{"id":1338,"date":"2009-03-04T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2009-03-04T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T10:27:57","slug":"various_things_around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/various_things_around\/","title":{"rendered":"wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Arc90 has released <a href=\"http:\/\/lab.arc90.com\/experiments\/readability\/\">Readability<\/a>, a bookmark that strips away most of the cruft that generally surrounds text on the Web to focus on the main text column. It doesn&#8217;t work on every website, of course, but it does point out how messy our reading environments generally are. (An analogy might be drawn to Kenneth Goldsmith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/epc.buffalo.edu\/authors\/goldsmith\/greenwood.html\"><em>Day<\/em><\/a>, in which the poet transcribed every word in a single day&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>; set like a novel, the result was a 836-page book. A good deal of the act of reading is knowing what to ignore.) It seems a reader-oriented version of the full-screen writing environments in tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogbaysoftware.com\/products\/writeroom\">WriteRoom<\/a> or <a \"href=http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/scrivener.html\">Scrivener<\/a>. Probably also of interest as a model for making websites more accessible to the blind: this would make sites much easier for a screen reader to read.<\/li>\n<li>John Willinsky has a <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0012.103\">paper<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Electronic Publishing<\/em> entitled &#8220;Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press&#8221;: he presents a very detailed model for how academic publishing could work online which should be read by everyone interested in the subject.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/exoskeleton-johannes.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/e-litearture.html\">interesting blog entry<\/a> by Johannes G&ouml;rannson about the Stephanie Strickland piece on electronic poetry noted here recently. G&ouml;rannson notes that network-based writing practices (like those of inveterate prankster Tao Lin) seem more radical than the multimedia works than Strickland presents, which generally don&#8217;t acknowledge community ad the network.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Green has a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/noggs.typepad.com\/the_reading_experience\/2009\/03\/my-very-last-post-on-the-book-business-ever.html\">well-reasoned<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/noggs.typepad.com\/the_reading_experience\/2009\/03\/responding-to-my-previous-post-ted-striphas-clarifies-his-argument-about-the-need-to-help-people-fit-reading-better-into-th.html\">posts<\/a> on ideas about how text should be written differently for the perceived problem of the lack of attention. Green doesn&#8217;t believe that breaking books into smaller chunks (smaller chapters, smaller paragraphs) is likely to help anything; to argue this is to miss the point of what books can do.<\/li>\n<li>Have we mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/textsound.org\/\"><em>TextSound<\/em><\/a> here? It&#8217;s a fairly new journal presenting sound poetry; what&#8217;s interesting to me is the sheer volume of material that can be presented in it. Their second issue would take up 6 CDs, if presented that way; on the web, projects can swell to their own sizes. Artist Paul Chan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalphilistine.com\/alexandria\/index.html\">My Own Private Alexandria<\/a> might be mentioned in the same breath: Chan has created his own library of audio books, nicely tagged.<\/li>\n<li>If you happen to be in Oakville, Ontario, you could do worse than to pay a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakvillegalleries.com\/current-centennial.htm\">&#8220;Novel Ideas&#8221;<\/a>, an exhibition on the changing book at the Oakville Galleries. <a href=\"\/itinplace\">Alex Itin<\/a> is showing his <em>Orson Whales<\/em>; the other work also looks interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arc90 has released Readability, a bookmark that strips away most of the cruft that generally surrounds text on the Web to focus on the main text column. It doesn&#8217;t work on every website, of course, but it does point out how messy our reading environments generally are. 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