Irie Tools (Business & Technology)

I just found out about a fascinating website, thanks to this post, Chris Anderson Explains TED on Jim Grisanzio’s blog. The website is for a conference called TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which it described as follows:

The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

I spent the last few hours, on the website, watching videos of some of the talks at the conference, and I was amazed. The speakers, giving the talks, obviously believe strongly in what they are doing and it shows. I highly recommend that you check out the TED website for yourself. My favourite talk so far is this one, Patrick Awuah: Educating a new generation of African leaders. This talk changed the way I think.

Amazon really irritated me when they introduced the Kindle (their new eBook reader). There I was all ready to buy a Kindle (practically drooling if you want to know the truth), only to discover that the only way to buy books for the Kindle is to use Sprint’s national high-speed (EVDO) data network. How am I supposed to do that when I live in Jamaica? It just seems like an unnecessary slap in the face. Why not allow the use of a Wi-Fi network as an option?

Anyway, I stopped buying books from Amazon after that, and not just because I am irritated with them but more importantly because I don’t want to buy the same book twice. I figure that when I eventually get an eBook reader, I am probably going to end up buying eBook versions of many of the books I already own.

Well, today, I finally broke down and bought some more books from Amazon, see the list below:

• Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand
• Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)
• Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites
• The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

They should come in handy when I do the (long overdue) redesign of the Irie Tools website.