duplex translation
The
epic vacuum machine translations augmented by site hacking continues. Also go to our
dumpster right here at FotB.
Post-it Renaissance
New Post-it innovations
tag the real world and enhance student fashion. These things cannot be used on emails .they only work on realia. Is there a shadow enclave returning to embodied conciousness? What if negotiations of the materiality of the paper book are displaced negotiations of the embodiment of the person?
For a majestic study of the topic, with Post-it Flags on hand, read, van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, University of Edinburgh, 2006.
quarter bet
Donít believe Google when they say they will scan, process and post out of copyright books in less than 10 years. They have done 100,000 so far and will probably give up before they reach a half million. The reason is that Google is not that interested in accessing books. Goggle is interested in assuming the role of research libraries.
Donít believe Google when they say they will scan, process and post out of copyright books for free. Libraries will have to preserve the screen based books and they will need to do this by dividing resources. And donít even ask about free access to print masters.
Do make Google work to promote librarians and acknowledge their growing print collections with their useful classification systems.
moving books
Two animations depicting books by Barb Tetenbaum prove that beauty can survive format translation.
(book one) and
(book two)