some have said that cave paintings and other ancient findings were sometimes used to tell stories. It may be hard to think about prehistoric drawings on a cave wall as a form of technology, but at the dawn of human civilization, they were just that.
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