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Eye-tracking tablets and the promise of Text 2.0
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Enlarge textSome (not all) fear for the demise of real reading and writing with iPads and tablets, but it’s more likely we’re really at the leading edge of an innovation curve that could breathe new life into the written word.
topIn his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.”
Infographic of the day: Comparing the 100 largest sites on the internet
If you took a guess at what sites get all the traffic online, you'd might guess that Google searches and social networking suck all our time online, and the rest goes to shopping. Actually, no.
Trade papers struggling in Hollywood
Variety, the show business bible, was born nearly 105 years ago when young Sime Silverman, by his own account, was fired by The Morning Telegraph for a review in which he declared a new theatrical sketch by a performer who happened to be one of the paper’s advertisers “N. G. (No Good).”
VIV's living magazine for the iPad combines magazines and movies
There's been some pretty neat concepts of how magazines will make the transition to tablets, but this new VIV magazine spread is maybe the most visually arresting yet.
China to Google: Nyah nyah nyah!
Google killed Google China search engine today.
Screw "Avatar", 3D gaming is what will get you to buy a new TV
Adam Frucci has been skeptical of the big push for 3D in TVs and movies. But he's just played the first 45 minutes or so of Metro 2033 on a top-of-the-line 3D-enabled gaming rig and, well, wow.
Microsoft workers hide their iPhones
Microsoft employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
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