LongNow still there
In another new year threshold the
Long Now Foundation is still now. Of especial interest is the on-line archive of 1000 languages; the
Rosetta project.
happy Umbrella new year
2002 marks the 25th anniversary year for Judith Hoffberg’s
Umbrella. This awesome critical and poetic quarterly review of readable art will continue its print format through the year and then, perhaps, threshold to another delivery format.
***what’s next? FotB knows!
We earned enough in two weeks to buy the machine. Next we are going to refine our 9×6 book products and look for alternatives sites such as coffee houses and book stores. Another possible convergence is book vending with the PoD people.
As Walt Crawford reports in the January American Libraries, the Print-on-Demand publishing technologies will most invigorate local and regional authorship. The standard, GenericBrand, paperback output is just the thing for vending and vending is just the thing for a low-overhead, ultra-local retailing.
Its another scenario of the future of the print reading mode. Meanwhile, with the screen read ebook dead, the audio/ebook is fast emerging in the oral/verbal reading mode.
(that’s Tatiana Ginsberg of the “Structure of the Hand Made Book” class at the vending machine)