Here’s hoping that the next version of iBooks gets the PDF highlighting and notes that were introduced for ePubs today.
If I finish some work ahead of schedule this week, you all might suffer a rant filled with my hopes and dreams for notes and metadata on the iPad, tentatively entitled, “Content Creation, Not the Herculean Task it’s Made to Be.”
This essay from The New York Review of Books is sort of a skeptic’s take on the iPad, ebook readers, and recent technological developments more generally. The overall tone seems to be intensely conservative to me.
I’m trying to imagine a person reading this and afterwards trying to decide on a gadget for dad for Fathers’ Day. A person who doesn’t plan a day around every Steve Jobs keynote and doesn’t know about RSS or HTML5. I think that person would be confused and maybe a little scared for the future.
I don’t think the future is so scary. I think it’s really very exciting. We need to share the joy. If you’re the least bit intellectually curious, today is the best time in the history of the world to be alive. Apple isn’t going to squash that. They couldn’t if they tried.
Link via AK.
A Defense of Apple and the walled garden from Neven Mrgan. The post would make more than a couple libertarians proud.
If they are going to make us use DRM, they’ve got to solve the library problem and create a model for genuine sharing.
I agree (via DF).
After getting called out in a talk last week for using my iPad to take notes (thanks Bill!), one of my colleagues wanted to try it out. I made a crack about being worried that the Mail app might have emails of me making fun of him, which I think only made him nervous to really mess around with the device.
Steven Johnson:
a “generative” platform translates to something like this: a platform that is constantly being re-invented in surprising new ways by a diverse group of creators, where individuals, hobbyists, small startups, and amateurs compete on a level playing field with large incumbents.
Sure sounds like the iPhone OS Era to me.
I just created some content.
