March 2010
23 posts
Rushkoff: Program or be programmed! →
SXSW 2010:Ten Commands for a Digital Age. via Boing Boing
The Nabokov Redesign →
John Gall discusses his thoughts about his most recent project the redesign of all twenty-one Nabokov covers:
Nabokov was a passionate butterfly collector, a theme that has cropped up on…
MoMA Acquires the @ →
MoMA unveils it’s newest addition; complete with the history of the @ back to scribal times.
BookServer: Powered by OPDS →
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of…
Penguin Demos iPad Books →
Steal →
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The Work of Being Watched →
In his discussion of digital culture, Richard Lanham argues, for example, that the character of the digital aesthetic counters the “oppressive” nature of the canon: “The traditional idea of an…
Copy & Paste →
Flickr: Copy & Paste.
Toward A New Alexandria →
Lisbet Rausing imagines a different kind of library; not exactly Borges, but pretty neat.
The Future of Publishing →
YouTube – The Future of Publishing – created by DK (UK).
Nice try Penguin! Too bad this video isn’t nearly as gimmicky as a cat playing the piano.
Signficant Objects And Electric Literature Get... →
Two of our favorite sites will be get it on in a comic-bookesque crossover. Significant Objects will be hosting five objects and stories brought to you by the folks down at Electric Literature….
Poor Amazon: Part 2 →
Nice to be able to read Kindle e-books on another class of machine, but this is a very un-Mac-like Mac app. Look at these dialog boxes here and here, for example. The icon is, to my eyes, the exact…
Poor Amazon: Part 2 →
Nice to be able to read Kindle e-books on another class of machine, but this is a very un-Mac-like Mac app. Look at these dialog boxes here and here, for example. The icon is, to my eyes, the exact…
Existence? well what does it matter? – “The... →
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25…
The Homosexual Subject: Coming-Out as a Political... →
Scholar Yong Wang formulates a Lacanian analysis of the coming out narrative.
Poor Amazon: Part 1 →
The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is getting uglier. Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an…
YouTube – Marshall McLuhan on the TODAY Show →
YouTube – Marshall McLuhan on the TODAY Show.
“An ancient and invaluable profession, the passport for a given culture’s...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Translator Speaks Up For Translations
“Do Good’s deeds live on? No, Evil’s deeds do, O God.”
– Jim Kalb’s Palindrome Connection
“The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory...”
– Publishing: The Revolutionary Future - The New York Review of Books