Filed under: Computers Hot on the heels of Amazon's highly anticipated Kindle 2 launch comes this: news that Hearst Corporation -- which publishes iconic magazines including Cosmopolitan and Esquire along with the San Francisco Chronicle -- will be launching its own wireless e-reader. While many may...

I should begin this post with “it’s about time,” and I guess I just did. Hearst Corp., like all print publishers, is having a hard go of things lately, and of course those financial difficulties began long before we started talking about the global economic chaos we are all living ...

Hot on the heels of Amazon's highly anticipated Kindle 2 launch comes this: news that Hearst Corporation -- which publishes iconic magazines including Cosmopolitan and Esquire along with the San Francisco Chronicle -- will be launching its own wireless e-reader. While many may be quick to label this...

The Kindle 2 is one of those gadgets that people either love or hate. One the one hand it’s a glimpse into the more versatile, eco-friendly and portable future for the written (and spoken) word. On the other hand it is also the devil’s dandruff, a little white monster that is attempting ...

E-book hater Nigel Farndale is at least nice enough to be amusing in his rant—both wittingly and unwittingly. Headline in the Telegraph is The next book after the e-book is the ex-book: E-books will kill books, just as the iPod has killed music… Let an anonymous editor step out and share...

From time to time, I'll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I've already covered Twitter, citizen journalism, alternative models for newspapers and other t...

Filed under: Gadling Gear Review It's no secret that I love the Amazon Kindle - the electronic book reader made our top 25 lineup of best travel gadgets for 2008, and despite several minor shortcomings, most readers picked it as their favorite gadget as well. The Kindle has been a massive success - ...

I had the chance to do a brief hands-on with the Kindle 2 after its introduction today; in contrast to last time around, review copies were not available to the press. I've gone on record with a list of complaints about the first generation version, and suggested that there may have been little Amaz...

While we're still waiting for our electronic broadsheet (hell, we'll settle for a tabloid) it looks like folks in Toshima will be seeing quite a bit of the e-paper as they hit the streets of this Tokyo ward. In a test conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the signage has ...

It’s amazing how people don’t get it. Last year Monty Python decided to make all their videos available on You Tube. But it’s more than that. Here’s the text from Monty Python’s You Tube channel: For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousan...