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lost recording of Douglas Adams, and, Flash in the pan
Douglas Adams recorded this (slightly hyperbolic) audio piece back in 1993 to promote the Voyager Expanded Books series. On “getting the book invented”: I recently saw the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
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ron silliman: “the chinese notebook”
5. Language is, first of all, a political question. Like the problem of hunger in the world, the problem with publishing in the United States isn’t one of supply but one of distribution. What’s worried...
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a book is not a text: the noise made by people
Momus – a.k.a. Nick Currie, electronic folk musician, Wired columnist, and inveterate blogger – has posted an interesting short video on his blog, Click Opera. He’s teaching a class on electronic...
View Articleblogs — trying to fit round pegs into square holes
i’ve been without an internet connection for a few days. was catching up on if:book posts and finding myself delighted by the wonderful range of interesting posts my colleagues had managed in just a...
View Articlepremature burial, or, the electronic word in time and space
We were talking yesterday (and Bob earlier) about how to better organize content on if:book – how to highlight active discussion threads, or draw attention to our various categories. Something more...
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ted nelson & the ideologies of documents
I. Nelson’s criticism Ted Nelson (introduced last week by Ben) is a lonely revolutionary marching a lonely march, and whenever he’s in the news mockery is heard. Some of this is with good reason:...
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two newspapers
I picked up The New York Times from outside my door this morning knowing that the lead headline was going to be wrong. I still read the print paper every morning – I do read the electronic version, but...
View Articleharper-collins half-heartedly puts a book online
As noted in The New York Times, Harper-Collins has put the text of Bruce Judson’s Go It Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own online; ostensibly this is a pilot for more books...
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who really needs to turn the pages?
The following post comes from my friend Sally Northmore, a writer and designer based in New York who lately has been interested in things like animation, video game theory, and (right up our alley) the...
View Articleserial killer
Alex Lencicki is a blogger with experience serializing novels online. Today, in a comment to my Slate networked book post, he links to a wonderful diatribe on his site deconstructing the myriad ways in...
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