Academy Awards 2015: Top 10 Works in WorldCat By Oscar Nominees in Five Categories (InfoDocket)
More interesting (and fun) “WorldCat Mining” from the team at OCLC Research in a new “What in the WorldCat” post.
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Have We Figured Out What We Want in a Smartwatch Yet? (GigaOM)
Next month will be the one-year anniversary of Google’s smartwatch platform introduction. And the month after that will see the Apple Watch ship to its first buyers.
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My Thoughts on Amazon Debate (Joe Konrath)
According to those voting in the audience, my side (Amazon is for readers) lost 43% to 50%. According to the online poll, we won by an overwhelming majority, 72% to 28%.
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Being an Author is Sexy but Publishing is Not (GoodeReader)
A YouGov poll that has just been released rates being an author the most desirable job in Britain – with 60% of people saying they’d like to do it for a living.
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Means (and others)
For several years before the iPhone, I tried cell phone after cell phone trying to find one with features like those the iPhone brought with it. When it came out, I knew I wanted one. Not so with these smartwatches. They seem to be a solution in search of a problem.
Were I fitness buff, I’d have trouble seeing what they offer that $30-and-up sport phones don’t offer for a fraction of the price. Even that’s a stretch. With a little practice, you can measure your pulse rate in a few seconds the old fashioned way—using your wrist.
If I had a chronic medical condition like diabetes, I’d steer clear of a smart watch that might make me obsess over the constantly changing numbers on a dial. I’d rather have that data collected quietly by a smartphone and an alert sounded if it gets out of bounds.