From the monthly archives:

January 2007

Books on Your iPod and More

January 4, 2007

in iPods

The cellphone novels of Japan are a sort of grassroots movement, created on cellphones, by cellphone users for other cellphone users. But there’s a lot of other activity happening out there with other “think small” text projects, nearly all happening outside the library world. [click to continue…]

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Cellphone novels are a hot trend in Japan, where mostly young authors are creating and distributing stories using their cellphones and designed to be read on cellphones. At least one novel has sold more than a million copies, and the cellphone portal Magic iLand has started a free library where users can download the free copies of the novels.
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Top Health Searches

January 2, 2007

in Search Engines

ZDNet’s IT Facts blog often has some interesting trend information. One interesting thing they just posted is the top health-related searches on prescription drug-related sites.
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The Kosmix health search engine has been around for about a year, and I’d be interested to hear your opinions of it. You enter your search term and get back clustered results in a very organized, structured way.
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