cascade
A very active event and trend mapper is
Fade Theory
hand on the trottle, eye on the rail
“A very entertaining podcast by SF writer, Net activist, and uber-blogger Cory Doctorow covering copyright, concentration, print-on-demand, the future of the codex and more. The problem with electronic books, he suggests, is in part that they are extremely good at distracting you – you need ‘monkish, iron self-discipline’ to read a long work online. Hence he suggests, one of the best things about the codex is precisely that it isn’t electronic – it can’t distract you with emails, phone calls, IMs, RSS and all the rest, and is therefore the best tool available to help a reader concentrate on a sustained piece of writing.”(podcast link at)
Institute for Future of the Book
letterpress day
The first day of the Historical Printing Seminar and then job printing and Linotype composition in Homestead. The connection with the past is completely surreal but the connection with the future is immediate. How better to understand the momentum toward keyboard prompting, automated production cycles and efficient communication. And the charm is that revolutions of media history have proved themselves as additions, not subtractions, from richness of content.
link logic
Library Preservation has kindly linked to FotB, as a reader choice