Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

Out with the old media, in with the new! I came across a pair of unrelated articles that illustrated the same point for two different media: ignore communities at your peril. Newspapers: Not Adding Value In the first article, Mike Masnick of TechDirt points to a newspaper lawsuit to illustrate what ...

I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

In the New York Times’s “Bits� blog, Saul Hansell ponders why it is that iPhone (and iPod Touch) users are willing to pay for content for their devices. For example, the iPhone app version of David Pogue’s iPhone: The Missing Manual (which I reviewed here) was the best-selling edition of tha...

One of the most often-cited aphorisms of the post-Napster age is that musicians (and other artists or authors) will have to make a living selling other things than just the music in their albums (or their other basic works). Drummer Josh Freese (ex-member of Nine Inch Nails; current member of the Va...

Steven Brill, founder of Court TV and the Clear airport security bypass service (among other things) has a cogent summary of what is wrong with the newspaper industry and the New York Times in particular, as well as a plan to save it. The article is worth reading for Brill’s analysis of the fl...

History really is repeating itself today. You will probably get tired of Amazon news by the time this day is over, and certainly we will wait the bulk of our coverage until Amazon actually makes its announcements. (Engadget is tweeting the 10 a.m. ET press conference live, here.) However, I noticed ...

Over on Time Magazine, Josh Quittner wonders how to give magazines a more compelling mobile reading experience than the distraction-filled web version. He looks briefly at the Kindle before dismissing its lack of touch screen and monochrome display as not being as good as paper. He touches on the Pl...

Now that the site is working properly again, here are some follow-ups to past stories I have posted. "Newsasaur" here; PDA D&D and the Missing Manual after the jump. Newsasaur Roars Alan D. Mutter—the ex-journalist blogger whose editorial "Why newspapers can’t stop the...

Found on Slashdot: India is soon to unveil the prototype of its 500-rupee ($10) "nano laptop." According to the Indian secretary for higher education, “At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down.” Not much is known about ...