What conservatives can teach the free culture movement…

Well, it’s a bit of an an american perspective, but I appreciated the insight of Lawrence Lessig nonetheless, and I don’t think it’s limited to the states.

iPads & Print

Best piece I’ve read yet on the impact of the iPad on book publishing:
Books in the age of the iPad from Craig Mod:

Print is dying.
Digital is surging.
Everyone is confused.

The whole publishing business is changing, and the kind of reading devices plays a major role in it. As Craig puts it:

IT’S NO WONDER WE LOVE OUR PRINTED BOOKS — we physically cradle them close to our heart. Unlike computer screens, the experience of reading on a Kindle or iPhone (or iPad, one can assume) mimics this familiar maternal embrace.

Early Morning Reading

Again, John Gruber from Daring Fireball get’s it: The Apple-HTC Patent Thing. Well worth reading for both insight into the problem of software patents in general, and the strategic implications of suing your competitors. Last time Apple did this on it’s own initiative was AFAIK suing Microsoft over Windows…. they’d better concentrated on innovation.

After poking them with a stick – or rather an often cited piece of speculative jornalism – Foxonn let out the capacity and early number of iPads in production in Digitimes. 600,000-700,000 iPads in March and one million units in April… looks like my up-to-now estimate of 5 million units was rather conservative compared to Apple’s expectations.

Site restart…

OK, too many people were asking for my web site, so I simply had to redo it.

The structure is set, so now I’m about to transfer all the stuff from my other sites to this one.

So, this is it, I hope that the custom CSS works fine on all those browsers. I tested Firefox, Safari, IE beginning with IE 6 and it seems oky. If you experience any issues, please just let me know!