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Category Archives: Science & Technology
RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
Also posted in Arts & Literature, Margin Notes, Mind & Society, Reading Around Tagged Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire Leave a comment
The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)
A book is essentially whole, unitary -- a little world of human thought, word, & spirit, chosen, shaped, and bound within its covers. Books are bundles; a book is what is bound together. For what makes a book more than it's binding?
Gutenberg’s PC: The Espresso Book Machine
The Espresso Book Machine brings the flexibility and ubiquity of digital media to the old medium of printed paper books, extending the transformation that Gutenberg's press began, and putting the final say on publishing a book firmly in the hands of the authors and readers. So what will happen when everybody has one of these?
Also posted in Arts & Literature, Reading Around Tagged Clay Shirky, e-ink, e-reader, Espresso Book Machine, Gutenberg, iLiad, Jason Epstein, Kindle, POD, Readius 8 Comments
Shiny new software…
Snow outside, snow on Matt's blog, WordPress 2.7 (with a snazzy redesign and full support for child themes!), and Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
Also posted in Margin Notes Tagged Blogging, Christmas, Coltrane, Digital Literacy, FF3.1, Firefox, Snow, WordPress, WP2.7 2 Comments
Does Your Book Deserve My Vote?
Kids react to books much as they react to their favorite candidates: they like them because everyone else does, adding titles to their favorites list even when they haven't read them. Voting for a Book, part of the Youth Radio series on NPR.
Also posted in Arts & Literature, Margin Notes, Mind & Society Tagged Books, Kids, Lissa Soep, Media Literacy, NPR, Politics, Radio, Technology, Youth Radio Leave a comment
There’s Something Happening Here…
Nicholas Carr says, This is your brain online. You've been warned. Now go forth and read.
Also posted in Mind & Society, Reading Around Tagged Books, Buffalo Springfield, Clay Shirky, Digital Literacy, Google, Kevin Kelly, Media, Nicholas Carr, Psychology Leave a comment
Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)
The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, explains why A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.
Also posted in Margin Notes, Mind & Society, Reading Around Tagged Civility, Clay Shirky, Conversation, Digital Literacy, Jimmy Wales, The New York Times, Tim O'Riley, Trolls Leave a comment
Little Things
or, The Lives of the Flu Cell