I can’t remember how I ran across Markson’s novel This Is Not A Novel, but I found it so fascinating an experiment that I scooped up and read his other novels that followed the same disconnected yet mosaic-like form. Colin Marshall has written an appreciation of Markson, who recently died, that takes in all of [...]
Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines. Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats. The best suit for your body type. Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and [...]
Tagged digitization, libraries, Marginal Revolution, Proto-scholarNarrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches. First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist’s imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb. “Once you’ve restricted yourself to information that turns up in Google searches, you [...]
First heard of the “Is Google Making Us Stupid/Killing Literature” foomfahrah via this Mark Hurst post and this follow-up. Kevin Kelly was quite a player in the debate also, here and here, and all the above links will let you read all sides to your heart’s desire. Clay Shirky’s post questioning the “cult of literature” [...]
Even a tech writer learns to use dashed lines for impromptu diagrams, but it takes a designer to delineate more of its uses. (I probably got this link from the essential xblog, which is a must-read in my RSS library.) Convenience and impermanence. But look at the size of that keyboard! And her happy smile! [...]
Tagged Oddments, Wallpaper