Pixel Qi

From this comparison it looks like the Pixel Qi is almost as good as E-Ink technology.

Few short links

New book: The World is Open
http://worldisopen.com/bookshelf.php

Smart Grid Standards: Road Map a Month Away; Vint Cerf Weighs in
http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS295503766420090824

Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-Be Kindle Killer
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090824/barnes-noble-lands-irex-another-would-be-kindle-killer/

Flatworld Knowledge doing very well!

"After a sort of beta earlier this year, Flat World is set to announce on Thursday that over 40,000 college students at more than 400 colleges are going to be using their digital, DRM-free textbooks in the Fall semester, up from 1,000 in 30 colleges in the Spring."

Source: Wired

The multimedial 3D web here soon?

If you combine O3D http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/ (impressing 3D!),Canvas, SVG, CSS, XML,Ajax, Native Client, WebGL, with Google On2 recent aquisition I think we will reach a the point where the browser will do almost everythin very soon.

Newspaper in war with themselves

"If ever there was an article at war with itself, this is it."
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001361

Google News four times bigger from today

The Google News Archive grows fast:

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/extra-extra-updates-from-our-growing.html

The Gecko Edubook coming in August

http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html

ePub format the new PDF?

"EPUB became in standard in September 2007, but the big step came in May 2008 when the Association of American Publishers (AAP) issued an open letter to IDPF announcing their support of the open standards format, said Smith. EPUB titles started hitting online bookshelves early this year."

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/epub-next-pdf-190

Sony, Intuit, Adobe and Microsoft in the open source business

Open source is mainstream just in case someone was doubting?

http://opensource.imageworks.com/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10298333-16.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4527

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/8948.html

600 000 USD in fine to sell a pair of blue jeans...

"Suppose back in the days of the Soviet Union a young man in Moscow was fined $600,000 for selling blue jeans on the black market. Would the news media just report the sentence and discuss whether or not the convict was repentant? Possibly, but my guess is that the article would comment on how the Soviet Union was failing in getting consumer products to its population. It might include some economic analysis mentioning the enormous losses that the economy suffers by banning simple trade. It might even treat our black market blue jean dealer as a hero.

Anyhow, why is there no discussion of economic issues when a student gets a $675,000 fine for transferring copyrighted music over the Internet? The copyright system imposes enormous waste on the economy, including the enforcement costs associated with prosecutions like this one. We know of other ways in which creative and artistic work can be financed. Is there some reason that the copyright protected media never discusses them?"

From Dean Bakers blog