In 1910 a French cartoonist named Villemard predicted how book content would be repurposed in the year 2000. When he drew this picture, radio had been in use for over a decade, but apparently M. Villemard couldn't imagine textbooks being transmitted wirelessly. Or maybe he just thought it looked funnier with wires.
The headsets would have looked right at home in a high-school language lab, circa 1970. I love how the students have no pencils or paper, as if they're downloading their lesson… Continue
Posted by Victor Curran on February 1, 2009 at 4:30pm
The Romantic Novelists' Association, has announced the shortlist for the Romantic Novel of the Year, and Hqn/M&B authors India Grey, Jessica Hart, Fiona Harper & Kate Hardy are all nominated for this distinguished award.
Fiona Harper has been nominated before, and both Jessica Hart and Kate Hardy are past winners. Kate Hard… Continue
Former Washington Post editor Steve Coll blogs in The New Yorker that the way to save the institution of traditional newsrooms with investigative journalism and reporters in far-flung corners of the earth is for a paper like the Post or the New York Times to become a nonprofit organization.
The typical spend rate for endowed nonprofits is in the five-percent range.
A lot commentary about the future of journalism and the need for large, well-funded media organizations centers around the need for the fourth estate to stand up to the other, equally well-funded estates.
Seth Godin weighs in with a post entitled "When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?," notes that only newspapers seem to be able to keep government honest.
The Romantic Novelists' Association, has announced the shortlist for the Romantic Novel of the Year, and Hqn/M&B authors India Grey, Jessica Hart, Fiona Harper & Kate Hardy are all nominated for this distinguished award.
Fiona Harper has been nominated before, and both Jessica Hart and Kate Hardy are past winners. Kate Hard… Continue 
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