{"id":1336,"date":"2009-02-19T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2009-02-19T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:31:30","slug":"briefly_noted_iphones_oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/briefly_noted_iphones_oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"briefly noted: iphones &#038; o&#8217;reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ars Technica has a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/reviews\/2009\/02\/ars-exclusive-review-papers-for-iphone.ars\">review<\/a> of an interesting-sounding iPhone application called Papers, designed to make it easy to carry around a library of scientific papers on your iPhone. It works with a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2007\/03\/minireview-papers-for-os-x.ars\">desktop app<\/a> also called Papers; it also interfaces with various scientific search engines so you can download more papers on the go. It&#8217;s not free, and it&#8217;s not for everyone, but it&#8217;s nice to see software that seems to understand that different kinds of reading need to be done differently.<\/li>\n<li>Thematically related: Adam Hodgkin <a href=\"http:\/\/exacteditions.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/why-kindle-does-not-have-enough-kith.html\">argues<\/a> that dedicated e-book devices generally lack an awareness of the place of the network in the task of reading; this is more natural in things like the iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Jason Epstein&#8217;s keynote from O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Tools of Change conference is now <a href=\"http:\/\/toc.oreilly.com\/2009\/02\/full-text-of-jason-epsteins-to.html\">online<\/a>. There&#8217;s not much in here that&#8217;s particularly surprising to anyone who&#8217;s been paying attention to the field for the past few years&nbsp;&ndash; the Espresso Book Machine is still his hope for the future of publishing.<\/li>\n<li>And James Long, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thedigitalist.net \">the digitalist<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/thedigitalist.net\/?p=447\">wrap-up<\/a> of Tools of Change.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Cairns <a href=\"http:\/\/personanondata.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/presuming-no-book.html\">points out<\/a> that the trouble with e-books is that publishers still think of them only as an electronic version of the print book.<\/li>\n<li>Ted Nelson, who we mention here from <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/ted_nelson_the_ideologies_of_d.html\">time<\/a> to <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/ted_nelsons_still_on_the_job.html\">time<\/a>, has a new, self-published book out, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/geeks-bearing-gifts.com\/\"><em>Geeks Bearing Gifts<\/em><\/a>, which is his own deeply idiosyncratic take on the history of the computer and how we use them, starting from the invention of the alphabet and explaining exactly where things went wrong along the way. Ted Nelson, of course, is the inventor of hypertext among other things; I hope to have an interview with him up here soon.<\/li>\n<li>And there&#8217;s a new issue of <a href=\"\"><em>Triple Canopy<\/em><\/a> out; not all the content is up yet, but Ed Halter&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/canopycanopycanopy.com\/5\/television_for_the_people\">Jeff Krulik and public-access TV<\/a>&nbsp;&ndash; something of a Youtube-before-Youtube and Bidisha Banerjee &amp; George Collins&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/canopycanopycanopy.com\/5\/flash_yr_idols\">memoir\/video game combo<\/a> are worth inspection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a review of an interesting-sounding iPhone application called Papers, designed to make it easy to carry around a library of scientific papers on your iPhone. It works with a desktop app also called Papers; it also interfaces with various scientific search engines so you can download more papers on the go. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}