News

“What’s the Best Amazon Prime Alternative?â€Â by Matt Burns at TechCrunch – March 13, 2014

Amazon Prime information at Amazon.com

No word on a price increase for Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service!

Tech Tip

Kindle Paperwhite 1st generation software update to version 5.4.4

Kindle Paperwhite 2nd generation software update to version 5.4.3

Interviews and Links from SXSW, with times noted when they appear on the podcast

1:35    My Google Glass audio excerpt from Austin Kleon’s presentation, “Show Your Work!â€Â on Friday, March 7, 2014.

10:11   Introduction to “Emoji & Texting: Is Human Language Extinct?â€Â presented by Ben Zimmer and Sam Huston

11:40   Bryan Person, director of customer success at Lithium Technologies

13:07   Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the language columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

16:58   Ed Castillo, chief strategy officer at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY : “Why Reading is Flawed, Dying Technologyâ€

25:40   Peter Tighe, my cousin and host in Austin, on reading in braille versus listening to books

31:16   Adam Carolla, author of In Fifty Years We’ll All be Chicks ($7.99 on Kindle), Not Taco Bell Material ($7.63 on Kindle) and (available for $13.59 Kindle preorder with delivery on May 13, 2014) President Me: The America That’s in My Head

     Adam Carolla’s Save Our Podcasts Legal Defense Fund at FundAnything

35:16   Luke Littleboy, marketing manager for Screenburn in London

37:40   James Montgomery, director of digital & technology, BBC Global News Ltd

           Upworthy, a social aggregation site

Content

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon – $6.14 on Kindle

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon – $7.18 on Kindle

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