Obsessive Email Checking, Meet the Classics

Got a bad case of the connection jitters? Having one of those days where you spend precious seconds every few minutes checking your email/blackberry/rss only to get nothing but invites from Nigerian royalty to partake in vast sums of latent wealth with only some money down?

Daily Lit offers a cure for those I-can’t-believe-I-just-spent-10-minutes-searching -for-wireless-for-this-crap days: free book bits delivered to you daily.

Eco-Iconic

A thought I have been having for a while now questions the potential of the local bricks and mortar bookstore to let our new found environmentalism help in their quest to survive. The thought revolves around the ecology of the book though not necessarily the ecology of reading.

Is Email Archaic?

It’s all about the data and Mary Meeker is considered by many of the digerati to be queen of the data of the internet. Her influential state-of-the-nation presentations look at data points that help us understand what has happened in the internet industry within the last few years, and the most likely places for substantial growth in the next phase of this industry.

In classic BookNet style here is a ranking of top websites 2005 vs. 2008…