As a Kindle heavy user, I was intrigued by several recent news about e-reader. The first one was a New York Time article deconstructing the essence of e-reader. The author argued that the reading experience of e-reader, unlike most people thought, was actually a linear one, similar to the ancient book format: scroll. It’s the codex, the book format we’re familiar with today,... Read More
Google+ has its way of surviving, but the key is on users, not on Google itself. When Google+ launched several weeks ago, I concerned this would be another failure like Google Wave and Buzz. This judgement was mainly based on two reasons: firstly, why bother to move my Facebook social network to another Facebook? Google+ does provide a very excellent UI, but it has no way to compensate... Read More
Old media may not be entirely obsolete, as long as technology is culturally based. Last week, when I told a literature teacher that BBS is still widely used in Taiwan, he couldn’t help but showing his shock and excitement. For him, it’s so hard to believe that this entirely text-based billboard system didn’t be abandoned by this multimedia age. Even though we could take Craigslist... Read More
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