Ink Scrawl

Arts, Culture, Literature "Publishing is changing. I’m ready to see what it turns into and change my expectations with it." ht...

. . . can actually be fun. Geetha Krishnan shows how to attempt  Twittering for Sadness  (or tries to. He is having way too much fun to be s...

Look again at that dot .

. . . It depends. The e-learning maven explains .

. . . such applications are created? Exhibit 1 — answer.im : Instant messaging answering service Exhibit 2 — bedpost ( "It's bus...

. . . and more examples of the Cupertino Effect: How Spellcheckers Wreak Havoc

It looks like Delicious doesn't have much confidence in Google's "Do no evil" philosophy. When Google launched its browse...

Anybody out there who doubts technology and cartoon humor don't fit?

Finnish Road Administration has introduced smart " Text-to-Pee " toilets in Western Finland. Restroom visitors have to SMS/text ...

Shakespeare has a very rich lore and fantasy environment second only to Tolkien, . . . Both have elves. Professor Edward Castronova and col...

On Google's clean, white homepage the little "I'm Feeling Lucky" button has survived in spite of many changes to the page ...

White Smoke software announces a computer program that is said to turn " prosaic dunces into lyrical poets ". White Smoke claims ...

From Get With the Program: From the fountain pen to the word processor, writers have always embraced technology to make their task less ardu...

A few decades ago, the most popular science fiction epics were works like Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy or Frank Herbert’s Dune series—s...

The web is profoundly changing the way books are found, read, and talked about, and in almost every case, Victor Keegan feels, the change is...

It's the morning of July 21st, 2007. The last Harry Potter book is out. You forgot to pre-order it. You decide to go to the local books...

Because of this information explosion, we no longer read - we skim. The news that used to last a day now lasts just a few hours, simply beca...

We have one of our clients from Germany visiting our office for a few days. One of my colleagues who was closeted with the client in some l...

Tired of using the same old, boring MS Word? Word Perhect is the program for you. Any program that asks you to "make sure your alarm i...

A neat video that traces the evolution of the web: from hypertext links to linking people. Link via Geetha Krishnan