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How To Read The Link-Crazy Web Without Going Insane

Feel like your attention span operates at an inverse rate to your broadband speed? Here's how you can give the good stuff on the web the attention it deserves.READ»

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Four Strategies To De-Suck Your Commute

Raise your talking game, attain peace with your fellow man, and get some extra shut-eye--all before you reach the office. These four tips make transit time actually bearable.READ»

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Neil Gaiman, the BBC, and 124 Twitterers Make Fiction

Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman (one of our Most-Creative People) started a new fairy tale on Twitter--and the world wrote the rest of it. Users tweeted lines for the story, helping it unfold on BBC Audiobooks America's twitter ...READ»

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The Big, Stupid Problem with a Kindle that Talks

As we reported yesterday, the new Amazon [AMZN] Kindle can read to you. Apparently, this is a problem. The Authors' Guild says that the Kindle's text-to-speech feature could infringe upon book copyrights. Its probably afraid that a ...READ»

KINDLE 2   |  Comment

Authors Guild Says Kindle 2's Text-to-Speech Violates Copyright

One of the most interesting new features in Amazon's Kindle 2 e-reader is the text-to-speech function built into the device. It's a primitive bed-time story reader, and while it won't match, say, HAL 9000 for elegance in ...READ»