Adobe’s trainers ran a marathon at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), which was held this week in DC. I chanced by one in the exhibit hall, was dazzled, and sat down to watch.

InDesign scores. Not only can you convert your design for the Web, but the “book” or “magazine” or “paper” can include videos. Hyperlinks, of course, work, and the publication can include widgets, like a floating calculator that can be moved from page to page…like if you’re analyzing a report. Or, a floating converter widget, if you’re reading a report from Europe and need to convert currencies, temps, lengths, weights, speed, etc., etc.

You can even set up an animation of a page turning to simulate the real thing.

When we hold the Internet in our hands, Adobe has the system to give us publications on screen.

All my book designer friends already use InDesign. Time, Inc. magazines are laid-out in InDesign. Clearly this is a software that I need to learn, too. Once I master video-making.

By the time I know the softwares, the devices might have caught up to Adobe.

download all the king s men dvdrip Say I want to work together on a slideshow (or video or podcast) with someone else — with a couple of other people — what do I need to do it?

Skype works great for voice for five computers or less and you can chat at the same time. You can do video one-to-one, but it’s harder to chat at the same time. And there’s no way to show a powerpoint or video on the same screen.

Last week, Ed Gragert from the Int’l Education and Resource Network (iEARN.org) showed me the software they are using for group work: Elluminate. The software has chat, video (or a screen shot of your face), white board for video, PPTs, writing and editing text…and Elluminate works with all connections, spanning from dial-up to high-speed. This range is critical for iEARN, which has K-12 collaborative projects going on in 125 countries.

Three workstations can use the software for free. 

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This is what I envisioned when I bought my Kindle: WPost [Atlantic, New Yorker]  >  amazon.com  >  Kindle  > read.

But my system didn’t work until this Sunday morning. 

Today’s WPost’s Outlook/Book section featured an important Q&A with David Kilcullen,

the Australian anthropologist who specializes in insurgencies, was a top adviser to Petraeus in Iraq and wrote The Accidental Guerilla.  ($20.50 by mail; $10 by Kindle.) Not only did Kilcullen reinforce what I’ve been hearing and reading about Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK), but he phrases information brilliantly, ie clearly and interestingly, with unexpected twists on information you think you know. 

Another important AFPAK insight today comes from a WPost foreign affairs columnist, Jim Hoagland, who notes that the new policy which is being studied this weekend by Obama, comes from two points-of-view — that of Petraeus, backed by his Iraqi success, and Richard Holbrooke, who “brings a different perspective, having experienced success in the Balkans but also having absorbed as a young diplomat the failure of pacification and counterinsurgency in Vietnam.”  

Hoagland says Obama went into this weekend “pondering the new document.”

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[Thanks to Renay San Miguel, TechNewsWorld for the tip.]

Plastic Logic has designed a beautiful and interesting product, but I have wondered how they could stick to their previously announced schedule of releasing in early 2010. (And this date came after last year’s announcement that they would release in the first half of 2009.)

Clearly their opportunity is right now and in six months, they may be too late, what with KIndle DX, the (perennially rumored) iTablet, and a rumored Sony large screen on the scene.

In the meantime, Plastic Logic’s FAQs hasn’t caught up with its home page. The FAQ says the price won’t be announced until early next year “when the product is released,” which may be old news and sloppy web management. Or, maybe the trials are just placeholders to keep publicity going until Plastic Logic can actually get in the game. 

I notice also in the FAQ that although 2008’s Plastic Logic publicity said larger, plastic device would weigh only an ounce or two more than Kindle 1 (about 10 ounces), the current specs say Plastic Logic weighs < 16 ounces, which is more than KIndle 2 and only a couple of ounces less than Kindle DX. 

I also wonder what this means: “It has an easy gesture-based user interface.” Not a touchscreen? Not a keyboard taking up one-third of the device space? What is gesture-based, exactly?

Do I sound cranky? Remember vaporware? I remember when I used to believe premature software claims, but not after I got suckered a couple of times. Plastic Logic feels like vapor-device. I can understand placeholder behavior, but I can be very skeptical, too.

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To me, the big news about the Apple-Amazon alliance is that they are dancing together. Forget reading books on the iPhone — my finger can’t swipe down again and again and again as fast as my eyes scan through a dinky page. Tried it once. Give it up at once. (Don’t know why I don’t have this problem reading news articles on my iPhone, but I don’t.)

My point is that Apple has the capability to produce an iTablet which could be an e-reader worth reading — large enough screen, color, wi-fi, and touchscreen keyboard, and Amazon has the distribution clout to enable a huge library. Together they could take on Google and it’s library.

But Amazon can’t do it with Kindle 2. The design is much better than Kindle 1. But it you’re used to an iPhone, you (me!) are appalled at the small screen and wasted space for the keyboard. Why not a big screen and a touchscreen keyboard?

That’s why the Apple-Amazon linkup is important. At least potentially important. 

Now I’m wondering if Hearst’s upcoming partner will be Apple.

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Yes, the PDF reader comes with the Kindle, but getting your PDFs (and other documents) onto the device is a nuisance. Two options: go through a user-unfriendly experience of e-mailing Amazon a file, where it’ll convert it to a Kindle-friendly format and e-mail it back to you. Then you’ve got to download it, plug the Kindle into your computer, and essentially use it as a USB drive to move the file over. The problem with that, as if there weren’t one already, is you need to have your Kindle with you whenever you’re moving documents.

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Option 2 is more fit for our cloud-computing age: upload your documents to a server and have them delivered to your Kindle. For that, there’s a price: 15 cents per document. To get the documents onto the Kindle you have to e-mail them to your special Amazon account, which will then push them over to the Kindle. Each time you do that, Amazon will charge you. (If you send really big files, it’ll cost you more than 15 cents.) It’s an annoyance for the user—but a fledgling business model for Amazon.

To Amazon, the 15 cents are almost pure profit. All the company needs to do is upload your file to a server, which the Kindle then pulls back down. The only cost for Amazon is running those servers, and they already have that infrastructure in place because of their cloud-computing business. So don’t think of it as 15 cents; think of it as a nearly 100 percent profit margin.

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CNNmoney.com Kindle DX Solidifies Amazon’s E-Book Lead But Rivals Loom. Covers the usual rivals, plus FirstPaper, which Hearst is investing in. FirstPaper is being dubbed a “stealth start-up.”

First time I’ve heard of FirstPaper. Time to track it with stealthy google news alerts.

I find it curious that after tracking Apple tablet rumors (and sometimes believing them) for three years, the latest rumors sound like they are being leaked by Apple. Why else would leading newspapers be printing stories about how Steve Jobs, now on medical leave, is hard at work on a tablet and will unveil it at Apple’s June developers conference? [Some rumors say the touchscreen will seven inches; the rumors from Taiwan a few months ago claimed 10 inches--Apple's touchscreens are manufactured in Taiwan.)

It's hard not to assume that Apple has been leaking to reassure buyers and investors that Jobs is on top of his game.

In the meantime, Amazon is announcing a bigger Kindle aimed at the textbook, newspaper and magazine market tomorrow (Wednesday, May 7.]  The New York Times

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, which will be part of bigger Kindle subscription offerings, broke the story last weekend. Engadget

claims the Kindle DX screen will be 9.7 inches. The current Kindle screen is six inches.

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Most Appleites believe an iTab will blow the e-reader competition out of the market because it will be:

1. Full-color (v. 16 shades of grey scale on the Kindle and Plastic Logic.)
2. Full Internet connection
3. Have a touchscreen so you can pinch illustrations and make them big enough to see (forget looking at a map in a Kindle book.)
4. Make watching movies and videos more enjoyable 
5. Offer apps to amuse, assist and delight

However, the game is just heating up. Size is an issue: Reading my Kindle 2 makes my right hand ache after awhile. An iTab that’s just a bigger iPhone will be heavy to hold. Plastic Logic offers the right weight to read and carry.

Color is an issue: Plastic Logic’s scientists at Cambridge in the UK are enroute to a plastic screen that is fast enough to download video in color. But, the estimated date is 2012, the same year that Phillips Electronics in the Netherlands anticipates e-paper in color–by the way, Phillips and Plastic Logic are working together. Not only would a Mac tablet be in color, but Fujitsu’s $1,000 color e-reader is now available in Japan. One assumes it would cost about the same as the other devices in the United States.

In the meantime, I continue to admire Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder who is pushing the adoption of e-readers. Grabbing the textbook market will lower the average age of people who use the readers. The latest survey I read shows that 70% of us are age 40 and up.)

And for those who wonder: I love sitting down with a new hardback book and no, I don’t want books to disappear.