I’d like to thank everyone who entered the contests earlier this week. Surprisingly, more people wanted the USB backup battery than other prize.( I would have gone for the backpack, myself.)
3 of the 4 prizes have shipped. The 4th has not because the winner never responded to my email. Since I have not heard back from the winner of the flashlight, I plan to run the raffle again and pick another name.
BTW, I also decided to add one of the E-ink capsule balls to each prize. Surprise.
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Look at the screenshot. Guess which one is me?
Freescale has opened the polls for their 2012 Smart Mobile Device Pundits. You can vote once day until the 7th of February. Please go vote for me.
And remember, if you vote for anyone besides me someone, somewhere, will be required to buy a Sharper Image Literati. And they’ll be forced to like it, too. You don’t want that to happen, do you?
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Yesterday I invited feedback on my new blog theme, and today I thought I would explain what else I did last week. I haven’t seen very many posts like this online, so I hope that this finds its way to other bloggers with similar problems.
For the longest time now I have been unhappy with the performance of my blog. It was slow to load and I kept getting 404 and 500 errors while trying to do basic stuff behind the scenes. I complained to my webhost, but they refused to even try to help.
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I got a complaint earlier today about my new blog theme, so I thought I’d open post and ask for feedback. Wht do you think?
If it’s been a while since you visited, here are the changes I made.
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On 24 January 2010 I registered the URL www.NatesEbookNews.com and launched a blog. In the 2 years since I’ve broken dozens of stories, ferreted out a large number of secrets, and became the site that TechCrunch called “pretty much the best source online for ebook news“. It’s been lot of fun, and the coming year will be more of the same.
I know that it’s common for blogs to celebrate anniversaries by giving away gadgets, but the end of January is too close to Christmas and CES. I’m not sure anyone would be interested. But I will be giving away all the swag I picked up at CES 2012, including:
BTW, I’m merely delaying the gadget giveaway, not skipping it. I am saving the really big celebration for mid-March. I have the good fortune to have 2 anniversaries due to the fact that I changed the name of the blog in mid-March 2010 to The Digital Reader. And since I get to choose, I’m going with the later date as the official anniversary.
Stay tuned. With luck I should be able to give away at least a couple toys you won’t find elsewhere.
image by Will Clayton
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For the past couple years now Freescale has been naming a list of Smart Mobile Device Pundits. This is an awkward name for group of bloggers and journalists are considered the most influential in tech and gadgets.
While it’s not the best name, the 2011 list is filled with bunch of smart people, including me, David Pogue, New York Times, James Kendrick, ZDNet, Walt Mossberg, All Things Digital, Warner Crocker, GottaBeMobile, Brad Linder, Liliputing, and many more.
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Photo: Christmas tree by book designer John Webster.
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Hey folks.
This trip to NYC was only a day trip, so I’m heading back home today. I’m on an uncomfortable bus at the moment, and since it is stopping me from getting any real work done I decided to post an update on my plans.
I plan to get a couple major post up tonight. One will be a detailed post on the 3 new Kindles and the other will be a reflection on my travel experiences. This trip has taught me that when it comes to getting work done, Win7 tablets still win out over Android (even Honeycomb).
I’m also going to get caught up on the news I didn’t post today. All in all, this was a frustrating but moderately successful trip.
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This is just a brief not to let you know that last night I added a couple new resource pages on the blog. I also reorganized the various resource pages (reviews, free ebooks, etc) under a new page. They were beginning to crowd the front page menu bar again.
The first new page is a listing of websites where you can buy digital textbooks. I’ve found 11 ebookstores so far and I will likely add more as time goes on.
The other new page is a list of companies that can make digital magazines. You might recall that I asked for input on this last week; a number of people contributed suggestions and let me say that I deeply appreciate everyone’s help.
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This is just a brief note to let everyone know that I’m setting out a tip jar. There’s now a subscribe button in the sidebar with several options ranging from a modest $1 per month to an extremely generous $10 per month.
The tip jar is going up for the obvious reasons; I need money (who doesn’t). I’d much rather not have to handle the money stuff but I can’t ignore it any longer. To be honest, I never wanted to run a business; I wanted to let someone else do it while I found interesting stuff to write about. But so far I haven’t found an advertising setup I like which could pay me enough to make it worthwhile. Nor have a found a business partner.
If the $10 a month isn’t enough, just let me know. I can always add another option. *grin*
Edit: Apparently the button didn’t make it through the RSS feed. Whoops.
Second Edit: At the suggestion of a reader, I’ve changed it to offer both a dollar a month and $25 a year.
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