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Tech hall of shame: Amazon Kindle

December 23, 2010 JimK 2 Comments

This one’s a Brooks Jensen nominee. Brooks gives the reason why the Kindle deserves a place in the THoS: for not including ePub as one of their acceptable formats thereby eliminating 99% of library eBooks from being read on the Kindle. Is Amazon so singularly focused on selling eBooks that they can’t allow us to… [Read More]

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Tech hall of shame: Blu-Ray

December 21, 2010 JimK Leave a Comment

The picture quality is great, but the new format has come with a cornucopia of downsides. Here are a few: Got off to a bad start with the format war with Toshiba. Customers hate format wars as much as manufacturers. Nobody wants to be stuck with a Betamax. Uncertainty means that wallets stay in customers’… [Read More]

Technology Hall of Shame

Technology hall of shame

December 20, 2010 JimK 4 Comments

Technology hall of shame Photography is a technical art, and the technology of photography has undergone immense change throughout its nearly 200 year history. The pace has never been more rapid than at present. As anybody who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention for the last 10 to 20 years knows, the tsunami of… [Read More]

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Printers, revisited

December 19, 2010 JimK 4 Comments

Printers, revisited Usually, we do a holiday newsletter, for which I am the designer, editor, and printer. This year, Betty suggested that I take one of my composite photographs and put it on the front of a more conventional card. I was flattered. It wasn’t easy to find a picture appropriate to a greeting card… [Read More]

Technical, The Last Word

Selling prints by the square inch

December 7, 2010 JimK Leave a Comment

Selling prints by the square inch As I grow older, rather than becoming more set in my photographic ways, I seem to be developing an urge to kick over the apple cart. I’ve already written about displaying works without overmats. The reaction to my doing that has been highly bimodal. Many people don’t notice. Of… [Read More]

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