Give me books, twice. The point of PDF books isn't to throw away the paper ones, it's to get them delivered faster. [Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times]

Home costs are called a drag on state growth. High home prices are limiting the Boston area's ability to regain the jobs lost in the 2001 recession and sustain economic growth, according to two new studies being released today during a conference at Boston's Federal Reserve Bank. [Boston Globe -- Front Page]

DEVONthink: An appreciation of smart groups�. Using Smart Groups I’ve recently gotten way back into DEVONthink as a means to capture, wrangle, and analyze all the reference material in my world. If you’re new to this amazing application — and at the risk of far exceeding my understanding of both the human brain and this [...]

Getting To Done: De-stress yourself. by Keith Robinson If you're reading this chances are you've got some interest in making your life less stressed. I know it's a big deal for me. I'm a naturally stressed-out person and I'm trying more and more to keep my stress-level low. Lately it's been pretty high, and while [...]

User Interfaces for Physical Spaces. MAYA Design and the IA Institute are hosting a day long workshop User Interfaces for Physical Spaces on Monday, December 12 in Pittsburgh. The workshop will showcase MAYA's work redesigning the physical and information space of the Carnegie Library…if you haven't had the chance to look at MAYA's slides from [...]

Recordings from the IA Summit Redux in Washington, DC. This Saturday the DC-IA group organized an IA Summit Redux where many summit sessions were reviewed and discussed. You may download complete audio recordings of the discussions (on tagging, deliverables, theory and web 2.0) from livlab.com. Many thanks to Dan Brown and the DC area IAs [...]

Diebold Doesn't Get It. This quote sums up nicely why Diebold should not be trusted to secure election machines: David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems [...]

The politics of presentation software. Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can't yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio]

Google celebrates the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Robert Quattlebaum: XMPP Client Daemon. There are many Jabber clients out there for just about every platform imaginable. This is often cited as one of the strengths of Jabber, but it does have serious drawbacks; namely end-user confusion. I'm starting to think that the approach that nearly all of these programs take is incorrect. . [...]