Although it is reasonably obvious that digital magazines are much less damaging to the environment than printed consumer magazines (Chris Anderson has a weirdly contrary view), it is quite hard to do serious measurement of the ecological cost of digital publishing. Steve Souders has done some analysis of web sites with Yslow in an attempt to put some cash/calory value on the inefficiencies of the Wikipedia home page. This is highly conjectural and guesstimatory but probably important. O’Reilly are … Keep Reading
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Utopia is now digital in Exact Editions
- ToC
- Another design magazine with fabulous ads.
- A bath with a view.
Rumours have it that the iPhone SDK due to be launched today will not support Flash. Steve Jobs is being quite rude about Flash. But perhaps this is all part of some complex 3 way face-off between Adobe with its well entrenched position on PDF, Acrobat and Flash; Microsoft with its new and promising Silverlight; and Apple which has its own good reasons for not being beholden to anyone for a plug-in.
Who knows? Well it matters to … Keep Reading
Microsoft has a very nice implementation for its Book Search.
See here for some examples ‘C Elegans and Mutations’, or ‘Girard and Scapegoats’, and ‘Quine and “semantic ascent”‘
When you mouse over the individual titles in the search results the second panel shows information specific to the title: including a rule which shows the distribution of the search results within the title (the rule is imperial rather than metric, or maybe its binary: it has 32 segments). That … Keep Reading