There is only one thing you should read today: The editors of Mediascout, one of the better media critique services out there, have put together a nice piece on the historical conflict that Canadians are currently seeing across their front pages this week.
While crying into our beers (Molson or Labatt) about the CBC’s loss of the Hockey Night in Canada song, Canadians also dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools and the upcoming apology to Natives from the federal government. Link.
How many Kindles and Sony ebooks are there in the world? From the Oxford University Press blog. Link.
The WWDC starts at 1 p.m. EST and web searches for Apple, iPhone, and Steve Jobs have gone up over the past thirty days. From Google trends. Link.
Similar data from Hitwise. Future historians will love this sort of information. Link.
Interesting bit on Generation Y regarding information usage, particularly books. From ReadWriteWeb. Link.
What is the most depressing industry to work in? Portfolio will tell you. Link
Video of a small bookstore in Germany. No real story here, just a video of small bookstore in Germany. From Monocle. Link
The Long Now Foundation’s “Seminars About Long Term Thinking.” Link.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the drive in theatre, from Smithsonian Magazine. Bring me popcorn and a fried pickle! Link.
CNN”s take on the Kindle. Link.
The grand migration from TV to personal computers… march… march… From ReadWriteWeb. Link.
Euro 2008 is coming. Can you feel it? From Google Trends. Link.
Social networking + Web 2.0 + manure = food for all. Interesting take on the removal of “market” from “farmers market.” From The World’s Fair. Link.
What 200 calories looks like. From wiseGEEK. Link.
Some great book covers on the book cover blog. Link.
Signandsight.com regularly does a European magazine round-up. There are hundreds of fantastic mags featured here that can’t be found in Canada. Link.
An article from the Scientific American community on “The Reading Brain.” Link.
From ReadWriteWeb, interesting blog widget called Zemanta that suggests content as you type. Link.
Changing the way we find things: postal-code search mixed with keywords. From HitWise. Link.
Great book review from the NYT of “Quote Poet Unquote.” Link.
Publishing 2.0′s brief history of Google Adwords. Link.
The Atlantic, on the Amazon Kindle. Link.
The Bebook, another ebook. Link.
Sketchtastic post from Bldg Blog. Link.
Cannot find this on the main NASA page, but here it is from Warren Ellis: Martian ice?
Link.
The economics of bird poop. NYT Link.
More discussion on the death of the book as we know it. Just a little more. Please. The title of this article is terrible: “Troubled book world is going for novel ideas.” Ugh. Link from the LA Times.
A new tribe in Brazil—how is this not really big news? The Times Online has aerial images. Link.
The venerable typewriter, let’s fawn over it. Link.
Highway images. Link.
Sony dug through their long tail closet and found some great images from the past. Link.
This is awesome. Pneumatic letters. Link.
Zinio is stomping around in the magazine market. For those who don’t know, they are fast becoming the go-to source for digitally delivered magazines. Link.
Tricking the tongue; from the NYT. Link.
I had forgot about this, but everyone should bookmark it: The New Yorker‘s book blog. Link.
Searching for cheap fuel, from Hitwise. This is from the UK, so I guess I should say petrol. Link.
A nice little map of Middle Eastern investments in the U S of A, care of Portfolio. Link.
Scott Karp discusses the value of advertising online, in Publishing 2. Link.
Found this blog through Boing Boing, but have come across it a few other places: Charlie’s Diary lays out the true cost of the war in Iraq. The idea of opportunity cost is a large thread in this entry—think colonization of Mars. Link.
Microsoft is shutting down their digital book scanning project. Originally trying to bring in more content for their search engine (feed the beast!), they are going to let others do it for them. From Library Journal. Link.
Round this out with some pictures of fish. Link.
Quick article on ebook readers and e-ink. Nothing new, but… Link.
This is interesting, The New York Times is releasing an API to let programmers hack the newspaper. NYT has always had a place in my digital heart; they seem to be the only newspaper that has fully taken the plunge into web and made it a ‘go to’ place for everything I want to read. Link.
The distraction virus. Link.
The prefect productivity system. Link.
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