Publishing: TheBookseller predictions for 2010 part 1 & part 2

Interest-Piquing: The CES in Las Vegas is kicking out eReaders and tablets like made. Still nothing from Apple, but my personal faves are the Entorage Edge for combining LCD and eInk well, the Fujitsu FLEPia for colour eInk (though not very well) and the Plastic Logic Que for its business OS (and the Skiff for the same, but I prefer the Que for showing the Brits are in the game too). There’s loads of great new tech on display too. DearAuthor has an interesting post about some of the new eInk software on display, too.

(And a great video: BBC reporter breaks unbreable phone!)

Procrastination: Another time-sink, I Used to Believe, though if you spend too long on there you start to notice which childhood beliefs were apparently near-universal.

InsPiration: The diary of Nathaniel Bryceson aged 19, (Wharf clerk of Soho & Pimlico, 1846). Complete with wicked deeds done with his girlfriend, all the latest hangings, and how boring his job was. All he’s missing is FarmVille and TurfWars and it’s basically facebook!