1. Aarron Walter

  2. The Evolving Publishing Industry

    If the publishing industry can deliver on the promise made by the iPad and rich media technologies, a content renaissance could be around the corner fueled by throngs of customers ready to shell out for a more compelling experience.

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  3. The HTML5 Video Battle

  4. RSS in Plain English

    In many of my classes we use RSS readers to subscribe to a number of different content sources relating to course topics. Explaining RSS to students who are completely new to the idea is sometimes tricky. Common Craft has recently published a wonderful video explanation of RSS, and how to get started consuming feeds. He doesn’t mention my favorite feed reader, though. Watch the Video: RSS in Plain English
  5. Future of Web Apps Podcasts

    Carson Workshops, the creators of Think Vitamin, puts on short conferences examining hot topics in the Web world featuring a host of luminaries speaking about the various facets of their topic. They often post podcasts of each talk, and their recent The Future of Web Apps Summit is the latest in that series. Kevin Rose, Jeff Veen, and Tantek ?áelik are just a few of the big names who spoke at the recent conference, and all of this knowledge is free for your listening pleasure. The topics cover UI design, the business of building and selling your web application, development practices, APIs, and more. You can download each talk individually or subscribe to their RSS feed to get them all at once.
  6. Mac Attacks in the Near Future?

    CNN is reporting a story we have all heard before, but perhaps there is finally some validity to it this time. Macs have had little to worry about with viruses, Trojan horses, and the like in the past because their market share in the computer industry was small enough to avoid enticing hackers to launch attacks on their systems. Apple has seen steady increases in sales of the Mac, selling 1,610,000 Macs in the recent quarter, with many purchases being made by Windows PC users (50% of Mac sales in Apple stores was to new Mac users). Apple is becoming a bigger target for hackers as they increase their market share. Hopefully they will prove more successful with security issues than Microsoft has. Apple’s recent iPod virus blunder is, however, not encouraging.