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Rough TyWords in stone and on the wind in General
03-Feb-2012After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and have come up with four categories of fixity or stability - not all of which are typ [..] Read complete article Visit Words in stone and on the wind
Rough TySaint Zuck in General
02-Feb-2012"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," writes Mark Zuckerberg at the start of his letter to would-be shareholders in the company's IPO filing. "It was built to accomplish a social mission ? to make the world more open and connected." Hosanna! One of the great things about our newly transparent world is that we can peer into people's pasts - I mean, their timelines - and see what th [..] Read complete article Visit Saint Zuck
Rough TyThe camera in the stands in General
31-Jan-2012The wisdom of Pudge Fisk, channeled through Jon Udell: Somewhere in the 2000s, [Roger] Angell asked [Carlton] Fisk to reflect on what had most altered the game of baseball since his playing days. The salaries? The drugs? No. The game-changer, Fisk said, was instant replay. His game-winning 1975 home run is one of most-remembered moments in all of sports. The video of that event is one of the most- [..] Read complete article Visit The camera in the stands

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Rough TyWhy publishers should give away ebooks in General
30-Jan-2012I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don't anymore. That's not to say I don't listen to MP3s. I have about 10,000 of the little guys squeezed like vienna sausages into my iTunes music folder, and I listen to them a lot. But when I buy music today I buy it on vinyl. I'm no audiophile, no retro hepcat, but my ears tell me that music sounds better on vinyl - warmer, more nuanced, less shrill - and I make i [..] Read complete article Visit Why publishers should give away ebooks

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Rough TyPower to the data! in General
27-Jan-2012Seth Finkelstein, a long-time crusader against online censorship, made what seemed like a jaundiced comment on my recent post Piracy and Privacy. I had raised the possibility that online activists, fresh from their SOPA fight, might now come to the support of efforts to give people more control over the personal information that companies collect and trade online. Will the activists rise up again? [..] Read complete article Visit Power to the data!

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Rough TyPieces of mind in General
24-Jan-2012In an intriguing article at The Millions, Guy Patrick Cunningham wonders whether fragmentary writing may prove a cure for fragmentary reading: [David Shields's] Reality Hunger and [Masha Tupitsyn?s] Laconia are very different books, but they share this desire to use fragmentary writing to dramatize the act of thinking through culture (in Shields? case mostly books, in Tupitsyn?s mostly films). Eve [..] Read complete article Visit Pieces of mind

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Rough TyWords are numbers too in General
24-Jan-2012One reason to get excited about the rise of the enticingly named "digital humanities" is that pretty soon students will be able to do their math homework and their English homework at the same time. The two subjects will converge (as things tend to do these days), and that should greatly enhance the efficiency of education. Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it p [..] Read complete article Visit Words are numbers too

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Rough TyPiracy and privacy in General
24-Jan-2012Internet activists flexed some impressive muscle over the last couple of weeks in working to block Congress from enacting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), which would have put legal restraints and restrictions on search engines, advertising networks, internet service providers, and other online sites and services as a means of stemming the unauthorized trade of copyrighted works and other forms [..] Read complete article Visit Piracy and privacy

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Rough TyThe Summers' Tale in General
22-Jan-2012"Before the printing press," writes Lawrence Summers in the Times's Education Life section today, "scholars had to memorize 'The Canterbury Tales' to have continuing access to them." That has to be one of the most dunderheaded sentences ever written by a former Harvard president and former Treasury secretary. The bound book was invented more than a thousand years before the printing press came alo [..] Read complete article Visit The Summers' Tale
Rough TyThinking about reading in General
03-Jan-2012To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors include Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, and Blake Morrison. I also have a piece in the book, "The Dreams of Readers," in which I mull over my own experience as a reader and try to connect it with some of the interesting new research, by scholars lik [..] Read complete article Visit Thinking about reading

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Words in stone and on the wind
After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and have come up with four categories of fixity or stability - not all of which are typ [..] Read complete article
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Saint Zuck
"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," writes Mark Zuckerberg at the start of his letter to would-be shareholders in the company's IPO filing. "It was built to accomplish a social mission ? to make the world more open and connected." Hosanna! One of the great things about our newly transparent world is that we can peer into people's pasts - I mean, their timelines - and see what th [..] Read complete article
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The camera in the stands
The wisdom of Pudge Fisk, channeled through Jon Udell: Somewhere in the 2000s, [Roger] Angell asked [Carlton] Fisk to reflect on what had most altered the game of baseball since his playing days. The salaries? The drugs? No. The game-changer, Fisk said, was instant replay. His game-winning 1975 home run is one of most-remembered moments in all of sports. The video of that event is one of the most- [..] Read complete article
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Why publishers should give away ebooks
I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don't anymore. That's not to say I don't listen to MP3s. I have about 10,000 of the little guys squeezed like vienna sausages into my iTunes music folder, and I listen to them a lot. But when I buy music today I buy it on vinyl. I'm no audiophile, no retro hepcat, but my ears tell me that music sounds better on vinyl - warmer, more nuanced, less shrill - and I make i [..] Read complete article
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Published 30-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Power to the data!
Seth Finkelstein, a long-time crusader against online censorship, made what seemed like a jaundiced comment on my recent post Piracy and Privacy. I had raised the possibility that online activists, fresh from their SOPA fight, might now come to the support of efforts to give people more control over the personal information that companies collect and trade online. Will the activists rise up again? [..] Read complete article
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Published 27-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Pieces of mind
In an intriguing article at The Millions, Guy Patrick Cunningham wonders whether fragmentary writing may prove a cure for fragmentary reading: [David Shields's] Reality Hunger and [Masha Tupitsyn?s] Laconia are very different books, but they share this desire to use fragmentary writing to dramatize the act of thinking through culture (in Shields? case mostly books, in Tupitsyn?s mostly films). Eve [..] Read complete article
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Published 24-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Words are numbers too
One reason to get excited about the rise of the enticingly named "digital humanities" is that pretty soon students will be able to do their math homework and their English homework at the same time. The two subjects will converge (as things tend to do these days), and that should greatly enhance the efficiency of education. Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it p [..] Read complete article
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Published 24-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Piracy and privacy
Internet activists flexed some impressive muscle over the last couple of weeks in working to block Congress from enacting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), which would have put legal restraints and restrictions on search engines, advertising networks, internet service providers, and other online sites and services as a means of stemming the unauthorized trade of copyrighted works and other forms [..] Read complete article
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Published 24-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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The Summers' Tale
"Before the printing press," writes Lawrence Summers in the Times's Education Life section today, "scholars had to memorize 'The Canterbury Tales' to have continuing access to them." That has to be one of the most dunderheaded sentences ever written by a former Harvard president and former Treasury secretary. The bound book was invented more than a thousand years before the printing press came alo [..] Read complete article
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Published 22-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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Thinking about reading
To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors include Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, and Blake Morrison. I also have a piece in the book, "The Dreams of Readers," in which I mull over my own experience as a reader and try to connect it with some of the interesting new research, by scholars lik [..] Read complete article
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Published 03-Jan-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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The industrialization of the ineffable
It dawns on me that there may be a correspondence between Steven Johnson's vision of serendipity as the output of a properly manipulated digital mechanism and Nick Bilton's belief in the scheduling of units of daydreaming as a means for the optimization of problem-solving. The Like button seems to be part of the same trend. Let's call it the Industrialization of the Ineffable.... [..] Read complete article
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To tweet, perchance to dream
The future, it seems, is too much for Nick Bilton. The New York Times's in-house webstud, and author of the book I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works, had something of a Joycean epiphany last week. Perched atop a rocky cliff, watching the sun dissolve majestically into the Pacific, he immediately did, he writes, "what any normal person would do in 2011": he whipped out his iPhone and started [..] Read complete article
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