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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Getting Your Reading On (Introduction)
Reading is an important part of our lives. It helps us learn new things, increase our vocabulary, and can even make us smarter in ways we can begin to imagine. Technology has only helped us read more with online magazines, newspapers offering online versions of their stories, even all the blogs out there. There really is not a moment in this day and age where we do not read something off a page, paper, or screen. People are still buying books, and some companies are working to change the way we read. No longer do you need to run out and purchase a thick, heavy hardback when a new book comes out. Instead, you can listen to an audiobook on your iPod, or buy the eBook to read on your eBook Reader. There are even ways to read books via email. It is crazy how much stuff is out there to help us read more. Some will argue that people are not reading anymore, and this is just not the case. Libraries still check out books, bookstores are still in business, and bestsellers lists are filled with titles that are purchased regularly.
I personally have recently picked up reading again. I’m currently listening to an audiobook in my car while driving, reading an eBook on my BlackBerry, reading a book via DailyLit.com, and I’m reading a physical book when I’m at home. This has inspired me to write a series of post centered around reading. Over the next week few days or so, we will take a look at things like digital audiobooks, eBooks (and eBook readers), ways to read books via email and RSS, and we will even look at a couple of social networking sites that are centered around reading. There is a lot out there in technology when it comes to reading and expanding one’s mind. Join me as we take a look at some of that technology.
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Why I Blog
Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger has put a survey up on his website today asking “Why Do You Blog?” and while I answered “For Business” it made me think about why I blog. I think that if you are going to blog you need a reason and as I told me daughter today, “Because is not a reason” so why is it that I blog? I’m sure there are several readers that have been reading this site long enough to know that there has been more than one “format” change since this blog started around 19 months ago. The blog started out as commentary, reviews, and general thoughts from yours truly but it eventually evolved into Technology instruction, lyric interpretations, and even my coming up as a fresh new consultant as I got my new day job. In October some serious life events occurred that caused me to take a break from blogging and re-evaluate. While I still enjoy blogging, I’m not so hung up on having 5-6 posts a week. One, it was killing me and two, it was taking time away from things that were more important.
The reason I blog, is now more about commentating on the world around me. Since technology is my business (both on and off my day job), it stands to reason that I have a lot to say on the subject. I use my blog to commentate on what I read and see. Hopefully there are people that agree that read my blog and will either use something I said to further their point of view with someone or just have a link to someone that agrees with them. I know there are people that disagree and that is okay too. People that disagree offer insight and can teach me about other viewpoints that are not my own. But there is another reason for my blogging, and that reason revolves around the radio show that I co-host, Power of Information. I use this blog as a way to supplement some of the things we talk about on the radio show. We have 45-ish minutes to talk about a lot of stuff and not everything gets covered like I would want it to. So, I blog to help supplement the stories when those kinds of things happen, and it’s all searchable via the PowerSearch on the Power of Information website (http://www.powerofinformation.net/).
Head on over to ProBlogger and tell them why you blog. I’m interested to see just what the results will be. The number one spot right now is held by the “For Money” crowd. Is everyone really in it just for the money? What about community? What about the sharing of knowledge? What about the massive internet conversation? Money might make the world go round, but there is only so much of it.