by Derek Morrison, 20 May 2010 Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. Today’s posting is an addition to my de facto segue on ebooks, words and techno-anxiety a topic I’ve addressed at [...]
Archive for the ‘ePublishing’ Category
Ebooks what ebooks?
February 21st, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 21 February 2010 (updated 24 February 2010) Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. In a fairly detached way I’ve been interested in the trajectory of the ebook concept and [...]
Apple iPad expectation management challenge
January 28th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 28 January 2010 (updated 30 January and 4 February) I’ve got a serious ebooks posting in the works which I’ve been delaying until Apple launched what some in the geek community called the Messiah Machine or what we now know to be its official name iPad. That posting is for the future [...]
Lisa Jardine on ebooks
January 9th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 9 January 2010 The BBC’s Radio 4 transmits the 10 minute programme A Point of View which they describe as “a weekly reflection on a topical issue”. The 8 January 2010 reflection was on ebooks and offered by Lisa Jardine under the title A Page Turning Passion. The transcript and MP3 download [...]
iPhone, iTouch, iTunes, iNewsagent, iNfinity?
January 3rd, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 3 January 2010 N.B. The following online essay represents the views of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my posting Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars? (Auricle, 6 December 2009) I wasn’t convinced that the [...]
Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars?
December 6th, 2009
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In my posting Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’ (Auricle, 1 September 2009) I argued that newspapers are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. Their current business model is failing because of the internet but yet a compensatory move online is confounded, so the press barons would argue, due to a [...]
Google as the digital ‘Library of Alexandria’?
November 3rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 3 November 2009 There’s an interesting On the Media item called The Infinite Shelf (27 March 2009) about Google’s vision of creating the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. I think it’s well worth listening to the MP3 download of this interview with Harvard’s Robert Darnton author of Google & the [...]
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice
October 16th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 16 October 2009 As a follow on to my posting JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts (Auricle, 15 October 2009) I note that Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice (Grainne Conole and Martin Oliver – Eds) is now available, in the US at least, as an ebook [...]
JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts
October 15th, 2009
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JISC offers a growing archive of podcasts. The 15 September 2009 podcast e-Books provide ‘safety valve’ for librarians caught my eye (and ears). Those interested in how ebooks may impact on scholarly information sharing and dissemination may find the findings of the underlying research by the National E-Books Observatory Project most interesting. Key points of [...]
Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’
September 1st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 1 September 2009 One of my areas of interest is what is happening to the newspaper industry and how, and if, they manage to get out of the nose dive to extinction they currently appear to be in. There’s a lot written about this phenomenon of the digital age but I found [...]
