Rex ? ever think about this? can you blog on this one day, pro or con?

danny in Tawian
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com

Danny Bloom says he's on a crusade to find a new word for “reading”
on “computer screens and Kindle and Nook screens” — other than
“reading”, that is! — and so far he's met nothing but opposition and
roadblocks along the way.

But that has not stopped the lone blogger in Taiwan from his quixotic
quest. He says he's pushing forward with his public crusade, step by
step, despite the many setbacks, adding: “Sometimes I feel this is
like pushing a heavy stone up a steep hill, only to have it roll back
a few feet every time we advance a few inches.”

“Very few people in the education and technology fields agree with me
on this novel idea, but I remain determined,” Bloom says. “In fact, a
few experts and forecasters around the country have told me privately
that this crusade is worth it, if only to start a national discussion
on the future of reading and the future of E-readers.”

Reading on screens is a whole new ballgame, Bloom contends, and he
believes the culture needs a new word for this new human activity. “It
is more than just reading,” he says. “On a screen, you scroll, you
link, you see photos and videos, you use a mouse or buttons on a
Kindle, and then of course, you read. This is uber-reading. This is
reading-plus-one. So I feel we need a new word for this, although I
have no idea what that word will be in the end, because as many people
have told me in the past year, new words happen organically and
naturally, when the time is right, and when the need becomes more than
apparent. So this is all just to jumpstart the discussion.”

Bloom, a 1971 graduate of Tufts in Boston, is in his 60s now, and says
he reads on both paper surfaces and screens every day, and he loves
both. One is not a priori better or worse than the other, just
different, he adds, echoing the words of futurist Paul Saffo in San
Francisco, who told him that in a recent email.

Some people online have suggested such words as “screening” and
“screading”, Bloom says, adding: “Who knows which words we will adopt
for this or when? I have no idea. I just like thinking about it now,
and when the time is right, the new words or terms will come. One
blogger told me we might even need two words for this, one for reading
on computer screens, which are backlit, and another for reading on
e-readers like the Kindle or the Nook, which use E-Ink for the
screens.

Bloom said he's open to all suggestions for the new words, and says
he's patient while at the same time steadfast and committed to this
seeminly impossible crusade. “Patience is my middle name,” he says,
with a chuckle.

Suggestions for this lone name-crusader in Taiwan? All ideas are
welcome, Bloom says, who says readers may send in their nominations to
him at danbloom@gmail.com on his email connection.

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Rex ? ever think about this? can you blog on this one day, pro or con?

danny in Tawian
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com

Danny Bloom says he's on a crusade to find a new word for “reading”
on “computer screens and Kindle and Nook screens” — other than
“reading”, that is! — and so far he's met nothing but opposition and
roadblocks along the way.

But that has not stopped the lone blogger in Taiwan from his quixotic
quest. He says he's pushing forward with his public crusade, step by
step, despite the many setbacks, adding: “Sometimes I feel this is
like pushing a heavy stone up a steep hill, only to have it roll back
a few feet every time we advance a few inches.”

“Very few people in the education and technology fields agree with me
on this novel idea, but I remain determined,” Bloom says. “In fact, a
few experts and forecasters around the country have told me privately
that this crusade is worth it, if only to start a national discussion
on the future of reading and the future of E-readers.”

Reading on screens is a whole new ballgame, Bloom contends, and he
believes the culture needs a new word for this new human activity. “It
is more than just reading,” he says. “On a screen, you scroll, you
link, you see photos and videos, you use a mouse or buttons on a
Kindle, and then of course, you read. This is uber-reading. This is
reading-plus-one. So I feel we need a new word for this, although I
have no idea what that word will be in the end, because as many people
have told me in the past year, new words happen organically and
naturally, when the time is right, and when the need becomes more than
apparent. So this is all just to jumpstart the discussion.”

Bloom, a 1971 graduate of Tufts in Boston, is in his 60s now, and says
he reads on both paper surfaces and screens every day, and he loves
both. One is not a priori better or worse than the other, just
different, he adds, echoing the words of futurist Paul Saffo in San
Francisco, who told him that in a recent email.

Some people online have suggested such words as “screening” and
“screading”, Bloom says, adding: “Who knows which words we will adopt
for this or when? I have no idea. I just like thinking about it now,
and when the time is right, the new words or terms will come. One
blogger told me we might even need two words for this, one for reading
on computer screens, which are backlit, and another for reading on
e-readers like the Kindle or the Nook, which use E-Ink for the
screens.

Bloom said he's open to all suggestions for the new words, and says
he's patient while at the same time steadfast and committed to this
seeminly impossible crusade. “Patience is my middle name,” he says,
with a chuckle.

Suggestions for this lone name-crusader in Taiwan? All ideas are
welcome, Bloom says, who says readers may send in their nominations to
him at danbloom@gmail.com on his email connection.

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I agree, right now – it's very gimmicky, and probably expensive. (In other words, there's a reason that Mini did it, and not another auto company.) However, with open source tools like Blender (a 3D modeling program), and some of the new open source flash rendering systems like Papervision 3D (which is only a game engine at the present, but can be modified), we could see experiences like this become cheaper at a rapid rate.