If Apple mad a car would it look like this?

If Apple made a car would it have wheels like this?

NewImage From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Skeuomorphic thinking may work on occasions but on the whole it is bad. Fake spokes.

Like the fake leather in apple apps. Ugh.

The calendar app does it right on the interface, it tells me it is Wednesday 25! Just right.

Jobs invented the “desktop” metaphor (Or so its said), it is a guide in a place where nothing is real.

Publishing on the Net

It’s hit a new high. I see & hear & about 100 times the talk of self publishing books, and books on demand than even 6 months ago. (Later: checked out my hunch) And I buy self published books! Got the sample of this one, will buy it if I like it.

Kim Hill has a discussion with Kate De Goldie & Laura Kroetch on ebooks, (not much on self publishing though).

Click to play & download Kim Hill – Saturday

Amazon

Tech Crunch on self publishing

How to publish on Kindle:

KDP Kindle Direct publishing

Or read their ebook

The new Apple book Authoring initiative on iPad ( beautiful but locked down and sinister) Apple iBook Author

The rather wonderful LuLu. Heres one where I bought both the book AND the digital edition: Sociodrama

I’ve just bought a swag of Moreno books that have been republished from through Lulu as well: The First psychodramatic Family