Month: January 2013

Open Government book from O’Reilly

Post author By The Publishers
Post date January 27, 2013
Categories In Civics, Tech, Writing
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This book Open Government, which publisher O’Reilly released to memorialize hacker Aaron Swartz, is just a fantastic smorgasbord of writing about government and participation and technology, some of it dated or auxiliary but all top notch and thought-provoking. Particularly, so far, Beth Noveck’s chapter on deliberative versus collaborative government. Hope to write more reading notes […]

Business Journal: Pomegranate delves into eBooks

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Post date January 27, 2013
Categories In Tech
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An item I co-authored in the Wilmington Business Journal about the e-book deal that indie booksellers, through the American Booksellers Association (ABA), have struck with Kobo books to sell devices and ebooks in their bookstores, focusing on local bookseller Pomegranate books: With the rise of the eReader and tablets, fewer people are reading physical books, […]

Home Automation and Hardware Hacking

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Post date January 25, 2013
Categories In Tech
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Cape Fear Economic Development Council » Ideation » Cape Fear, Home Automation, and Hardware Hacking. A post I wrote some time ago about Arduino and hardware hacking and the next big thing: Here’s a macroeconomic idea, tuned for this region and our demographics: To ride the next big wave of Internet technology, which many people […]