CBS "Sunday Morning" today featured a profile of almanac author Ben Schott in which Schott expressed a belief I've long held regarding the wonderful serendipity of browsing the stacks of major library: "It's always the book next to the book you're looking for that's the really interesting one."Which is why it's a shame that so … Continue reading Open-Stack Serendipity
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Warner Backs Blu-Ray: The Beginning of the End of the High-Def Format Wars?
Warner Brothers Entertainment today announced that the company plans to release high-definition movies exclusively in Blu-ray format beginning this spring, which comes as a major blow to the competing HD DVD camp. Only two major studios -- Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures -- are now providing high definition content exclusively in the HD DVD format, … Continue reading Warner Backs Blu-Ray: The Beginning of the End of the High-Def Format Wars?
At Least You Can Still Go Home.mcom.com
Here's a trivia question: Where does the following URL take you? http://home.mcom.com If you haven't already clicked it, here's the answer: It goes the Netscape home page (now AOL's netscape.aol.com). [Update: Since this post was written, http://home.mcom.com has been restored to its appearance on October 21, 1994. For the details, see the post by former … Continue reading At Least You Can Still Go Home.mcom.com
Avoiding the “Excluded Middle”: Counter Moves in a Down-Market Trend
Jon Fine's "Media Centric" column in the December 13 BusinessWeek describes the launch of Tyler Brûlé's Monocle magazine which, contrary to current publishing trends, focuses on a high-end product that revels in its print origins. Fine writes, "In a manner almost wholly lost at American magazines, [Monocle] cherishes the primacy of a print publication as … Continue reading Avoiding the “Excluded Middle”: Counter Moves in a Down-Market Trend
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