My parents paid off this handsome set of blue, black and gold-bound books in monthly installments, and it was eventually delivered (with an equally impressive 5-pound dictionary) in time to guide me through the next 10 years of book reports, papers and science projects. Thanks to a door-to-door salesman, the Wonderland of Knowledge encyclopedia officially became part of our household in the mid-1960s. Follow the Mythbusters' bouncing cannonball.This article was originally published on May 5, 2013.“The Joy of Books” tap dances all over your Kindle.Who’s flying drones in U.S.? … FAA won’t say.Supreme Court backs privacy over police in GPS case.Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside.Another survey that shows vendors think you’re stupid.No, Wikipedia has not forgiven GoDaddy for backing SOPA.If the “ridiculous” Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco.Techies are spending a lot of time on PCs in our post-PC world.Holdouts explain why they aren’t buying an iPad.You can follow me on Twitter here and on Google+ here. And, if you’d like to receive Buzzblog via e-mail newsletter, here’s where to sign up. Here are a few more recent buzzblog items. (Update: Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, writing on his personal blog, says he is glad to hear that Encyclopaedia Britannica will live on online, but he's concerned that its content is essentially invisible to those looking for it via Google in other words, just about everyone.) and see if one of my siblings can remember which encyclopedia we had when we were kids. The Web site is continuously updated, it's much more expansive and it has multimedia."Īll true and all for the better, but I am going to feel sad and nostalgic anyway. "Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. "It's a rite of passage in this new era," Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. This quote from a story in the New York Times pretty much says it all: The 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds, will be its last. What I can tell you, in case you missed the story, is that Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print after an astonishing 244 years. We had an encyclopedia set in my childhood home, although at the moment I am at a loss to recall which brand.
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