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Despite my fixation on gadgets, especially new gadgets and anything from Apple, I love print. I will subscribe to a new quarterly magazine called Dispatches, which the Washington Post wrote about this week. Read more here:
I’m a dinosaur: I still love print

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I was in Munich this week for the DLD conference and one of the first things I did was to head straight for the Gmund store on the Prannerstrasse next to the Bayerischer Hof hotel. Gmund is a Bavarian paper making firm that dates back to 1829. It is named after Gmund am Tegernsee, the [...]

The Internet has not killed print and certainly has not dampened the enthusiasm of readers for good old paper-based books. Forty-five million books were sold in the Netherlands in 2007, accounting for 568 million Euros (average: 12.60 EUR per book). The number of books sold in 2007 is the highest ever and shows [...]

It’s chic to dump on Millennials, that generation of US-based humans born between 1980 and 1995. 60 Minutes, a US television news program, and a book called Generation Me make them sound like fragile little crybabies who crumble at the thought of every challenge. I finished reading Generation Me this week and think that the [...]

If you love reading, you will appreciate the speech that Doris Lessing gave on December 8 when she accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is printed in The Guardian, my favorite newspaper:
Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa [...]

If you are a pajama entrepreneur like me, you don’t have the luxury of hiring an IT manager for the office, especially if you have a home office. That means YOU are the person in charge of setting up and maintaining your Wi-Fi network, securing it, etc. So, I am pleased to see that Glenn [...]

Did you ever think that anyone writing a food blog could get published and end up on the Today Show? Clotilde Dusoulier, the woman behind the blog Chocolate and Zucchini, the best food blog in the world (in my opinion) recently published her first book and is now on a book tour in the US [...]