Apple’s successes in the sciences is not just about the hardware. Mac OS X has played a large role converting scientists and will continue to do so. Kerr is a featured speaker at the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference & Expo where she will talk about the benefits of Mac OS X Tiger. Complete article here.

Stanislaw Lem, the internationally renowned science fiction writer, notorious among American fans for bashing the genre as “a hopeless case, with exceptions,” has been shortlisted for the first International Booker Prize for literature.

Jay Fitzgerald quotes me on Jeremey Allaire’s intriguing new idea for video delivery over the Internet. Update:More on Brightcove from Om Malik with commentary….

I’ve always thought not enough attention was paid to Apple’s potential in the Server market: Yet despite significant efforts by Windows suppliers, Apple still remains a dominant player in vertical market segments such as publishing and digital media. And with the growing popularity of its low-cost Xserve Unix servers, Apple has an opportunity to compete… Continue reading

Agent/author Richard Curtis has a superb overview on the publishing industry: Had the plethora of mergers and acquisitions that shrank the number of publishers to a handful of behemoths achieved a literary renaissance, perhaps we could rationalize that it was worth all the turmoil. But it did not. After each consolidation the patient continued to… Continue reading