Swirlin' In the News - Battle Song for Green Media

Google released their book project of 15 million books designed to displace and preserve libraries for the digital age. Now that content is digital and available to six billion phones, is it time to end the paper waste?

Here is a war song adapted from Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind that has been made time-age appropriate for the green earth. Download coffee-table apps.

Swirlin' In The News, by Dash Chang
melody of Blowin' in the Wind, by Bob Dylan

How many trees should a man cut down
Before he is less of a man?
How many bags must a dolphin consume
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the newspaper fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is swirlin' in the news
The answer is swirlin' in the news.

Yes, how many years can the petro persist
Before it's drained by we me?
Yes, how many years can we burn too much oil
Because carbon just is not free?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is swirlin' in the news
The answer is swirlin' in the news.

How many tablets must a man boot up
Before we can see a new sky?
Yes, how many ears must a man block off
Before he mums the parrots' cry?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many forests have died?
The answer my friend is swirlin' in the news
The answer is swirlin' in the news.

Media partners, please take heed. IDG, Wired, and the US News and World Report have ceased print services. Publishers have a social responsibility to move their readers to digital.

Set a 5-year plan to go 100% digital. The clock has been ticking.

Original Lyrics

Blowin' In The Wind, by Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

The Incredible Kittens Apps - the Sequel

We follow the success of the incredible puppies app with apps for cats and big kittens like lions and tigers.

The cats app presents 80 breeds of purebreds with over 800 of the images collected from web volunteers around the world. The big kittens app has over 30 breeds of those big cats and over 300 pictures.

Each coffee-table app download saves a shrub, a can of oil, possibly a dolphin, and one mind. Enjoy!

State of Global Education: Photo Essay of Schools Around the World

These coffee-table apps tour the issues of schools and education around the world. Apps present the current educational topics in Asia, Commonwealth Nations, Europe, The Americas, and the United States. Click on the image to the right to access the Asia app. (ed: For President Obama's November trip to India, we've a tour of schools in India, as well.)

Observations

Rather than a political statement, these apps simply gather and present the current discussions around the world. This is not an attack on teachers, but rather the bureaucracy that dominates education discussions in the United States.

While the USA discussions have been focused on budget deficits, classroom sizes, teacher credentials, and low achievements among students -- the poorer countries in the rest of world marches forward with the global challenge to educate. The rest of the world focuses on the kids in school; these photo tours present evidence of the overwhelming dominance of bureaucatic roadblocks in the USA. Sorry, that's what the pictures show ;-)

USA Elections

Education budgets is a hot subject for the current US elections. The US pays more per child than most nations. Why pay more for less?

Do we need to push for better productivity in education?

Should the discussions focus more on the kids versus the USA processes for standards, examinations, and special interests?

eBook of 400 Mobile Phones from Around the Globe

Here is another coffee-table app with 400 pages of images of mobile phones from around the globe - green, simple, convenient. It's the dynamic story of the fast rate of change for wireless communications. Check back regularly to see the changes from around the world.

Dance Tour for a GreenWorld

We've released another series of coffee-table apps. This set of apps presents a tour of dancing across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The last app includes Australia, Africa, and Oceania nations. Touch the right image to access.

Enjoy and learn the different styles of dance across our globe.

GreenWorld Apps

Each app download replaces a 400-page coffee-table book that saves a shrub, a can of oil, possibly a dolphin, and one mind.

Download more!

Bookmark and keep your favorite coffee-table app on your phone ;-)

The Incredible Puppies App - Top Coffee Table App

This incredible collection of 3,000 images for 300 breeds of puppies has zoomed to 10,000 downloads in two weeks - the best coffee-table app from Keys. Go figure ;-)

Coffee-Table App^TM

Recently, at a dentist office, five parents were waiting, but each was active with their touch phones. Hundreds of magazines covered the tables - un-touched.

Is this another death blow to publishing?

Many of our apps use the coffee-table book or magazine theme. Each app is heavy with photographs - and equivalent to a publication with 500 to 5,000 pages. Since the app is 100% digital, it's much lighter than a book, delivers more value, and saves trees and our environment.

The coffee-table apps are designed for light education and light entertainment -- to fill in the precious free moments while watching TV, waiting for a doctor, or riding in the car. Simple games allow interaction with terms that lead to memorization and learning.

The apps reveal the richness of images and information when sourced from millions of volunteers who maintain the vast data bank that is the global web. Google ranks the best, which we present to our users. Thus, each app is like a social network using where millions participate to keep the web relevant and current.

Of course, we also supply apps that tackle serious subjects - like vocabulary learning, biology, chemistry, and the arts. Bookmark your favorites!

Updated the Travel Apps - Mostly Free

Updated our travel apps with more information per page, more relevant images, and more apps.

Also opened new series for three large tourist regions:

United Kingdom

California

Caribbean

Enjoy!