I just need to say: I am a voracious reader of all things. Books, ads, newspapers....etc anything. I devour anything and anything. One of my very dear friends gave me a Kindle for the December holiday's this year. What an amazing transformation.
I transfer documents to it for meetings, make notes and highlights during the meeting. I have reference material annotated for quick fact checking.
I read the following newspapers: New York Times, China News Daily, Hindustan Times, Le Monde, The Financial Times, UK Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc. Can you imagine if I had to carry just those newspapers in my bag when traveling?
I made a promise to myself (since I spend so much time on a plane) that I would "REALLY" read all of the classics that I was supposed to digest in HS and College. Ehhm....
I carried around around the entire works of Charlotte Bronte for months, it went to 5 continents and took up half the weight in my carry on.
Half my suitcase weight for the allotted 75kgs was paperwork, documents, magazines (oh note to self I need to lobby that all my publications' (I receive for free in my mailbox, that sometimes I am not able to pick up from my Post Office Box (the post master hates me because I fill my box and then he has to dig it all out and put it in a bucket) for months at a time. I read in print from IDG, Computer World, CDG, CIO mag etc, need to be published and pushed digitally into kindle, e-book format.
Save a ton of trees, not pollute the tributaries and streams from bleached paper and printing, save transportation costs etc. It's a win/win for everyone (including my postmaster) except the printers and transporters. Less Carbon, less toxins, more trees! YEA!
I have tweeted the chairman of IDG asking him to please consider e-book, kindle publishing. I wouldn't have said that prior to getting my kindle. It was painful for me to read most documents on line 16hours a day. I would find myself towards the end of the day, printing HUGE documents, research, financials, future projects etc.
Once, I actually tracked it. In a two week period of time, I used an ENTIRE box of printing paper....Yikes! I would have stacks of highlighted, scribbled on paper everywhere! Magazine piles a foot high on my desk. Torn out articles. All because my eyes couldn't stand the glare off my laptop.
*** THANK YOU who ever invented the screen and the background***
If you want to join in and try to change the way we publish if you are a geek like me IDG's Chairman's twitter is : @pathere
So Ziff Davis is a little harder as his twitter account hasn't been easy for me to find. The funny thing is you can get all the consumer magazines delivered to your kindle but not the CIO insight.
So I couldn't find the email for Jason Young the Chief Executive Officer of Ziff Davis so I am going for the editor in chief for now Brian Carlson bcarlson@cio.com .
I travel to a lot of funky, third world places that don't a stable source of high speed internet connectivity. IF (yes that is IF) I am able to send off a few mission critical emails, it costs me LOTS of $$$$ money and time (slow bandwidth, censorship) so it would be awesome if I could download it prior to going off the grid and take my kindle with me.
A word about the other readers on the market:
While I like the openness (i.e. I can download e-books from my library or Google etc) of the Sony it's design is not optimal. It is clunky and the screen has glare. If I wanted that I would just use my net book (which is what I am currently using for all of my adobe e-books from my local library) I looked at the Barnes and Noble reader and it is the same thing....you can only put the proprietary books from Barnes and Noble on it not Library books.
I will preface this by saying: I LOVE the ingenuity, fabulous design and concept of ANYTHING APPLE. I heart Steve Jobs for bucking the system and blazing trails. I was an early adopter of the "newton" (haha) the world just wasn't ready for that yet...OCR wasnt ready for that level yet. Processing speed etc. I can name a dozen reasons why it failed. But the fact of the matter is: He did it. He has helped change the way we think about computing.
I used the Next system on the trading floor of UBS. It was clean fast and fabulous. Not exactly pretty but it did the job AND I could look at what was going on in the back end in unix. Once again I digress...oh well it's my blog LOL.
That said: I 'like' the IPad, I LOVE the idea of it. I think round two will be better and I can hold out for awhile. I really would like to see it with a integrated phone. You could have a blue tooth connection.....and a camera so you could video conference. I don't care that it is bigger than an I phone. I actually can't type on the Iphone efficiently....I just don't get it. I can type one handed on my Blackberry without even looking at it because I can feel the keys and know where they are. So I am not an I phone fan specifically because I am obviously not coordinated enough to email quickly enough. However, the Ipad and I get along really well for typing. Maybe it is because of the bigger buttons. I played with the Ipad for a few hours at my local Apple store. http://www.apple.com/retail/greenwichavenue/
The business team there rocks! Especially Ryan Baum! We sat for hours one day designing an IT infrastructure from the ground up for a project I have. We finally came up with my usual Good, Better, Best scenarios to present to the client. I don't understand why more businesses don't back end with Apple servers? I have found some really cool features (that I don't have time to go into right now but perhaps in a later post) that I have to go for a deeper dive into in the near future.
I love Sun machines, they just put out a crap load of heat. But they are stable, clean and fast as hell if you are doing complex algorithmic trading or any kind of financial calculations....AND you are in the drivers seat. If it fails you can easily know why (not some dumb blue screen of death to decode) and fix it. Low level memory management, sector processing, are a breeze.
What happened to Sun anyway? I think their Data Center in a Box Idea was amazing! Scalable and Brilliant. If the UN needed to set up a DR site somewhere really quickly you could bring in a "jolly green giant" drop it in the middle of nowhere (need some solar panels, an alternate source of energy, hopefully NOT big monster UPS's and put a Mobile Sat System up and be able to run a total command and control center anywhere in the world....Now that is cool. Efficiency, Just in Time usage or even long term usage. You could efficiently run a UNHCR camp with full logistical support.
Ok back to the real stuff! I'm done for the moment. I wish the world a peaceful day! Oh and don't forget today is: #boobquake let's rock the Casbah!
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