RELATED POST: January 25, 2014 Pencil 53 Product Review Original Post Starts Here I have been a collector of notebooks for decades. I love them. They’re portable, come in all shapes, thicknesses and sizes. Some have lines, others are blank for sketching and still others offer a grid. I have been a devoted user of […]
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The Printed Word: Why Books Will Survive the Digital Age
January 6, 2012 
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I’ve always been a book person. No, I mean a BOOK person. Collector, curator, lover of the dust jacket, size, shape and smell of the printed word on paper. I know how books are paginated, printed, bound, packed, shipped, and how to write a publishing contract. My first career was the general manager of an […]
Continue readingApples will Continue to Fall from Trees
August 24, 2011 3 Comments
It’s not so much that Steve Jobs has stepped down as the head of Apple that saddens me, it’s the reason why he is stepping down. Cancer invades so many people’s bodies and it’s a ruthless scourge. Regardless of which side of the technology war you are on, no one should be happy about the […]
Continue readingBlackberry Playbook Has Promise
April 21, 2011 0 Comments
The guys from Blackberry were in the office today showing off the new Playbook. Like most companies we carry Blackberry devices for corporate email, so we chat with our friends from RIM from time to time. I got to play on it for about 20 minutes. Here are my first impressions. It’s nicely sized and […]
Continue readingiPad Fits Nicely into a Social Lifestyle
June 12, 2010 0 Comments
It’s been about six weeks since I took possession of my iPad 3G. From the conversations I’ve had with people and the chatter read on the net, there appear to be two camps emerging. One group doesn’t see the value of investing in the iPad because it’s not a computer and it’s too big to […]
Continue readingMobile = Shift For Designers and Consumers
March 18, 2010 0 Comments
Humans have always been obsessed with what they need to “take along” whether it’s going to work or play. The advances of mobile phones and apps has led many of us to shift activities we once did exclusively on a desktop/laptop to our smartphone. This is naturally followed by an increase in the number of […]
Continue readingApple iPad Purchase Intent Poll – Are you Buying?
February 4, 2010 0 Comments
Now that we’ve had some time to let the idea of the iPad sink in, I can’t help but wonder where we are on the purchase intent scale. At first I was solid on getting one. But now that I have done some extensive thinking on how to leverage it for business (it’s not clear […]
Continue readingThe iPad Experience will be the Difference
January 28, 2010 4 Comments
The last thing the world needs right now is another blog post about the just announced iPad from Apple. But I feel compelled to put in my two cents, and here’s why. Newly announced Apple products are typically polarizing. The enchanted swoon and the disenchanted spew bile. It happened with the iPhone and it happened […]
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