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E-Readers Up Close: Using the Sony PRS-700

By William Stanek
November 18, 2009

The Sony PRS-700 has an internal storage capacity of 420 megabytes (MB) and two expansion slots: One expansion slot for Sony Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo cards up to 16 GB One expansion slot for SD, SDHC, or...

E-Readers Up Close: Using the Sony PRS-505

By William Stanek
November 18, 2009

The PRS-505 has an internal storage capacity of 192 megabytes (MB) and two expansion slots: One expansion slot for Sony Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo cards up to 8 GB One expansion slot for SD, SDHC, or miniSD...

E-Readers Up Close: Getting to know the Sony Readers, Part 3

By William Stanek
November 15, 2009

William Stanek here, continuing with the in-depth look at e-readers and e-books. The recap: In my earlier blog entries, I've explored the ins and outs of e-ink, electronic paper displays (EPDs) and e-readers. Now, I'm examining individual readers as a...

Taking a Detour: E-readers A Soap Box

By William Stanek
November 12, 2009

William Stanek here, taking a slight detour in our continuing e-reader discussion. When it comes to favorite technologies, call me a zealot because I probably am. I'm not afraid to proclaim that I love technology that works, and I think...

Four short links: 12 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 12, 2009

Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets) Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -- I'm sorry to hear it, because I...

Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?

By Mark Drapeau
November 11, 2009

Loren Feldman. 1938 Media. Audience Conference. That’s about as much of a summary as you’ll find about the Audience Conference held in New York last Friday. That’s because there were no open laptops allowed during the performances. There was also no Wi-Fi, no video streaming, no tweeting, and no blogging. Something akin to omert� joined the members of the Audience...

E-Readers Up Close: Getting to know the Sony Readers, Part 2

By William Stanek
November 9, 2009

William Stanek here, continuing with the in-depth look at e-readers and e-books. In my earlier blog entries, I introduced EPDs, discussed how the technology works, and delved briefly into ways they're being used. Now, I'm examining the Sony Reader as...

The Changing World of Electronic Displays

By William Stanek
October 23, 2009

William here, talking about the sweeping changes taking place in the world of electronic displays. Tomorrow's displays are here today and big changes are coming sooner than you think. Displays are being built into huge sections of walls, hand-held reading...

Bringing the Paper Display to Your Door

By William Stanek
October 21, 2009

William here, talking about bringing the paper display to your door. As I wrote about in my last blog post, tomorrow's displays are here today and the technologies at the forefront of these changes are E-ink and Electronic Paper Displays...

So on With the Introductions

By William Stanek
October 13, 2009

Hi, my name is William Stanek. You probably know me as that Technology guy--and yeah if it's about Windows, servers or Internet technologies, I've probably written a book about it (or two or three or lots more). Writing's what I...

A More Public Role for Public Broadcasting: Education

By Dale Dougherty
October 9, 2009

Imagine a broadcast network in America that was dedicated to education, where the best educators had the opportunity to produce its programming, and where individuals as well as institutions could develop a new genre of wide-ranging educational programs? Educational programming could elevate the role of teaching in our culture and promote the value of lifelong learning. This blog post explores...

Using Windows 7 for Music Production

By David Battino
October 1, 2009

Cakewalk has been reprogramming PCs into music studios since the days of DOS. Today, CTO Noel Borthwick explained the deep, technical details of how the architectural changes in Windows 7 will help (and sometimes hinder) audio processing.

New Tricks for the Zoom H2

By David Battino
July 25, 2009

Zoom packs a staggering number of features into its audio gear. Here are a few that were surprisingly useful when I had to record some magazine and radio demos.

Technology Innovation Site Will Launch in the Fall

By Kyle Dent
July 23, 2009

The Henry Ford, the museum associated with Henry Ford and his company, will be launching a new web site focusing on recent innovation and the people who make it happen.

Social Science Moves from Academia to the Corporation

By Joshua-Michele Ross
May 21, 2009

This is the latest of a series of posts addressing questions regarding social technologies. These topics will be opened to live discussion in an upcoming webcast on May 27 with a special guest to be announced. In order to control a thing you must first classify that thing -- and we are seeing a massive classification of social behavior. While that classification falls under the guise of making life easier (targeted ads, locating a nearby pizza joint using your mobile), history tells us that we should be leery of the motives driving the masters of our social data (see Captivity of the Commons). Social sciences (behavioral psychology, sociology, organizational development), whose historical lack of data and scientific method left them open to ridicule from the “hard” sciences, finally have enough volume of data and analytics and processing power (see Big Data) to make “social” much more scientific.

New on O'Reilly Labs: Open Feedback Publshing System

By Andrew Savikas
May 21, 2009

O'Reilly engineer Keith Fahlgren has formally launched our new Open Feedback Publishing System over on O'Reilly Labs: Over the last few years, traditional publishing has been moving closer to the...

20 Sounds that Must Live

By David Battino
March 30, 2009

Ted writes, "Enough with the Martian space-chime echoes! I just want five good bass sounds, five good keyboard sounds, five leads, and five pads that would sound good almost anywhere. If you could only have 20 synth sounds, what would they be?"

More Creativity in a Can: When Thomas Dolby Met the Rhinestone Cowboy

By Spencer Critchley
March 4, 2009

Microsoft Songsmith has been stuck in my mind lately like, well, a bad song (follow that link at your own risk). It's got me reflecting about the long trend towards using music technology to increase productivity, but not creativity. And...

Marc Bohlen: Finding the Intersection of Art and Technology

By James Turner
March 3, 2009

Artist-Engineer Marc Bohlen uses some fairly advanced technology to express his artistic visions. It's not often you find an artist with a degree from CMU in robotics, or an engineer with an Masters in Art History. Bohlen's projects explore how people and technology interact, ranging from the bickering robots Amy and Klara, to his latest project, the Glass Bottom Float. In advance of his appearance at the E-Tech conference in March, Bohlen talked to us about how he approaches art, and just what art is.

Ignite Show: Jason Grigsby on Cup Noodle

By Brady Forrest
February 19, 2009

Today are launching the first episode of the Ignite Show. The Ignite Show will feature a different speaker each week. This week's speaker is Jason Grigsby doing a talk that was originally performed at Ignite Portland. Jason takes fun look at how Cup Noodle was created and how the team had to embrace constraints and new ideas to create...

Why Ribbit is a Big Deal

By RJ Owen
December 22, 2008

If you've been hiding under a rock for the last year or so, Ribbit is a platform for voice - a strong platform that allows developers to manage and process voice content in ways we couldn't before. Ribbit is well positioned to radically change the way we view voice communication, and if you're a developer you should probably dig into it. Besides learning a great technology, there's $100,000 in it for you if you can make something good. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The Future is Here

By Lawrence O'Sullivan
December 19, 2008

Three new "technologies" are showing us the future of Web development. These technologies are: CSS Visual Effects, HTML 5, and Embeddable Fonts.

Engineering Tornado Intercepts - Dr. Joshua Wurman Discusses Mobile Doppler Radars

By James Turner
December 15, 2008

If you've watched the Discovery Channel series "Storm Chasers", you will be familiar with Dr. Joshua Wurman and his Doppler on Wheels radar, which he uses to study tornadoes up close and personal every spring. We spent some time last week speaking to Dr. Wurman about what it takes, technologically, to operate a weather radar in 100 mile per hour winds in the middle of a lightening storm. We also talked about the value of this kind of research to both tornado and hurricane research, and how having a film crew around during missions affects the science.

Obama's Emerging Tech Doctrine

By Kurt Cagle
November 12, 2008

The weeks after a presidential election are a sobering time for incoming and outgoing presidents alike ... as well as for followers of both. It's usually the day where people "come back to the office" and start to assess just how much work needs to be done. In the case of the incoming Obama administration, this to do list is likely already huge and growing.

Tech Terms Every Small Business Owner Should Know--A Forbes.com Special Report with Help from O'Reilly

By Sara Peyton
November 3, 2008

If you're running a small business or thinking about starting one in today's brutal economic climate, a special report put together by Forbes.com can help you make the right decisions about technology. The package includes five stories illuminating everything from "hardware and networking to executing and securing transactions in cyberspace." Each story includes a glossary of terms put together by a team of O'Reilly editors: Shane Warden, Kurt Cagle, Timothy M. O'Brien, and James Turner. The stories and glossaries aim to help "entrepreneurs and their employees make smart technology decisions and purchases, communicate more effectively with in-house information technology staff and, ultimately, please their customers." Read on to learn more.

Poll Results: What is the next RIA technology you want to get involved with?

By Rich Tretola
October 19, 2008

After a week, the poll results show Flex, AIR, and iPhone leading the RIA technologies that our readers are interested in pursuing next and Google Gears and AJAX at the bottom of the wish list of our readers. AJAX being...

Poll Results: What do you build?

By Rich Tretola
October 12, 2008

Last weeks poll question asked "What type of project do you spend most of your time building?". The results were spread out across all 15 choices with Multi-media (audio/video), Data visualization, and Content management taking the top three spots. I...

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By O'Reilly Media
August 22, 2008

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What Makes a Great Course?

By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

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By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

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