The Kindle Chronicles

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Links "How Employees Feel About Coronavirus: Early Results from Forrester's PandemicEX Survey" by James McQuivey at Forrester blog - March 11, 2020 Jeff Bezos's letter to employees In-N-Out Burger's Coronavirus statement - March 24, 2020 More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (not mentioned in interview, but of possible interest) "Forrester Future Fit": How Fit Are You?" By James McQuivey - April 1, 2019 "Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World" By Michael Pollan (Audible) Man Runs Marathon on Balcony in France (YouTube) Devoted by Dean Koontz Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

My Wife at Sunrise in Ocean Park, Maine Links Jeff Bezos's letter to employees "Will Covid-19 change how Amazon-Haters See Amazon?" By David Enzel at Medium - March 24, 2020 "Amazon's COVID-19 blog" at Day One - March 27, 2020 "What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus" by Jessica Lustig at The New York Times - March 24, 2020 PSA Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic (YouTube) - March 24, 2020 "The new iPad Pro isn't a laptop replacement. It's better than that" by Jeremy White at Wired - March 24, 2020 "Ramblin' Boy" by Tom Paxton (YouTube) Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (YouTube) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Links Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia and YouTube Jason's performance at Harlem Sound Stage (rescheduled for October) Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Interview starts at 1:05 and ends at 39:20 Links A G Riddle's website My father's poem, "Transition" (video) Next week's guest: Jason Diakité, author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Facebook: The Inside Story Links Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (2011) "'Facebook: The Inside Story' author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google" by Casey Newton at The Verge - February 26, 2020 "The Social Network" - 2010 movie on Prime Video "The Alternate Universe Where Facebook Bought Twitter" by Steven Levy at Wired - March 6, 2020 Click here to for access to Steven Levy's Plaintext weekly newsletter, bundled with a great price for Print + Digital Access to Wired: 1 year for $5. Lawrence Lessig "South By Southwest Has Been Canceled Because of the Coronavirus" by Aaron Mak at Slate - March 6, 2020 Statement by SXSW Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Executive Director of Digital Book World Links "Amazon's top spokesman: We want to question Trump over 'blatant political interference' in Pentagon cloud contract decision" by Annie Palmer at CNBC - February 12, 2020 "Why Bernie Sanders Praised Amazon" by Jay Carney at The New York Times - February 10, 2010 "Amazon Kindle to include more options in the font menu" by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - February 19, 2020 Kindle software updates Bradley Metrock This Week in Voice podcast Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020, in Nashville American Library Association #eBooksForAll petition campaign "Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo" by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World blog - January 28, 2020 "ALA Midwinter 2020: Macmillan CEO John Sargent, Librarians Spar Over E-Book Embargo" by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020 "Book Club" column by Ron Charles mentioning DBW ban on Macmillan employees at The Washington Post Jennifer N. Baker Vooks Scribd Alexa Flash Briefings Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Links A G Riddle's books at Amazon.com Next Week's Guest Bradley Metrock, director of Digital Book World Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Technical Editor at Microwave Journal Interview begins at 5:40 and ends at 47:00 Links Readwise app for Kindle highlights Articles by Gary Lerude at Microwave Journal "Introducing Amazon Sidewalk" at The Amazon Blog - September 27, 2020 Gary's Podcast Recommendations: The Daily, Post Reports, The Daily 202, On Being, Secular Buddhism, Timber Hawkeye My Asynchronous Dialog with Austin Kleon at The Kindle Chronicles - May 4, 2019 The Pomodoro Technique Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) by A. G. Riddle My most recent interview with A. G. Riddle - March 7, 2019 Next Week's Guest A G Riddle Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes Interview begins at 20:20 and ends at 47:20 Links "Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees in Response to Library Embargo" by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World website - January 28, 2020 American Library Association launches campaign against e-book embargo - September 11, 2020 Report on ALA Midwinter 2020 meeting by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - January 26, 2020 Washington Post coverage of Digital Book World ban of Macmillan eBooks For All petition "How to Make Your iPhone or iPad Read Kindle Books Aloud to you" by Reagan Rose at Redeeming Productivity Library Extension for Chrome and Firefox via Kevin Kelly at Recommendo Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West 5 a.m. Writers Club My January 18, 2020 interview with Joanna Penn, creator of The Creative Penn blog and podcast "Finding the Perfect Comp" by Kathleen West at The Debutante Ball - January 21, 2020 Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Kathleen West's book tour dates for Minor Dramas The Inside Flap: A Weekly Book Podcast Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

James and his Bengal cat, Serena Links Arlington Street Church, Boston Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins Internment by Samira Ahmed Click here to enable my daily Morning Journal flash briefing at the Alexa Skills store. You will then hear each day's entry by saying, "Alexa, what's new?" Next Week's Guest Kathleen West, author of Minor Dramas and other Catastrophes - available for pre-order with delivery February 4, 2020 For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.