Archive for April, 2007
Switched-On Book
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Is the Sony Reader the library of the future?
by David Skinner
Advertisements for the Sony Reader, a hand-held device for perusing e-books, show pretty, natural settings where fans of literature might go and read away to their brain’s content. The marketers of portable technology have long suggested a kind of objective correlative between the pleasure one takes in their products and the places they are used. So marking up spreadsheets on your laptop while reclining on a tropical beach is much more like reclining on a tropical beach than it is like marking up spreadsheets.
Still, the Reader’s shortcomings prove that whatever stage of development it represents, it is not to literature what the iPod is to music. Pages can be marked to help you find your way back to a passage, and the “continue reading” function returns you to the page reached before the device was last turned off. But pages cannot be marked with marginalia, a common enough practice with books that one hopes–or perhaps the verb “to dream” would be better here–that Sony is trying to figure how to make something like it possible with the Reader.
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GTD+R
Kenji OHTA runs a blog called GTD+R, based on GTD (Getting Things Done), the popular action management method as applied to Rhodia notepads.
A beginner’s guide to freelancing
Phil Gyford has a checklist on making the big switch from working for someone to working for yourself.
Dan Kennedy Solves your problems with paper
From: Dana Christiansen
To: Dan Kennedy (Paper Expert)
Subject: My Problem with Paper
Dear Dan:
I love Rhodia notepads. They come in perfect sizes for phone messages, grocery lists, and meeting notes. They have a bright orange cover. They make me feel exceptional, equipped with the finest tool for the job at hand. So what’s the problem? Simply this: I love my Rhodia pads so much that I covet my pads, I hoard them. I think I’m more in love with the idea of Rhodia pads than their actual use. So I hardly ever actually use what I truly love.
Can you help?
- Dana
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Dana, I love the fact that you’ve included your phone number in your e-mail to me. I don’t think you realize how close you are, right now, to me calling your house at 3:10 a.m. so that somebody there can talk me down after watching this HBO thing. Actually, let’s just assume I’ll wind wind up calling you in the next hour, and we’ll address your problem when I call. Also, I am stunned to see that in their catalog, Rhodia describes their line of notepads in terms that, in a chilling coincidence, would also serve as a fitting summary of my career thus far: “A favorite with artists, designers, and even scientists, this little square has something of a cult following.”
All right, I’ll give you a ring when I’m done going through these other letters.
- Dan
Rhodia at Lovemarks
- What can I say? For years I read about Rhodia before I ordered my first pads. After all paper is just…paper. And I had managed to become a Medical Doctor without Rhodia. But I was wrong. I was totally knocked by the quality, the appearance and the style. Now I have a lot of Rhodia pads in different sizes and with different rulings. I always have the orange pads with me all the time, both in my professional life and private. Rhodia and Clairefontaine vellum paper are the only types of paper that is 100% suitable for my wet fountain pens. Try Rhodia! After that you will never ever use any other kind of writing paper. I promise…
- Lennart, Sweden – 16 April 2007
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Getting Things Done + Rhodia
Kenji OHTA runs a blog called GTD+R, based on GTD (Getting Things Done), the popular action management method as applied to Rhodia notepads. He walks us thru his Card Game metaphor; detailed instructions on how to make task lists that’s as easy as it gets: Write down the task on paper, prepare the field to sort them easily, slip into pocket, and get the things done anytime, anywhere.
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I am a software engineer. I always need to thrash out the tasks in my work. I list up the operation as task, check it it’s done or not, and know the progress for the project. The thrashing out the tasks is the most important factor for that the project goes well.
GTD declare the process how to act with the complete details. “Collecting” -> “Handling” -> “Arrangement” -> “Review” -> “Exception” It is easy way to clear up the work flow for anybody. And all you need is paper and pencil.
By writing down the tasks on the RHODIA, it is easy to carry, move, and sort it. I made new way by mixing GTD and managing the tasks with RHODIA.
I call it “GTD + R”.
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Rhodia notepads at The Brilliance
Talk about the beauty of utility. There’s that select few number of products that straddle that line of totally functional and by default are great to look at. Scientists and designers alike are down with Rhodia notepads. Why? Probably because they designed their format and stuck with it.
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The Brilliance is a unique taste-making site that draws inspiration from the interests, thoughts, likes, dislikes, and ideas of its creators. The posts on the site are as varied as the individual styles and personalities of the three writers – everything from phone technology to islands and travel destinations, from art and design to a new hot restaurant, from cars and jets to tattoos, from Jay-Z to Minor Threat.
Rhodia is French for posh-paper
According to Style Dash, that is:
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“Cult-following” usually applies to the devoted fans of movies, rock bands and couture clothing, not notepads. But if there was ever a notepad out there that had something that could be equated to a cult-following, it would be for Rhodia notepads. The hip-set of scientists (yes, there are hip scientists out there, somewhere, I think….), architects, designers, even writers, have all ditched the yellow legal pad in favor of these handy functional workbooks. Produced in France, the velum-sheeted, graph paper pads have a distinctive, bright orange cover, which can easily be spotted from a distance — think of it as “flare orange” for cool. With 80 sheets of micro-perforated paper, you’ll have plenty of room for your schematics (if you’re a scientist) or for your grocery lists (if you’re like the rest of us).
Anne Metz reports for Style Dash
ClaireFontaine at Campus Market Expo 2007
This poster was produced in France and adapted for use in the US market. Click on image to enlarge
Produced by the National Association of College Stores, the Campus Market Expo (CAMEX) is the higher education retailing industry’s largest trade show and educational event.
CAMEX has a long history of being the collegiate retailing industry’s meeting place. For more than 80 years, volunteers and staff of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) have worked together to create and grow this premier industry event.
Today CAMEX is the industry’s largest trade show and educational event attracting attendees from more than 1,100 college stores and more than 700 exhibiting companies.
From apparel to pencils, candy to temporary tattoos, the CAMEX trade show features items in more than 30 product categories targeted to the college student consumer. A lot of business is conducted during the three-day show: 90% of CAMEX 2006 attendees took advantage of vendors’ trade show specials.
CAMEX 2007 took place on March 23 to 27 in Orlando, Florida.
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