On January 18th Eastman Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York. The firm was laid low by the rapid shift to digital photography and away from film, where Kodak once earned 70% margins and enjoyed a 90% market share in America.
Move with the times or get crushed. The textbook industry is next.
The keynote is up for those who want to see the new textbooks in action. The crowd seems dead, aside from the man who yells “yeah!” frequently during the iBooks Author demo.
Shawn Blanc describes his methods for identifying great ideas, discerning them from merely good ideas, and how he keeps track of them:
I suspect many of you can relate to the dilemma of having more ideas than time. Which means that, in addition to endurance, we also need discernment to know what ideas are worth pursuing and what ideas we should let go of.
Discernment is anything but an exact science, but I do have a bit of a routine that I find myself acting out every time one of my ideas seems to have an extra amount of energy behind it.
Great post. I keep a notebook beside my bed for those times when I think of something worth writing down as I’m attempting to sleep.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
Huge.
These enhancements have made great strides in terms of educational value, convenience and price. However, Mike Matas has pointed out a peculiarity:
Even though I no longer work for Apple apparently I’m still designing some of their products. http://pushpoppress.com ➜ http://apple.com/education
The reactions from across the web are plentiful, to say the least. It will be interesting to see how successful this venture becomes. I’m willing to bet that the iBookstore isn’t an enormous success. It’s doing well, but not spectacularly.
Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that, just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit.”
As if the current state of copyright law wasn’t detrimental to content creators and the general public.