Day: September 21, 2006

Posted on

Finally, An Ebook Reader I Can Actually Buy

The Illiad is an incredibly light and thin electronic book reader with a touchscreen and stylus. The resolution on the electronic paper screen is excellent. The hardware currently comes with the following interfaces: USB type A connector for USB memory stick, CF type II slot for memory extension or other applications, MMC slot for MMC memory cards, 3.5mm stereo audio jack for headset, WIFI 802.11g wireless LAN, and 10/100MB wired LAN. It has 128MB of internal memory for content, but will also be able to pull content from USB sticks, CF cards, MMC cards, and the internet. The full specs can be found here.

O’Reilly Radar > Illiad, a new ebook reader

I’m glad to see these things move out of vaporware.  FWIW, the Illiad reminds of the Fourteen40 ebook prototype I saw at AALS in January 06.

Blogged with Flock

Posted on

Berkman Website Picks Up Journalism Award

The Knight-Batten Foundation awarded Global Voices Online, a citizen media project run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism.The Knight-Batten Awards spotlight the creative use of new information, ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues. They are administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Global Voices Online is Awarded the Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism from the Knight-Batten Foundation – Berkman Center for Internet & Society

I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online until I saw this announcemnt. From the Global Voices about page:

Our global team of regional blogger-editors is working to find, aggregate
and track these conversations. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most
interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups”
section. A larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily
features in in the left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what
blogging communities in their countries have been talking about
recently.

There is a lot of information here and the site provides an interesting alternative source for news and information about what is going on around the world.

Blogged with Flock

Posted on

Take Your Windows With You

Creating a portable computing environment is not that difficult: just copy the portable applications you want to a USB stick or other removable media, and you’re good to go. However, if you want to make your daily portable computing more effective, you have to solve at least two problems: managing portable applications and synchronising data between the USB stick and your computer.

NewsForge | Two nifty open source tools for portable Windows computing

Blogged with Flock