{"id":1345,"date":"2009-04-01T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2009-04-01T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T16:54:39","slug":"variously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/variously\/","title":{"rendered":"notes from around the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>On April 26 in Los Angeles, haudenschildGarage presents a performance entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haudenschildgarage.com\/hgblog\/\">The Last Book<\/a>, an &#8220;attempt to resurrect the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, the new technologies, to conjure a future as the past in reverse&#8221;. The artists and writers involved include Steve Fagin, Mary Gaitskill, Mian Mian, Leslie Thornton, Davina Semo, and Greg Landau; their site has more information.<\/li>\n<li>Max Bruinsma has an interesting essay at Limited Language entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.limitedlanguage.org\/discussion\/index.php\/archive\/typographic-design-for-new-reading-spaces\/\">&#8220;Typographic Design for New Reading Spaces&#8221;<\/a>, addressing the issue of designing for screen reading and why text on screens is still generally so ugly. <\/li>\n<li>Mediabistro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/web_tech\/tina_pohlman_creates_her_own_new_publishing_gig_112659.asp?c=rss\">points out<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moulinarn.com\/\">Moulinarn Mobile Books<\/a> (website under construction), devoted to publishing content specifically for the iPhone platform. Their content doesn&#8217;t seem especially interesting, but it does look like it&#8217;s not a generic e-book reader.<\/li>\n<li>Those with a subscription to the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> might be interested in this <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v55\/i31\/31a00102.htm\">article<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otal.umd.edu\/~mgk\/\">Matthew Kirschenbaum<\/a> work on writers&#8217; digital archives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com\/\">DiRT<\/a> is the Digital Research Tools wiki, a collection of useful resources for scholars doing research digitally. Most of the tools they point out are open-source; it&#8217;s nice to have all these things in one place. More advanced users might look at <a href=\"http:\/\/xtf.wiki.sourceforge.net\/ \">XTF<\/a>, an interesting new public domain extensible text framework designed to make archives digitally accessible.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/professordvd.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/02\/10-40-70-oceans-twelve.html\">Digital Poetics<\/a> blog suggests a new method of film criticism: grabbing a screen shot at 10 minutes, 40 minutes, and 70 minutes into the movie &amp; talking about what&#8217;s on the screen at that instant and how it relates to the rest of the movie.<\/li>\n<li>Dene Grigar&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/thread\/technocapitalism\/invigorating\">&#8220;Electronic Literature: Where Is It?&#8221;<\/a> has been up at the <em>Electronic Book Review<\/em> for a while, but it&#8217;s still worth a look. I&#8217;m not entirely sure it will convince skeptics, but it is a good overview of the present of electronic literature and its place in the academy.<\/li>\n<li>Brazilian novelist Claudio Soares has put his 2006 novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pontolit.com.br\/sd8\/\"><em>Santos Dumont N&uacute;mero 8: O Livro das Supersti&ccedil;&otilde;es<\/em><\/a> into the Institute&#8217;s CommentPress. He&#8217;s given all of the characters <a href=\"http:\/\/crowdstatus.com\/Santos-Dumont-Numero-8crowd.aspx\">Twitter accounts<\/a>; an impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/25890\/view\/#112\">online presentation<\/a> introduces the online version of the novel, which looks to be a fairly serious undertaking although put together with free tools. Once again, I wish I spoke Portuguese. (<strong>Edit:<\/strong> Claudio Soares suggests three auto-translated links&nbsp;&ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g0r\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g0r<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g0x\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g0x<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g17\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/2g17<\/a>&nbsp;&ndash; for English speakers who wish to get a better idea of the project.)<\/li>\n<li>And finally, if:book London presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songsofimaginationanddigitisation.net\/\">Songs of Imagination and Digitisation<\/a>, a variety of new media responses to the work of William Blake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26 in Los Angeles, haudenschildGarage presents a performance entitled The Last Book, an &#8220;attempt to resurrect the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, the new technologies, to conjure a future as the past in reverse&#8221;. 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