Electronic Publishing

I have been researching some technologies for doing electronic publishing. It is possible to generate content that has the convenience of being distributed over the Internet, yet possessing the look and feel of paper. The best tool I have found so far is found at Desktop Author. I love the technology because you can make books or magazine or brochures. They can contain text, music, pictures, or even videos. And what the reader sees on the screen is book that opens and closes and the pages turn just like a real 3-D, real-world book! Unfortunately the software to create it is not free, but they do allow one to play around with it. Check out the website here.

I have included an example e-book in this post. It's really cool. Just download the plug-in when your computer prompts you. The E-Book is "Apology" by Plato. Thanks!

Jessie Said What?

By now, I'm sure everyone heard the words Jessie Jackson said about Barak Obama. I admit that I wish he had not made such a remark about another human being. Jessie is supposed to be a reverend of the Gospel of Christ. As a Christian, no one can excuse Jackson for what he said. It doesn't matter that he did not expect it to be heard by anyone else. He was wrong. Bottom line. It reflects badly on Christ and on Black people.

All that being said, I find it interesting that the story was released by Fox. I don't trust Fox because they are very shady in how they report and spin stories. They sat on Jessie Jackson's comment for a while - a couple of days. They waited until the right time to get the maximum impact - to make Jackson and Obama look as bad as possible. Check out the following clip:



I think that because Jackson has a child from cheating on his wife, he took Obama's chastisement of black men not caring for their families personally. He said that Obama talks down to black people. Funny how Fox has called Obama elitest isn't it.