book blog
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book blog.
store for hand made objects
Etsy “your place to buy and sell all things handmade” has a book and zine department. Look through a crack in the screen and see the glimmerings of post-digital enclaves. Be there and be square.
aic 36
The 36th annual meeting of the AIC was a wonderful pleasure. The conversation was intensive and productive, the General sessions contrasted meaningfully with the array of ten specialty group presentations and increasing PowerPoint expertise is finally producing highly efficient and engaging presentations.
The capacity of conservation practice to lend historical perspective and a sense of cultural persistence and risk was just as engaging as the allure of new methods and instrumentation. It is actually surprising to realize that such an introversive profession can be so loaded with social implication, especially as the wider connectors to tangible collections are obscured by popularities of their screen simulations.
The students are now the “big heads” and the older generation now relegates itself to a ceremonial presence except when irritated by vanities repeated. The loony certification tableau, honorific receptions, and a too swanky officer corps, entertained the old wranglers.
self-indexing or self-authentication
Digitization of paper books has a particular advantage as the bit stream processing renders both content and indexing. Content and indexing actually merge into a single commodity, dissolving individual books and library classification systems.
Physical books also merge delivery components, but they merge content with authentication. This attribute is contrasted with digital systems that easily self-tabulate or self-index, but cannot self-authenticate. Distrust of touch screen voting or the failures of 2010 census automation both exemplify risks of focus on content and index merge alone. Perhaps we should consider attributes carefully as we select between functionalities of screen books or paper books.