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Dave Davison of Thoughts Illustrated sent me this multimedia map from Mapping the Edges – very interesting prototype. A format that I could easily see myself using for teaching or presentations if a “Blogger” type platform is developed to speed the creative process.

While I can draw well enough to create something to scan and I could, with some help, do the simple html coding and podcasting, the amount of hours invested in creating such a product would not be worth it to me unless I was running a seminar or workshop and needed something jazzy to help justify my consultancy fee. I want a tool that lets me create something like this in about an hour – then I’d use it.

I’m very intrigued by Amazon’s new Kindle device:

Dave Davison, IT venture capitalist and visualization maven, is very high on the potential of Kindle:

“Amazon “kindles” a new fire in electronic book reading. This 6 minute video shows how you will use this new portable, 10.3ounce, paperback size device. Download your reading library via a wireless connection just like calling on your cell phone. This device and the kindle service will revolutionize the book, magazine,newspaper and blog publishing media space.”

Count me as an avid reader and collector of books but if Amazon has truly solved the ” reading online” problem that causes me to print out anything longer than a handful of pages, with a vision-friendly, virtual-paper screen, then I’d be keen to own a Kindle. Just putting all of my magazines on it to reduce clutter or using it to read on the treadmill instead of lugging books in my gym bag, would be worth it. I would also speculate that, if you buy an absurdly large number of books annually, as I do, a kindl could allow you to purchase strategically; some in dead-tree version and some virtual form, and accumulate a considerable cost savings.

I would also expect that, as a platform, the uses for Kindle are only going to grow.

Cross-posted at Chicago Boyz

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Dave has thoughts on the ROA (“Return On Attention”) from microblogging on Twitter

DAVISON, 1st LORD OF SLIDESHARE

I think Dave Davison spends his time combing Slideshare for their conceptually-rich top 1 % the way most of us surf through youtube

SLIP, SLIDECASTING, AWAY!

From Dave Davison at Thoughts Illustrated:

“Here is a test presentation of a new slideshare feature I have been waiting for. Combine your slideshare presentations with an audio track and Voila! an audiographic presentation. Voice over PPT – Very effective for rehearsal or for cleaning up and redubbing a previous audio recording of your presentations. Also useful as soundbite creator for selected segments of a presentation. And, all nicely microformatted by Slideshare to support remixing. Could be a new style of podcasting.”

Here is the slidecast that Dave was writing about, “Differentiation and Engagement” by Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen ( kudos on the blog name, Garr !):