{"id":172,"date":"2005-05-12T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2005-05-12T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T17:46:21","slug":"the_blog_and_the_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/the_blog_and_the_book\/","title":{"rendered":"the blog and the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interesting experiments going on with blogs and books..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordmunger.com\">Dave Munger<\/a> is taking the blog on a test drive as an ebook reader, putting together what he calls a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wordmunger.com\/moby\/?order=ASC\">blook<\/a>.&#8221; To show he means business, he&#8217;s chosen <i>Moby Dick<\/i> as the pilot text (but before starting, he&#8217;s working out formatting issues with Melville&#8217;s short story <i>Bartleby, the Scrivener<\/i>). I&#8217;m intrigued by the idea of using the blog form to generate discussion of a text &#8211; breaking it up into serial posts, jotting notes and analysis in the comment stream. It could make for a nice communal reading experience, as in a lit class, or virtual book club. It&#8217;s a game: drop the book in the blog and it ripples; different subjective worlds (of the readers) converge and collide. It&#8217;s very suggestive to combine this most conversational of media with the frozen, linear novel. For solitary reading, however, I&#8217;m not convinced that this would be a useful format.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/niro.typepad.com\/spark_armada\/\">Spark Armada<\/a>, a &#8220;digital lifestyle, social software, creativity and science fiction conversation hub&#8221; in Israel, recently kicked off the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/niro.typepad.com\/spark_armada\/2005\/05\/blog_on_a_books.html\">Keyboard<\/a>&#8221; project, inviting bloggers to post stories on their sites that will be considered for inclusion in a print anthology. The idea seems to be to use the blogosphere&#8217;s mode of interwoven conversation as a way to generate creative work. The endpoint may be a conventional printed object, but Keyboard is interested in taking a different route in getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interesting experiments going on with blogs and books.. Dave Munger is taking the blog on a test drive as an ebook reader, putting together what he calls a &#8220;blook.&#8221; To show he means business, he&#8217;s chosen Moby Dick as the pilot text (but before starting, he&#8217;s working out formatting issues with Melville&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}