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Re: Writing an Ebook vs Physical Book : Pros and Cons – Episode #069

Andrew Mowat — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:44:21 -0000

Thanks Dale, a great post.
What thoughts around strategy do you have around physical vs ebook publishing? I am about to publish a physical book (The Success Zone), and many spin off books will 'satellite' this introductory book. Should they be eBooks or both? Should eBooks be on your own web site, on distribution sites or both?

Keep up the great work!

Best,
Andrew

Re: TweetDeck Desktop vs Seesmic Desktop: REMATCH!

Andrew Mowat — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:00:56 -0000

I'm not sure if this is the case with Seesmic Desktop 0.3rc1 (currently testing), but I have noticed with previous versions that after some time of uptime, the app seems to hog the processors on my MacBook, to the point that I have to quit the program. This was previously preventing me using this program in preference to TweetDeck. Not that I'm technically minded, but would this have been a memory leak? Hopefully this has been addressed ...

Thanks for a great post!

Regards,
Andrew

Re: Audio Books - Are you “Reading” them?

Andrew Mowat — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:30:44 -0000

Ah but Ed, that is your individual preference. The experience for you is quite specific, and absolutely valid. For me, I will integrate much more of the incoming information if it is presented as audio. Just as valid.

The whole discussion (not just your point, no offence intended) should not be about which method should work, or is indeed best... its actually about knowing your own preferred style and accepting that others will be different.

Re: Audio Books - Are you “Reading” them?

Andrew Mowat — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:25:54 -0000

The key question is around the degree to which you are integrating the information. Visual information is useless if you integrate it far less than audio input. Just as every brain is different (beyond question now), the way we prefer information to be presented also is individual. People are rarely just auditory (tell me) or visual (show me) or kinaesthetic (let me do it), but indeed a mix of them all.

As leaders, colleagues and teachers, we need to both understand our own learning styles and accept that others around us will be different. To judge or dismiss another's 'channel preference', or worse to force others to comply with our own preferred channel triggers all sorts of things, but little learning or integration.

A good run down on how we best integrate information and learn is at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...