John A Robb's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Love Books or Love Reading?

John A Robb — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:59:06 -0000

I think that is a stupid rule on airplanes!

Re: Love Books or Love Reading?

northernpenguin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:45:36 -0000

I am a big fan of reading on my Kindle 3. My wife has a Kindle 2. We take them everywhere and it is great being able to take a dozen books in one little device, and buy another book right on the spot without having to go to the bookstore or wait for the delivery guy. Downsides we have found- on the beach here nobody will steal your paperback while you go for a swim, and you can't use a Kindle during takeoff or landing on a flight.

Re: DRM Causes Revenue Leakage

John A Robb — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:22:57 -0000

I already buy the more expensive versions now when available. Not all music is available with the DRM removed.

Re: DRM Causes Revenue Leakage

northernpenguin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:20:03 -0000

Update your iTunes content to iTunes+ and it removes the DRM. Unfortunately they only do that for audio not video content.

Re: Google Plus Launch +5 days

John A Robb — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:44:05 -0000

Google Plus is more like Twitter than Facebook in that g+ allows asynchronous connections. I can follow someone without them following me just like on Twitter. Google Plus really needs an API so I can do what I do on Facebook which is hook my Twitter and Facebook news feed together. YouTube doesn't have native sharing with Google Plus, yet. Picasa does have native sharing so you can share to your various circles from within Picasa. I'm guessing other Google services will eventually work that way. It is early days on g+.

Re: Google Plus Launch +5 days

Boardroom Metrics — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:56:55 -0000

John you know I like Google. And social media. And I've struggled a bit with Facebook. I'm really struggling with Google+. I'm 5 days in and haven't posted anything yet! I'm not sure how. I'm not sure I need to?? I'd love to update people on my latest blog and youtube videos. Do I need to? Is my Buzz stream visible? Shouldn't it be. I'm determined to figure it out but it's not easy.

Re: Because I Am A Girl

swimmrguy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:53:14 -0000

Very interesting, John. I had just posted a link on Facebook to a similar site (http://www.girleffect.org/) with a very cool video "The Girl Effect." I had stumbled onto it by reading about "presentations that stick" by the Heath brothers.

I really enjoyed this post...

Re: School Caught Spying on Student’s Webcam

benatmediacurves1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:18:44 -0000

MediaCurves.com conducted a media study among viewers of a news clip featuring a story about a Pennsylvania school that monitored students at home through laptop webcams. Results found that an overwhelming majority of viewers (93%) reported that the school violated students’ rights to privacy. In addition, favorability for school issued laptops for home use declined from an average rating of 4.5 to 3.6 after viewing the video.
More in depth results can be seen at: http://www.mediacurves.com/Nat...
Thanks,
Ben