Print and Electronic Text Convergence

[C-2-C Project] Within this volume we look specifically at the changing definition of a book. A book is no longer a tangible thing; a book is what a book does. It is an information architecture. We examine the various manifestations of electronic book readers and imminent technologies, such electronic ink, including a case study on the use of ebook reading devices by a lending library, and speculate about other uses of such devices. We see the convergence of print and etext - manifestations of the same thing - electronically stored text, with the difference demonstrated only in their final rendering. We look at changes in print technologies and the shift in mindset necessary to accommodate emergent forms of digital text - as information services within a product-service system, the changing shape of digital design and changes in printing technologies from letterpress to the rise of digital printing.

 The disorder in the RSS

[rodcorp] There are now a few websites that took books from eg Project Gutenberg and re-presented them in a page-a-day format on a weblog or via RSS. Examples: Joyce's Ulysses (from Jason White), Joyce's Finnegans Wake (from Michael Brewster), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (from Matt Webb), and what's perhaps the grand-daddy of the form, Samuel Pepys's Diary (from Phil Gyford, which now has 13,000+ annotations). There's something interesting about seeing pages placed next to each other in a newsreader. This next to that, here and now: random correspondences, connections, comparisons.
There will obviously be a huge number of these "correspondences" (particularly if you're looking for them), but perhaps there's mileage in going further, in remixing people's books and notebooks, or at least in providing a pick-any-X-books service to make a DIY RSS page-a-day feed.

by Paul | 10 August 2004 |  Discuss [0]

 This is not a Magazine

[This is Compendium #3: CHAOS HAPPENS*]
This is not a magazine.
This is a book.
This is internet on paper.
276 Pages change shape and layer like browser windows.
330 Artworks interweave, hyperlink, and flow.
60 artists make Chaos Happen*

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by Paul | 06 August 2004 |  Discuss [0]

 Internet Art by Rachel Greene

[New book @ Amazon.com] Rachel Greene is Editorial Coordinator and a director of Rhizome.org, an online resource and platform for new media art, and a curatorial fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
The diverse forms of Internet art and the tools and equipment used to create them are discussed and placed within the wider cultural context.

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by Paul | 27 July 2004 |  Discuss [0]

 Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge

[Google] BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use, even a child can operate it.
Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere -- even sitting in an armchair by the fire -- yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disc. Here's how it works: BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information.

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 Books24x7 announces book nominations

[PR Newswire] Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft PLC and the developer of online Referenceware(TM) for IT and business professionals, today announced the nominations of its third annual Referenceware Excellence Awards. The awards will recognize the most widely used computer technology and business books available through Books24x7, which offers subscription clients detailed online searches to more than 5,000 unabridged IT and business books.

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