Day: August 20, 2004

It is my opinion that tablet PCs are the next big thing for education. Contrary to the promotion of Palm-like products by some very influential sources, the present PDAs lack an adequate display, lack a reasonable method for input, and are simply not powerful enough to provide students useful and efficient tools for education. It is kind of like going back to the old Apple 2e days without the keyboard. An inexpensive tablet (I would hope about $750) would be small enough and powerful enough. I obviously am very interested in Apple products and have been hoping Apple would create a product for the tablet market. I have even predicted (incorrectly) that a tablet Mac would be the big announcement at previous Apple trade shows.

So here are a couple of rumors …
1) A tablet is on the way – see The Register
2) HyperCard will rise again (I can’t reveal my source on this one) 😉

Most folks do not worry about things like whether or not Internet should begin with an upper-case I. The outlets for my writing do seem to care. Actually, they probably only care that I have some rule in my head that I am able to follow consistently. Until now, my rule has been to begin references to THE Web in “caps” (e.g., Internet, Web).

Now, it appears I will have to unlearn my rule. Wired magazine now reports that the rule has changed. This makes sense to me, but it also means I will have to use my word processor to search for all of the “Internets” and “Webs” in the ms. I am now revising and make changes. I would not want to appear unknowledgeable on such matters.

So — repeat after me — the Internet is just the internet.

P.S. – I am not editing previous posts to this blog. All errors – punctuation, spelling, capitalization — will stand as originally committed.