How To Reset Kindle Furthest Page Read

One of the coolest things about the Kindle is that it keeps your content in sync via the Amazon Whispersync service. So you can skip between your kindle, the iPhone app or even the Cloud Reader in your web browser and stay on the same page in your reading material. Amazon takes care of all [...]

New and notable for September 27th 2011 through October 1st 2011

What I’m reading and finding for September 27th 2011 through October 1st 2011: Eastman Kodak Mulls Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com- dealbook.nytimes.com – By ANDREW MARTIN and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED The troubled camera company has hired law firm Jones Day to assist on a possible restructuring. Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will [...]

New and notable for August 28th 2011 through August 31st 2011

What I’m reading and finding for August 28th 2011 through August 31st 2011: “Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | TechCrunch- techcrunch.com – MG Siegler When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from [...]

Amazon Shuts Down California Affiliates Over Taxes

Here is the letter that Amazon sent to affiliates tonight:

New and notable for June 23rd 2011 through June 24th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for June 23rd 2011 through June 24th 2011: From Twitter – RT @zenchaos Google kills Google PowerMeter, here is how to export your data http://bit.ly/kwye3G From Twitter – RT @peasap Why JK Rowling’s Pottermore will frighten traditional publishers and rightly so http://t.co/YMwDLUH Evan Williams | evhead: Five Reasons Domains Are [...]

New and notable for June 1st 2011 through June 4th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for June 1st 2011 through June 4th 2011: Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme | Groupon IPO| Knewton Blog – knewton.com – Jose Ferreira I would love to be wrong about this. Especially given the fallout in the tech economy if Groupon blows up. But isn’t it really pretty obvious [...]

New and notable for May 27th 2011 through May 28th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for May 27th 2011 through May 28th 2011: In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own, Private Internet – WSJ.c… – online.wsj.com Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called n…   Urban Outrage | Regretsy – regretsy.com – Helen Killer By now you have probably [...]

Web curation for February 26th 2010 through March 2nd 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 26th 2010 through March 2nd 2010: Phishing Returns to Twitter Via Direct Message [WARNING] – mashable.com Another wave of Twitter phishing has erupted this afternoon, with a spat of direct messages that read “somebody wrote something about you in this blog here” with a link [...]

Web curation for February 1st 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 1st 2010 All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend « Whatever – whatever.scalzi.com Leaving aside the moral, philosophical, cultural and financial implications of this weekend’s Amazon/Macmillan slapfight and What It All Means for book readers and the future of the publishing industry, [...]

Web curation for January 12th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 12th 2010 Police fight cellphone recordings – The Boston Globe – boston.com cc_chapman: RT @newmediajim: Boston police arresting citizen media who sho shoot video of arrests in public http://is.gd/68g9R From Twitter – RT @DowntownRob How to Secure Your Facebook Profile Now That They Don’t Care [...]