Blogging the Civil War

by Believe Collective

Disunion
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New from The New York Times: follow the Civil War as it unfolded, 150 years later. Great idea for a weblog.

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The first two have been really fun to read. It will be interesting reading what was happening 150 years ago each week.

Will Lincoln Prevail? is fascinating to read. I will be following all of these.

Why buy a hard drive?

Amazon S3 Price Reduction
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A great service gets even better. Maybe the greatest success of the “cloud” computing era.

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If you need a lot of storage. about $750 fro 50 TB. You’ll need lots of videos or maybe just some human sequencing data.

Ars Technica for the iPad

Introducing the Ars Technica Reader for iPad
[Via Ars Technica]

We’re pleased to announce the official availability of the Ars Technica Reader for iPad, made possible in partnership with IBM. We thank IBM for supporting the Reader for iPad, and we hope you will enjoy version 1.0. In the rest of this column, we’ll tell you about the app, explain some choices we made, and ask you to help spread the Ars goodness.

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Love Ars Technica. It is technical enough to satisfy me while staying focussed on nerd delights like The Walking Dead.

The iPad reader is too bad for a Version 1.0. It is a little slow to scroll and rapid ‘flipping’ with your finger does not always get recognized.

But it is easy to get to a lot of material and it will download much of it to read later. Now if it would also load the comments as these are sometimes great places for more information.