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More ebook goodness . . . Chris Anderson's latest book, Free, is now available at Scribd - for free. You can read it here or, if you have a Kindle (or Kindle iPhone app), download it at Amazon.
On this day, 40 years ago, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral to put the first man on the moon.
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More book goodness this morning. This looks VERY COOL!
Savannah Breeze is a fun read with a great story in a familiar location. Problem is I'm having a tough time putting it down.
For decades, paper has been the primary (and sometimes only) means for record-keeping for organizations from all industries, in all shapes and sizes. Businesses have been built around hard copies and paper trails, and it can be difficult for some to imagine letting go of these tangible “security blankets” they’ve grown accustomed to. However, as more and more companies become savvy to available records management tools, and more sensitive to financial and environmental implications of paper-based processes, digital archiving is emerging as a reliable, effective means for storing and sharing documents over the long haul.
In fact, a January AIIM survey found that 90% of organizations are now using the PDF file format for long-term storage of scanned documents, while 89% are converting Microsoft Office files to PDF for sharing and archiving. Of course, paper is still in play in all organizations but, over the next 5 years, its use as a long-term storage format is expected to drop to 77%, with PDF rising to 93%. When commenting on the use of PDF as an archival format, Betsy Fanning, Director of Standards for AIIM, commented that “PDF/A is a good option for archiving electronic documents and is far better than archiving native files from any specific application.” (source: http://www.aiim.org/Research/PDF-Format-of-Choice-for-Document-Archiving.aspx)
A most interesting article - and something to keep an eye on.
Now you can include Google Maps in your Posterous posts. All you do is copy/paste the link to the map of your choice into your email message and Posterous does the rest. Let's try it with a map Evergreen Cemetery.
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Jill Hurst-Wahl provides a great review describing what's happening with the Paper of Record since Google's acquisition.
If there's a particular part of Google you'd like to keep up on - Google Books, Google Reader or Google Maps for example - the Google crew are now maintaining Twitter feeds on just about every topic imaginable.
Visit the directory on the Official Google Blog.
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way: the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led to a rise in public awareness that there is no runaway global warming. A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government to punish the citizens for living the good life that fossil fuels provide for us?
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A fascinating history.
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We used to dress my brother's GI Joe in our Barbie clothes and call him GI Josephine. It's amazing he grew up as sane as he did.