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Well, shoot I thought the new dotReader authoring tool was out. I guess not yet, though it's hard to gauge the currency of the blog posts there, with no dates. (Maybe they scrubbed out the dates because they weren't hitting their marks for shipping the thing!) Shoot, I'd set aside some time to try it this weekend. I've been curious about David Rothman's remarks here and there that the OpenReader format will allow for online discussion within the ebook app. I don't know if dotReader planned to offer that right out of the box or not. Wonder if I can look at a beta. I like the idea of the content creation tool working with Drupal. I've played around a little with Drupal's book module, v. quick and easy. Testing through clenched teeth Adobe is beta testing its Digital Editions. It's pretty slick. Uses Flash. Reads both PDF and XHTML. It still seems closed up tighter than a clam. Something about knowing this
is in HTML, and it's in public domain, but I can't copy and paste a passage, makes me grimace. Picky about type My Photoshop stopped working at home. I'm not ready to pay for the full version and I'm not sure there's an extra license at work, so I've been testing Gimp and Paint.net. I won't be able to use either of them. Lots of little things just don't measure up, mainly type rendering. I sure hope there isn't any trouble at the polls on election day In case there is, this campaign seems like a good idea. What a good way to use citizen video. Watching the video gave my old radical heartstrings a little pull. Steve Gillmor's been hearing echos of the 60s lately, too. Who are these people? I don't usually read YouTube comments. Are they always so childish and moronic? Many of them sound like a certain faction of Rocketboom commenters who are Mikeys -- they hate everything. Along with hate.*, they never grasp a single subtlety (like those who thought yesterday's piece ought to have moved along at a brisker pace -- arrrgh). I trust Andrew is perceptive enough to do some filtering, even though he famously listens to comments and bends content to please commenters. In yesterday's comments a few viewers who are gifted with sublety tried to shape the conversation and help construct the proper filter. Interesting dynamic. The YouTube commenters are people I never run into in real life (unless they behave a lot differently online). I think they're young, and I don't think they read books. I'm curious about them and creeped out by them, and I'm sure they're the crowd you'd have to engage if you wanted a big mass consumer hit on the web. I'll stick to niches for my visiting and creating pleasure, thank you very much. The internet will become more like TV. It was inevitable:
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