The Kindle Chronicles

Co-authors of "COVID-19 and Book Publishing"

Interview starts at 8:35 and ends at 50:03

Links

"Connecticut Investigating Amazon's E-Book Business" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Dana Mattioli at The Wall Street Journal - January 13, 2021

"When Tech Antitrust Failed: How did a case meant to lower prices instead possibly lead to higher prices?" by Shira Ovide at The New York Times - January 15, 2021

COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021 by Thad McIlroy, Cliff Guren, and Steve Sieck available for free download here

Panorama Project

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

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Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT

Interview starts at 3:53 and ends at 42:11

Links

Greg Epstein's bio page at Harvard and MIT

Greg's Twitter account

The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and MIT - Click Here to donate

"My name is Greg, and I'm addicted to tech" by Greg M. Epstein at The Boston Globe - January 1, 2021

"In Memory of Tom Ferrick: America's First Atheist Chaplain Died" by Greg M. Epstein at The Huffington Post - January 22, 2014

New York Times obit of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes - March 1, 2011

Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg Epstein

My interview with Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis, Indiana - December 25, 2020

Smart Recovery

Alcoholics Anonymous

Light Phone, reMarkable tablet

Amazon Halo

Next Week's Guests

Thad McIlroy and Cliff Guren, co-authors (with Steve Sieck) of COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, available for free download here.

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.

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Author of The Sanibel Island Lighthouse

Interview starts at 10:11 and ends at 50:26

Links

Typora.io

Kindle software update to 5.13.4

The Sanibel Island Lighthouse: A Specialized History of Sanibel Island, Florida 1513-2014 by Charles LeBuff, available at Smashwords

Sanybel Light: A Historical Autobiography by Charles LeBuff, available as a Kindle Unlimited selection at Amazon.com

Other books by Charles LeBuff available at Amazon

J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel, Florida

Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling (Wikipedia)

"Ding" Darling Wildlife Society

YouTube videos featuring Charles LeBuff

Sanibel Historical Museum and Village

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

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Patricia and Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of

New Covenant Church

Links

Christmas greeting from Pastor Bryan and Patricia Hudson

About New Covenant Church

Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person's Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society by Bryan Hudson

Bryan's production company, Vision Communications

Bryan Hudson's drone video of the Sanibel Island lighthouse

Ecamm Live

Trust by Pete Buttigieg

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show. (Thanks to David Enzel for letting me know about this.)

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Author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry

Links

Articles and podcasts about the future by Joanna Penn: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/future/

"9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors and The Publishing Industry" - The Creative Penn podcast - July 1, 2019

GPT-3 (Wikipedia)

1 the Road by Ross Goodwin (Hardcover)

Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell - Available for pre-order in the US, with delivery January 4, 2021

The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (written with a number of AI tools, including GPT-2, available via Kindle Unlimited)

The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller

Futurebook conference and Wired Live conference

Stripe and PayPal

The EU Digital Services Act

Joanna (JF) Penn's Payhip store for direct purchases of her books

BookFunnel

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality headset

"Google wants to offer audio versions of more books using auto-generated narrators" by Abner Li at 9to9Google - December 3, 2020

Next Week's Guest

Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, and author of Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person's Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show. (Thanks to David Enzel for letting me know about this.)

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Author of the Sanibel Island Mysteries series

Interview begins at 16:20 and ends at 45:54

Links

"Google is going to convert ebooks to audiobooks" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - December 8, 2020

"Tattered Cover sold to local investment group, making it the U.S.'s largest black-owned bookstore" by John Wenzel at The Denver Post - December 9, 2020

Fintie Folio Case for Kindle Oasis at Amazon.com

"Amazon Kindle for iOS can now add a widget to the homescreen" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - November 11, 2020

Jennifer Schiff's author page at Amazon

Jennifer's books at Shovel & Pail Press

MacIntosh Books + Paper, Sanibel FL

The Sanibel Sunset Detective Mysteries series (12 books) by Ron Base

The Doc Ford Novels (24 books) by Randy Wayne White

The Molly Murphy Mysteries(17 books) and The Royal Spyness Series (14 books) by Rhys Bowen

The Islands of Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce

Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum in Sanibel

Tinder Fella: A novel by Jennifer Schiff

A Shell of a Problem audiobook at Audible

Next Week's Guest

Joanna Penn, author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry.

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show. (Thanks to David Enzel for letting me know about this.)

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CEO and Co-founder of Astrohaus

Interview begins at 16:36 and ends at 52:56

Links

"Amazon's Alexa-powered smart glasses are now more widely available" by Nathan Ingraham at Engadget - November 19, 2020

Echo Frames (2nd edition)

r/Kindle Reddit post on new Oasis cover -$25

Fintie Origami Case for All-New Kindle Oasis - $20

Sale: Buy a Freewrite 2nd Gen or a Freewrite Traveler and get a free 1-year extended warranty

Markdown Guide

Sprinter Online Typewriter from Freewrite

NaNoWriMo

Next Week's Guest

Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, author of the Sanibel Island Mystery series

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show.

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VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Links

James McQuivey's site at Forrester

"Learn from 2020 To Create Your Anywhere-Work Strategy" at Forrester.com - November 17, 2020

NPR interview with Nicholas Christakis - October 29, 2020

Ford's all-electric Mustang

"Your Brain Is Not for Thinking" by Lisa Feldman Barrett at The New York Times - November 23, 2020

"A Holocaust Survivor Lifts Neighbors in Dark Times" by Matina Stevis-Gridneff at The New York Times - November 20, 2020

Next Week's Guest

Adam Leeb, CEO and co-founder of Astrohaus, creator of the Freewrite Traveler

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show. (Thanks to David Enzel for letting me know about this.)

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Len, Darlene, and Tess

Links

Courtyard by Marriott

Baked Beans at Bailey's General Store, Sanibel FL

Tesla Model 3

Maho Bay Campgrounds, St. John USVI

A Shell of a Problem: A Sanibel Island Mystery by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff (first in a series of six)

"Why Sanibel Island is the 'Sea Shell Capital of the World'" by Charity de Souza at Trips to Discover

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson

Mary Bondurant, Sanibel realtor extraordinaire

Sanibel Historical Museum & Village

Next Week's Guest

James McQuiviey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa

If you'd like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.

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Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine

Interview starts at 5:05 and ends at 45:39

Links

Kevin Kelly's back articles at Wired Magazine

Kevin Kelly's Technium blog

Weekly newsletter Recomendo

Vanishing Asia book in Instagram

Weekly podcast about the four favorite tools of remarkable people

Daily Cool Tools website

TRY video channel

Kevin Kelly on Twitter

Kevin Kelly's YouTube Channel

"AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform--Call It Mirrorworld" by Kevin Kelly at Wired - February 12, 2019

The Long Now Foundation

"Confessions of a Phone Bank Captain" by Len Edgerly at Medium - November 5, 2020

The Freewrite Traveler: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Writing Tool

On the Road with Alexa

If you'd like daily updates during Darlene's and my Tesla drive from Cambridge, Mass., to Sanibel Island in Florida, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, "Alexa, enable Morning Journal." Then each morning say, "Alexa, what's up?" or "Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time. Accompanied by the puppy Sophie, we leave tomorrow morning (Saturday, November 14, 2020.)

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