February 2012
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“[tim] barrett’s connection to […] old papers was becoming more than simply...”
– — from a moving, compelling profile of papermaker and fulbright/macarthur winner tim barrett in the nyt. click to read the rest: Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization?
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“some things seem to designed to do their jobs perfectly, and the old-fashioned...”
– from “the beauty of the printed book”, on nytimes.com
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“… the ai virtual assistant is the interaction substrate of the digital...”
– — from siri is only the beginning, a techcrunch guest post by the ceo and co-founder of siri (no, not “inventor”, and no, that’s not steve jobs).
January 2012
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Watch_the fantastic flying books of mr. morris lessmore_ has been nominated for an oscar!
(moonbot studios)
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“the london booktrades project is being built from a database designed to contain...”
– — from the introduction to the london book trades wiki. awesome stuff!
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“from the printer’s error, 2001.
fellow compositors
and pressworkers!...”
– — copyright 2001 by aaron fogel. the printer’s error, 2001 miami university press, oxford, ohio. all rights reserved.
(via my romantic tryst with destiny)
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“hello simran,
(your book(s) asked to write you a personal note - it seemed...”
– this is what a shipping notice from better world books looks like. i can’t decide if it’s cheesy or cute. thoughts?
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“… what is remarkable beyond the store’s [shakespeare &...”
– — from a short trevor butterworth piece, entitled as the age of the physical book retreats, the cult of the physical book advances, in forbes. the piece seems a bit confuddled to me (what, exactly, is the single main sentiment being conveyed about george whitman of shakespeare & co. in...
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eight bay area startups disrupting the worlds of... →
a little something to kickstart 2012: a year of change (or so i hope).
December 2011
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“while rim’s certainly not the only apple competitor caught with its pants...”
– — i’ve only ever used one non-ipad tablet: the motorola xoom. i’ve never used the playbook. but a proprietary enterprise tablet without the company’s proprietary enterprise apps, competing with a monster consumer tablet that comes fully loaded? what were they thinking!?
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“for decades mr. whitman provided food and makeshift beds to young aspiring...”
– — george whitman, paris bookseller and cultural beacon, is dead at 98 (on nytimes)
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“lulla said, “after observing how gadget-savvy students have become and how...”
– this is rubbish on so many levels. is asking 850 sets of parents to spend rs. 40,000 each the best way to ensure students’ content retention? why was this a unilateral decision? why ipads specifically? just because students are familiar with gadgets, does this mean you encourage buying them en...
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“while the missed call system is increasingly fodder for entrepreneurs, the...”
– —hah, of course. jugaad wins again. (from india’s “missed call” mobile ecosystem on gigaom)
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“there is no point in fighting [amazon] or explaining to them that we should be...”
– — from “amazon’s jungle logic”, on nytimes.com
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“even while hundreds of classic texts were becoming available online, free of...”
– from “we’re still in love with books” (the chronicle of higher education)
November 2011
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rare books in bombay colleges to be digitised →
better news than http://bibliotech.tumblr.com/post/12902270813/patnamanuscripts, at least…
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“patna university library in-charge jayadeo mishra, when contacted, said that...”
– — from a times of india article entitled “over 5,000 manuscripts decay in patna university library”. this is so miserable, and so infuriating.
bihar is not one of india’s more fortunate states; while it used to be home to some of the world’s best universities, and was...
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“both craiglist and gmail are wildly successful at what they do, and they’ve both...”
– — from GOOD magazine, which i am increasingly drawn to after first discovering a copy in susan’s bathroom this summer! i’m not sure i’m satisfied with any of the answers, and maybe the real truth also has something to do with the fact that craigslist is a skeletally-staffed...
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"google’s chief works to trim a bloated ship" →
so here’s the deal. at the end of 2010 they announced that they wanted to hire 6,000 people within the next 12 months; now, they’re downsizing their focus and losing people in the bargain. funny how fast fortunes can change in silicon valley…
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steve jobs gets his revenge: adobe kills off... →
(… well, except not really *killing* — see the comment about air being a runtime environment for flash, flex, html and ajax. and except that “current configurations” that depend on flash will continue to receive support.)
but still, this is big news, since the geek community’s perception of the iphone was partly influenced by lack of flash support (who remembers the...
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“once you allow that some glovemaker’s son from stratford with a...”
– — from the hilarious/incisive ‘anonymous’ and the shakespeare conspiracy theory that won’t die (wapo)
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