MachineMachine /stream - tagged with amazon http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book http://io9.com/5892026/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book #1 Reason to buy a Kindle: Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine: http://t.co/eW3qTpcz via @io9 ]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:35:42 -0700 http://io9.com/5892026/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book E-books Can't Burn http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser E-books Can't Burn: Could it be that ebooks bring us closer to the essence of the literary experience? @nybooks http://t.co/IMoUdFtP ]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:20 -0700 http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser The Great Tech War Of 2012 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies that have come to define 21st-century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Over the next two years, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will increasingly collide in the markets for mobile phones and tablets, mobile apps, social networking, and more. This competition will be intense. ]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:25:13 -0700 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly print editions published by university presses, indistinguishable at first glance except for a few glaring markers. Like a mismatched cover image -- -- or excessively expressive titles: Closer examination reveals their undead status. In the case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica, the publisher is the aptly-named BiblioLife, a project of BiblioLabs, which designs software "to address the challenges of cost-effectively bringing old books back to life." (BiblioLabs takes… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:06:15 -0700 http://blog.whitneyannetrettien.com/2010/12/zombie-editions-archaeology-of-pod.html The last stand of the Amazon http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/03/last-stand-of-the-amazon The best way to think about the remaining tribes in 2011 is to imagine a series of concentric circles, all of which interact on each boundary. There are the tribes that stay on their own homelands in the forest (or seek to do so), but who have regular relations with the outside. These retain a strong tribal identity, but they are coming to know the world all too well; they will travel to fight legal battles for their territories and their children will leave for the cities. Then there are a good number of tribes (or parts of tribes) who… ]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:07:07 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/03/last-stand-of-the-amazon The most isolated man on the planet http://www.slate.com/id/2264478/pagenum/all/ He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a decade launched numerous expeditions to track him, to ensure his safety, and to try to establish peaceful contact with him. In 2007, with ranching and logging closing in quickly on all sides, government officials declared a 31-square-mile area around him off-limits to trespassing and development.
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