J.D. Lasica is doing a brave thing: he’s put his new book, Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music, and Television online at both a wiki and a weblog, and then has invited all of us to join him in editing it. He writes: Goal: In the spirit of open media and participatory journalism, I’d like to use this wiki to […]
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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had a call tonight. All the person said on the line was, ‘You are nothing’, and then hung up. Odd sort of call for a crank. It came when I was in the middle of cutting more paper for another one of the books I’m making. Each of these […]
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Bookbinding and Disappointment
I had a call tonight. All the person said on the line was, ‘You are nothing’, and then hung up. Odd sort of call for a crank. It came when I was in the middle of cutting more paper for another one of the books I’m making. Each of these books is a gift for […]
Julie Lerman is doing a phenomenal job of taking on the discussion about women and technology. She has a web site with references, and also brought this up in a recent article where she was honored as .NET Rock Star (It’s funny, but Julie was also angry when Microsoft came out with .NET. She got over her anger. I turned […]
A month or two ago, Steve at LanguageHat pointed out a New York show consisting of Art Deco book bindings by Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler. I was mesmerized at the beauty of the bindings, and the concept that book binding could actually be considered an art form. I’m not an arts and crafts type of person. I don’t […]