Posted in Events, Movies, People, Reading on Jul 9th, 2010 No Comments »
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Anniversary: Anna Quindlen On The Greatness Of Scout The book To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, this is its 50th year in print. The film was made in 1962. Every kid has had that house in the neighborhood that your friends would dare you to knock at on Halloween. [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Reading, Social Software on May 19th, 2010 3 Comments »
CBS Legal Department Sends Cease and Desist to 48 HR Magazine Totally stupid. Give me a ###ing break CBS. It’s a great magazine. I bought a copy right away and it’s well designed (I disagree with Carr that the layouts are “somewhat rudimentary”): the design reminds me of The Whole Earth Catalog which was a [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Reading, Social Software on May 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Get Your eBook in the Apple iBookstore This is a fascinating post and the comment thread is excellent as well, especially Marc’s posted on April 4th. It’s going to take a bit of time for this to sort out but when it does I think it’s going to be quite a great thing for self-published [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, iPad, Objects, Reading on May 8th, 2010 14 Comments »
I knew it was just a matter of time before I bought an iPad although I thought it would be a bit more time, like maybe a year so I could get version two. At the same time that I’ve learned about the technical intricacies of computers I’ve gotten the most out of them when [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Reading on Apr 7th, 2010 No Comments »
My iPhone has revolutionised my reading So why I had found it easier to read from my iPhone? First, an ordinary page of text is split into about four pages. The spacing seems generous and because of this I don’t get lost on the page. Second, the handset’s brightness makes it easier to take in [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Reading on Mar 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Kindle for Mac Install this free application on your Macintosh and connect to your Kindle account at Amazon to read books, just like on a kindle. Frankly, I’m amazed it took them this long to do this. I hope Apple does it with their iBooks application.
Posted in iPad, Reading, Tech Stuff 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 powerful [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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