The Kindle Chronicles

Author of Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day Interview starts at 21:13 and ends at 39:30 Becoming aware of shadow work enables us to prune away some of the clutter in our lives. Take, for example, surveys—the inundation of our time with surveys, requests for surveys. It seems you can’t buy anything or go anywhere or receive any service without having a followup survey usually emailed to you to ask you, “How did we do?” And I would just encourage the citizens to throw those away if they don’t feel like writing them. We are not obligated to fill out these surveys, but these organizations are preying on our time and asking us to do it. And that’s the kind of clutter that you can prune away. News “Reorder Prime-Eligible Items” with Echo (Amazon info) My preferred stylus, with microfiber tip - $7.99 Christopher March and Echo announce big news “Amazon Publishing Marches On” by Jim Milliot with Rachel Deahl at Publishers Weekly - May 8, 2015 “Amazon’s Hit Man” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg Business - January 25, 2012 Little a, Amazon Publishing’s literary fiction imprint Two Lions, Amazon Publishing’s young readers imprint “Kobo Launches Free eBook Platform for Southwest Airlines Travelers” at Digital Book World - May 13, 2015 Tech Tips “Amazon Kindle Fire 1st Generation Benefits from a New Firmware - Download Version 6.3.4” at Softpedia - May 15, 2015 Kindle Fire 1st Generation Software Updates at Amazon.com Kindle Fire HDX 7” 32 GB with Special Offers (Previous Generation -3rd 2013) - $199.00 Fire HD 6” 16 GB with Special Offers - $119.00 My eBay auction of Fire HD 6” 16 GB and case (ends Tuesday May 19 at 5:50 pm MDT) Poetic Slimline Case for Fire HDX 7 (2013) - $14.95 at Amazon.com Amazon Kindle Fire HDX Origami Case - $44.99 at Amazon.com Fire Keyboard - $59.99 AmazonBasics Bluetooth Keyboard for iOS devices - $25.99 Interview with Craig LambertShadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig LambertEarlier book (1981) on shadow work by Ivan IllichMind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (1999)“Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work” - op ed piece at The New York Times - October 29, 2011 “Self-Service: A Sign ‘The Robots Have Won?’” radio interview with Craig Lambert for “Here & Now” on WBUR - November 28, 2011 “‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’” by Barbara Ehrenreich at The New York Times Sunday Book Review - May 11, 2015 Content Amazon Editors’ Young Adult Book Club Amazon Editors’ YA Book Club group at Goodreads Next Week’s Guests Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien, coauthors of an indie publishing success story titled The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

INSERT PHOTO OF CUTE DOG HERE I have tweaked my workflow for uploading new episodes of the show and want to make sure it works before I begin creating TKC 354 this week. If you see this and could let me know how it looks and sounds on your devices, I would appreciate hearing from you at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com. Here is a link to Amazon.com (feel free to buy something with it!)

Director of the Isaacson School for New Media, Colorado Mountain College Presentation starts at 5:32 and ends at 43:55 In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote, "The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet but the one who cannot take a photograph." I mean could this guy see far ahead, or […]

Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Interview starts at 13:37 and ends at 36:56 I remember a long time ago when Timothy Leary saw one of my first books, Cyberia or something, an early book about cyberculture, and he took it and he was moving his finger along the lines, and going "a line, and […]

Founder of Write Our World Interview starts at 19:15 and ends at 39:47 The necessity of writing a book requires that they talk to the elders in their communities or other people who can help them, so it's really a wonderful language-building, literacy activity. News "Four of the big five have new deals with Amazon […]

Links NMX New Media Expo in Las Vegas Tom Webster of Edison Research Monthly podcast listening statistics from Edison Research – February 15, 2015 Power of Moms podcast Mark Ramsey's Media Unplugged podcast Libsyn Rocks! Interview with Robert Martin (begins at 3:39, ends at 20:00) Isaacson School of New Media at Colorado Mountain College Article about "the uncanny […]

Director of Content at Wattpad Interview starts at 17:50 and ends at 37:37 I think that Wattpad's a great place for people to be able to tell their own experience and their own story. We're seeing really interesting, diverse stories being added to Wattpad from around the world. News Oyster "Oyster Expands Its 'Netflix For Books Service […]

Co-authors of Transcendence Interview starts at 8:31 and ends at 38:29 As an historical upward swing, people can view all this as ways of increasing our ability to share information and ideas and therefore get smarter. I'm not sure we're taking advantage of that yet, but maybe we will. –R. U. Sirius News "Amazon adds new […]

Software Quality Engineer in Santa Clara, California Interview starts at 13:06 and ends at 39:32 So if you have Evernote installed on your Fire, then it will be one of the options. You can put it directly into your notebook. It's not quite as slick as I'd like, but it's better than copy and paste. […]

Founder and CEO of Pebble Technology Corp. Interview starts at 7:54 and ends at 19:50 What we found is that as long as you're open, and the watch is an open platform, people will hack on it, people will build. So there's actually a Windows Phone for Pebble, there's a Blackberry app. I'll have to […]