Posted in Reading, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore
[EPUB is] a free and open standard format created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and it’s designed for reflowable content that can be optimized to whatever device is being used to read a book file. The IDPF has championed EPUB as a single format that [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Social Software on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
BookMooch
Give books away. Get books you want.
Social media as a way of trading analog media. Perfect.
[via Andrew Howat]
Posted in People, Reading on Sep 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Copy Editing at The New Yorker Magazine. An Interview With Mary Norris
Andy Ross does a great job of asking just the right questions of longtime New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris. As someone who has read this magazine for many years it’s always interesting to have a peek behind the scenes.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Events, People, Places, Politics, Reading on Sep 8th, 2009 No Comments »
International Literacy Day
September 8 was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO on November 17, 1965. It was first celebrated in 1966. Its aim is to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. On International Literacy Day each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally.
The [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse
This is a fascinating post and the comment thread is equally fascinating.
The 25 most looked up words on the NY Times web site vs. the 25 most looked up words on Dictionary.com. There is no overlap.
The comment thread digs a bit into this class [...]
Posted in Photographers, Reading on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The Photographer, Into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevre’s photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert, tells the [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Reading, Stories on Feb 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
OnPoint had a great show on Friday: Envisioning the Afterlife in which the neuroscientist David Eagleman talked about his new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
David Eagleman is a leading edge neuroscientist who has written a collection of the most imaginative essays on what various takes on an afterlife might look like. This show [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Tools on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2’s read-aloud feature
Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader.
Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device’s controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature for individual [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Photographers, Reading on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Slate has a wonderful slide show on the historic road trip of Robert Frank: Robert Frank’s The Americans.
In the summer of 1955, Robert Frank, a 30-year-old Jewish Swiss émigré, set out on a nearly yearlong car trip across America with his handheld Leica camera and a Guggenheim Fellowship “to see,” as he put it, “what [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Reading on Dec 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell has a great pice in the November 10 issue of The New Yorker on Sidney Weinberg and Goldman Sachs: The Uses of Adversity. In it he discusses how some successful people have used being outsiders (class, race, religion, and even being learning disabled) as ways to affect change, do business, and get things [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Reading on Jul 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens
One of my favorite New Yorker writers is about to come out with a book of photographs and an essay on burdock leaves. I can’t wait.
Posted in Movies, People, Reading on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Success Story 2
David A. Price has written The Pixar Touch, about the history of Pixar and how Steve Jobs turned a small investment into one of the most important movie studios of our time.
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Social Software on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Small Publishers Feel Power of Amazon’s ‘Buy’ Button
Oh boy, Amazon throws weight around with “One-Click.” I think they also do it with Amazon Prime although I may be mistaken.
As a consumer who buys most of what I buy online, I’m always torn between Amazon and other online retailers who have less streamlined buying processes. I [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Reading on Apr 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Poetry Archive is a collection of poets reading their own work.
Check out Allen Ginsberg reading “America.”
I’m a stenographer of my mind. I write down what passes through it, not what goes on around me. I’m a poet.” – Allen Ginsberg
My only complaint is that RealPlayer is the only way to use this site.
Given [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Humor, People, Reading on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
New York Times Profile of Cartoonist Al Jaffee
I grew up with Al Jaffee’s “fold-ins” in Mad Magazine. For the most part they were corny, even to me as a kid but I still folded almost every one just to see the punchline.
If you don’t know what a fold-in is, check out the Times’ interactive feature: [...]
Posted in Reading, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jan 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Amazon to Buy Audible for $300 million
Oh boy, a monopoly on books. Soon the Kindle will be the only way to read a digital book. On the other hand, maybe not, maybe they’ll continue to support iTunes and computers. Hope so.
Posted in Adventure, Places, Reading on Jan 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Wojtek has a nice collection of images from a trip to the Northern Areas of Pakistan, including cities and the Karakorum mountain region.
I’m reading the book Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time and it’s reminding me of my fascination with big mountain climbing [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell has written an insightful essay and book review on how the work of James R. Flynn has turned the IQ measurement world on its head.
If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate, what explains the Flynn effect—the steady rise in scores across generations?
Gladwell is one of my favorite New Yorker writers and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading on Jan 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
Great essay by Heather Champ: How to Read The New Yorker in 10 Easy Steps.
I’ve been getting and reading The New Yorker for longer than Heather and John (below) combined (probably) and I’ve watched the magazine change over time with new writers, ads, layout, and feel.
In the early years I went through it fast, got [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Reading on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Raw Vision: The world’s only international magazine of outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art.
Raw Vision remains the world’s only international journal of the art of the ‘unknown geniuses’ who are the creators of Outsider Art. Untrained, unschooled and uninfluenced by the art world, the work of these artists continues to stun and amaze. They [...]
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