future of the book newspreservation and persistence of the changing bookWired- (Found July 6, 2008 ) "You write a function to map the data: "Count every use of every word in Google Books." That request is then split among all the computers in your army, and each agent is assigned a hunk of data to work with. Computer A gets War and Peace, for example. That machine knows what words that book contains, but not what's inside Anna Karenina." Wiredhttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_sorting blog- (Found July 6, 2008 ) The FotB.org blog has gone comatose again. Ever since Dan left they appear unable to gather their banners and move on.http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/ Teleread- (Found July 6, 2008 ) "I cant wait to see more phonee-reader combos. While therell be demand for dedicated, Kindle-style devices, multi-use gizmos will be the real stars in the world of e-bookswhether phones hybrids or general purpose tablets and mini-notebooks." Telereadhttp://www.teleread.org/blog/ |