Over on MJ Rose’s blog, Kevin Smokler wrote a fascinating guest post earlier this week with the same title.

I consider myself reasonably geeky. I got rid of the glasses back in March, but I still think pocket protectors make a lot of sense. I learned things in this essay about modern technologies and how they can be helpful to authors that I’ve been wondering about. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do. It’s excellent and explains things in very easy to understand terms and has links for finding out more or using the technologies.