A few weeks back though the auspices of TED, I paid a visit to a private library. The owner doesn't want publicity, and I won't reveal details, but it was a staggeringly beautiful (if idiosyncratic) collection, and I can't imagine that there are many collections in private hands that rival it in value in the United States. …
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http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2008/05/placeholder.htmlWe're taking ben's leaving as an opportunity to think about the institute's mission and the role of if:book within that context. and most importantly we're trying to figure out the best way to involve the readers of if:book in this discussion. if you have any immediate suggestions or thoughts, please comment here or send me an email. …
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fail again fail better have fun
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2008/04/fail_again_fail_better_have_fu.htmlA new research paper by Bruce Mason and Sue Thomas on A Million Penguins, the controversial wiki novel created last year by Penguin Books makes fascinating reading. It includes amongst other delights an analysis of the activities of the contributor known as YellowBanana and whether s/he was …
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Can a Novel Be Written Wikipedia Style? The Results Are In.
http://www.oculture.com/2008/05/can_a_novel_be_written_wikip...Over the course of five weeks, roughly 1500 writers drafted a collaborative novel using wiki software (the same one used by Wikipedia), and you can now view the completed manuscript here. So far the reviews are not overwhelming. According to one observer, “it’s incoherent. You might get something similar if you took a stack of supermarket checkout line potboilers and some Mad Libs and threw them in a blender.” And then there’s this pithy verdict
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Software Studies
http://lab.softwarestudies.coma little closer to an exciting fusion of old and new forms. Please help spread the word in your communities and by all means participate in the discussion on Grand Text Auto. Important links: - Noah Wardrip-Fruin's introduction to the experiment - The Institute for the Future of the Book's introduction - Coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education - First section of Expressive Processing About the participants: Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a digital media writer, scholar, and artist whose current work is focused on fiction and play. He has recently
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Grillman and Luna
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Lingamish
http://lingamish.wordpress.com, April DeConick (here and here) and Loren Rossen (HT: Judy). Are we really readers anymore? Most of the world interacts with information orally and aurally. Is this the dawn of the Bible of the Future? Or the death of the book. I’ve seen a number of posts on Iyov’s blog about the plurality of Bible versions and the possibility of building your own Bible. Rick Mansfield pondered this in the distant past. It seems he doesn
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I'm Just Here for the Food
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Ciberescritas - Um blogue da jornalista Isabel Coutinho
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wikipedia
http://www.exitquote.com/2008/04/wikipedia.htmlcan see what people said, and what justifications they gave, about virtually everything that's included in an article. And most importantly, good articles are sourced. If it's not sourced, don't trust it - it's as simple as that. And then there's the Britannica flap that's just been everywhere (unfortunately the original Nature article is now paid subscription only; see if your library has one). The truth is, Britannica is an authoritative source, and Wikipedia is not. Britannica is written by and sourced
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An infinitesimal destruction
http://www.currion.net/2008/05/13/an-infinitesimal-destructi...meditates on the nature of libraries
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Book Soup Blog
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MEDIA PRAXIS
http://aljean.wordpress.comd help me with promotions, etc. but I am lucky enough to think outside this logic). This writing really shouldn’t be in a book. It demands the link. So it raises all my colleague Kathleen Fitzpatrick and her gang at the Institute for the Future of the Book have been modeling: they’re better on all this than I am so make sure to read what they’re about. (I have been in long conversation with these guys about my Media Praxis project somehow connecting to their work, whether this ultimately comes to
