Category Archives: Digitization

Storing and Moving Paper

Posted on December 6, 2011 by GilPress

“In 1996, digital storage became more cost-effective for storing data than paper.” Morris and Truskowski, IBM Systems Journal, Vo. 42, No. 2, 2003.

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Commercial Radio Born

Posted on November 2, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1920, Westinghouse established the first commercial radio station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Harry P. Davis, a Westinghouse executive, saw an ad for amateur radio apparatus describing concerts broadcasts by Frank Conrad, an amateur wireless radio operator, he … Continue reading →

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Cash Flow

Posted on September 2, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1969, Chemical Bank installed the first ATM in the U.S. at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York. The first ATMs were designed to dispense a fixed amount of cash when a user inserted a specially coded card. A … Continue reading →

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Yeats Lost and Found at Boston College

Posted on July 25, 2011 by GilPress

When he was just 18 or 19 years old, in 1884, Yeats wrote a play titled “Love and Death.’’  The work was hidden among boxes of his journals, notebooks, and correspondence purchased by Boston College in 1993 from Michael Yeats, … Continue reading →

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Project Gutenberg Born

Posted on July 4, 2011 by GilPress

Forty years ago today, Michael Hart keyed in The United States Declaration of Independence to the mainframe he was using, all in upper case, because there was no lower case yet. Hart was a student at the University of Illinois … Continue reading →

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Digital Tipping Point: Kindle Books vs. Print Books

Posted on May 25, 2011 by GilPress

Amazon.com now sells more Kindle books than print books. The press release says: “Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon … Continue reading →

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The Value of Virtual

Posted on May 14, 2011 by GilPress

“The very fact that virtual possessions don’t have a physical form may actually enhance their value, researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and School of Design discovered in a study of 21 teenagers. 

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Earliest Surviving Dated Printed Book

Posted on May 11, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 868, The Diamond Sutra was published in China. The copy in the British Library is “the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.”

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Print Magazines Survive the Digital Tsunami?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by GilPress

The State of the Media Democracy Survey, Fifth Edition, from Deloitte, reports surprising finding regarding print magazines: 

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This Day In Information: Streaming Digital Media

Posted on February 25, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 2007, Netflix announced its billionth DVD delivery.

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