Apr
4
What’s Bookish In The Pink Light Of Spring?
April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
…An eternal poem etched on the roads of a town, a novelist who took a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and lived to tell the tale, an NPR word nerdy piece that references my favorite book as a child…
Feb
11
What Does Terminology Have To Do With It?
February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We like to watch for memes. Here’s a recent one (and a funny one!)… FUCK YOUR NOGUCHI COFFEE TABLE Also, a thoughtful piece on the term “e-book” (is it the “horseless carriage” of our times?)… Technology Time Lines by David Wilk of Booktrix E-books are to books what horseless carriages are [...]
Feb
4
Morality Tales and “random bullshit” from Cyberlandia…
February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Here are a few goodies from our friends in book related cyberlandia – The following “Publishing Talk” introduces us to John Sundman, a free thinking visionary blogging at Wetmachine, a blog that self-describes as covering such diverse brainiac topics as “software praxis, technoparanoia, the craft of writing, self-publishing, politics, and random bullshit….” – Publishing [...]
Jan
18
Please Don’t Burn Our Digital “Books”
January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In protest of digital book “burning”.
Jan
4
Shhhh. The Silence Is Coming.
January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off and unplug why don’t you?
Nov
23
Old School Books Win In The Children’s Book Market
November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Parents tend to choose old fashioned paper books over e-books for their children…
Oct
26
Thinking Outside The Book
October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
These are books. These are also books. …and so is this. What else? Enjoy this TED Talk on next generation digital books: “Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our [...]
Oct
17
“Commonplace Books” For The Modern Age
October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I am not sure where or how the rather dusty term “commonplace book” came up recently, but it strikes me that by definition a “commonplace book” could easily translate to the modern day blog. A commonplace book is “any manuscript that collects material along a common theme by an individual”, and they were a common [...]
Sep
13
Sleeping With Your Laptop Again?
September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment
New directions on the literary landscape parallel new directions on the technology landscape – everything is coalescing. How should we feel about this?  As you no doubt have noticed by the wireless input streaming into your neurons on a daily basis, we humans and our information are increasingly connected in the growing web of [...]
Sep
8
Attack of The Robot People
September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Our books are not the only things that are being roboticized…