Tim O'Reilly lays it out to explain to Amazon why opening the Kindle is the right move.

Another strong vote for truly and *publicly* engaging your employees and your customers to gather new ideas and new information in order to strengthen a business. The importance of forming a community—of leading a tribe—cannot be underestimated. It is a responsibility.

I don't find this humorous, most especially because we have been asked these questions—and we only have four children. We wouldn't have it any other way.

Pretty neat tool that allows you to upload an image and then spits out a series of color palettes to you that are intended to complement the image.

A great article pushing Web designers to think about those who will be reading their content rather than always thinking about getting people to the next step or being flashy. How are you going to capture people and get them to read what you have to say?

Cory Doctorow (as always) has a few things to say about copyright, DRM, and other associated topics.

Releasing software grants you the ability to (a) receive feedback, and (b) receive money. Nothing is ever perfect. The problem is sometimes in delivering updates to fix things for people, but in general the point is well-taken.

The fact that any group is bothering to fight what might also be an accessibility option only further proves that publishers don't understand technology and are at heart frightened by it.

Another one switches from TypePad to WordPress. See the light, people.

A good question, but the main reason eBooks haven't taken off IMO is that the market is the most fractured one I've ever seen. Publishers need to pick a single, reflowable format and then stick with it. With good Unicode support.

Sometimes, the truth hurts.

Everyone read this.

I agree with this 100%. The largest flaw in the Kindle to date is its lack of support for the open EPUB standard and forcing lock-in with DRM'd books. The iTunes store has seen the light of so-called "social DRM". It's time for Bezos and company to step up to the plate.