In the dumb internet marketing department, I have this bit of info. Saw a text ad that stated, “We help you self-publish.” Do you find this a bit funny?
Last time I’ll mention the Samsung E-60, an e-book reader I’m excited about. The new retail release date is now March 18, 2010. Here’s a Youtube demonstration.
“>The announcement was made on 3/9/10. The Samsung ereader will be available shortly. It’s retail price is now supposed to be $299, not $399 as predicted. It is touch sensitive and will lessen the potential for nerve damage in the hand and arm. There were reports it was going to be sold through Barnes & Noble. Apparently this isn’t correct. However, B&N puportedly has a business partnership with Samsung to provide content. If you are reading this on March 10th or 11th, you will not find if for sale. Try searching beginning March 12th. It will be interesting how many entries the E-60 will get.
Samsung e6 e-reader an advance over kindle?
To prevent carpal tunnel and other repetitive stress injuries, the samsung e6 may provide the necessary tablet/stylus technology to avoid pressing on the forward/backward tabs on Kindle which, at least for me, began to excerbate my medial nerve injury that had been giving me no trouble for 18 months. Do not risk getting this disorder. It is terrible. I had a four-hour micro neurosurgery to correct it. I contacted Amazon about this what I perceive to be a design flaw; have not gotten an answer. Other touch sensitive e-readers are reahing the market. The e-6 is scheduled for retail sales this month 3/10.
Additionally, Kindle may be aware of its flaw, as this report suggests:
Right before Apple brought its iPad to the surface, Amazon announced that it would be offering apps on the Kindle, a move that was obviously meant to position it head to head against the iPad. Of course, Amazon’s device lacks pretty much everything that the iPad offers– outside of e-reading capabilities.
According to a New York Times article, Amazon is preparing to upgrade the Kindle to better position it against the iPad. The retail and e-reading giant reportedly purchased Touchco, a NY start-up that specializes in touchscreen technology. Amazon will roll its new company into its Kindle hardware division.
Touchco’s touchscreen technology is significantly less expensive than that used in other devices, including the iPad; is transparent; can work with full color LCDs and can recognize an unlimited number of simultaneous touch points.
The NY Times got the information from a “person briefed on the deal” and Amazon has not confirmed or denied it. Assuming its true, the market could welcome a touch-based Kindle somewhere down the line.
I believe there is a major design flaw with the current Kindle, and all models up until now. I think Amazon may be aware of it, since they’ve bought a company that creates touch screen technlogy. The problem is the forward and backward buttons. If you have ever had carpal tunnel or any repetitive stress injury in the hand or arm, the Kindle may exacerbate it or if you had such problems in the past, Kindle may re-activate it. You’ll notice that as you click these buttons, the action is very much like clicking a mouse: this is a major complaint among keyboard users, both typists and graphic artists. That is one reason the tablet/stylus input device has become popular. You may not find any problem now, but continuous pressing of these buttons may inflame the medial nerve. There are e-book readers that do have the tablet/stylus technology. One, a British version, was released this month.
Everyone knows standardized testing is a bunch of nonsense, and doesn’t signify anything of importance. Still, it’s fun to consider which students scored the worst. Regarding the verbal part of the GRE’s, here are the five lowest average scores by intended field of concentration. This does mean something, although understanding just what is probably difficult.
Special Education
Early Childhood Education
Education - Administration
Education - Early Childhood
Business - Accounting
This is what Matthew W. Barrett , CEO of Barclay’s Bank had to say:
If you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet.
Teach kids the humanities, and give them a broad liberal education, and I’ll teach them business skills. I hate schools that have been co-opted by business. I’d rather you taught people to think, because the limiting factor in executive development these days is people who can’t do lateral thinking. Instead, they have a vocational skill or a technical skill, and it runs out of gas very, very early. The ones who will end up in the top 20 jobs in the organization worldwide are people who can stand back and examine the context in which business operates and can connect the dots in creative ways and transform the business congruent with some of those directions.
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