I’ve been babbling like a stoolie for Pepper here for the past couple weeks, but after some prodding by Roger Sperberg I’ve started to take a serious look at the Nokia 770 linux-based internet tablet. To get me started is Mike Cane’s hands on report from some time spent with it at LinuxWorld Expo. Nokia [...]

Posted August 3, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: electric forest, internet tablet, internet tablets, mike cane, nokia, nokia 770, pepper, pepper pad, portable computing, roger sperberg, teleread, ultraportable, web pad. 9 Comments.

I’ve been talking about it a lot lately, most recently in a comment at LibDev.
In the old world, information companies could create value by limiting access to their content. Most of us have so internalized this scarcity = value theory that we do little more than grumble about the New York Times’ authwall or similar [...]

Posted July 15, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: accessibility, accessible resources, authoritative, electric forest, google, google economy, information, jenny levine, new york times, oclc, scarcity, search engines, the shifted librarian, value, value equation, value theory. 5 Comments.