it wouldn't be easy for me to describe david rothman, considering how badly he's treated me over the years -- but hey, i've managed to keep my sense of humor! -- so i'll just refer you to his blog, which you can find here:
it's probably best if you read it yourself, and come to your own conclusions, rather than rely on mine, but since you asked, the following is what i will tell you... david works hard on his blog, and it is an excellent source of news from the world of electronic-books, widely defined -- how's that for a kind review from someone he detests? -- but he has to be one of the world's biggest suckers for vapor (hardware and software). he is also one of the "ringleaders" for openreader.com, which he is absolutely convinced will be "the one format to rule them all", so he has been hyping it for _years_, while spewing venom against perceived challengers (which range from little old me all the way up to sony and microsoft and adobe). he sometimes has a very _tenuous_ hold on reality -- he wants adobe to abandon .pdf in favor of _his_ format, to give you an idea -- yet manages to hoodwink a whole lot of people who _should_ be a lot smarter than that. oh, and he'll probably be along here any minute to throw mud on me, because that's what he likes to do to people like me, who have the courage to shake our heads at his stupidities... not that he contributes to the conversation here otherwise -- he strongly prefers to stay on his blog where he is "the expert" -- so i always enjoy when he appears here or anywhere else where i can actually go against him head to head, post to post, because he isn't capable of arguing his way out of a paper-bag, and has to resort to some very low-level ad hominem tactics. anyway, as the _world-leader_ in e-book hype, it made me smile to hear _him_ advise people to take someone's else's hype with a grain of salt. indeed, it was likely my widest smile of the week. besides, with dotreader (the first viewer-program that will be able to actual _use_ his precious format) slipping its dates on a regular basis -- which, as a programmer, i understand, totally, i've slipped a bunch of delivery dates myself, yes sir -- i would expect david to be a bit more forgiving when others (like sony with their hardware and irex with their hardware) find themselves behind on their promises... anyway, more than you wanted to know, i'm sure, and -- like i said -- david will be along any minute now with his bucket of mud, so the fun has just begun, but hey, you asked! ;+) -bowerbird
Bowerbird wrote:
[out of the blue, a whole bucketful of mud dumped on David Rothman -- snipped...]
anyway, more than you wanted to know, i'm sure, and -- like i said -- david will be along any minute now with his bucket of mud, so the fun has just begun, but hey, you asked! ;+)
Am I the only one to see who is really slinging the mud here? Jon
Jon Noring writes:
Bowerbird wrote:
[out of the blue, a whole bucketful of mud dumped on David Rothman -- snipped...]
anyway, more than you wanted to know, i'm sure, and -- like i said -- david will be along any minute now with his bucket of mud, so the fun has just begun, but hey, you asked! ;+)
Am I the only one to see who is really slinging the mud here?
Perhaps, but as one of the other ringleaders of the OpenReader cabal I hardly think you're unbiased, Jon.
On 9/29/06, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
it wouldn't be easy for me to describe david rothman, considering how badly he's treated me over the years -- but hey, i've managed to keep my sense of humor! -- so i'll just refer you to his blog, which you can find here:
it's probably best if you read it yourself, and come to your own conclusions, rather than rely on mine, but since you asked, the following is what i will tell you...
david works hard on his blog, and it is an excellent source of news from the world of electronic-books, widely defined -- how's that for a kind review from someone he detests? -- but he has to be one of the world's biggest suckers for vapor (hardware and software). he is also one of the "ringleaders" for openreader.com, which he is absolutely convinced will be "the one format to rule them all", so he has been hyping it for _years_, while spewing venom against perceived challengers (which range from little old me all the way up to sony and microsoft and adobe). he sometimes has a very _tenuous_ hold on reality -- he wants adobe to abandon .pdf in favor of _his_ format, to give you an idea -- yet manages to hoodwink a whole lot of people who _should_ be a lot smarter than that.
oh, and he'll probably be along here any minute to throw mud on me, because that's what he likes to do to people like me, who have the courage to shake our heads at his stupidities...
not that he contributes to the conversation here otherwise -- he strongly prefers to stay on his blog where he is "the expert" -- so i always enjoy when he appears here or anywhere else where i can actually go against him head to head, post to post, because he isn't capable of arguing his way out of a paper-bag, and has to resort to some very low-level ad hominem tactics.
anyway, as the _world-leader_ in e-book hype, it made me smile to hear _him_ advise people to take someone's else's hype with a grain of salt. indeed, it was likely my widest smile of the week.
besides, with dotreader (the first viewer-program that will be able to actual _use_ his precious format) slipping its dates on a regular basis -- which, as a programmer, i understand, totally, i've slipped a bunch of delivery dates myself, yes sir -- i would expect david to be a bit more forgiving when others (like sony with their hardware and irex with their hardware) find themselves behind on their promises...
anyway, more than you wanted to know, i'm sure, and -- like i said -- david will be along any minute now with his bucket of mud, so the fun has just begun, but hey, you asked! ;+)
Ah thank you for that recap. -- Onorio
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Bowerbird＠aol.com -
Bruce Albrecht -
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Onorio Catenacci