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Stories our tech objects tell us.

The following a response to Brian J. McNely’s post, “Technologies and Attachment,” at his personal research blog, 5000. The version below is about 20% longer than the one I left at Brian’s blog, but there’s still plenty left to be said. His post is smart, thoughtful, and helpful in getting me thinking about my relationship…

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Book Histories; Book Futures

“The Future of the Book” (according to IDEO)

Checkout my post at “The Scholar Electric,” the blogging component of Computers and Composition Digital Press

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Stunning digital text from Alex Iten, “Couch”

  I can think of no better evidence for the argument that you don’t have to make something “pretty” or “polished” for it to be incredible. Insight. Something to say. Patience. Courage. Thanks for posting this, Alex. I wish everyone I know could see this. Check out more of his work here.

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Book Histories; Book Futures, textbooks

Highlight: digital textbooks (and Apple’s plan to ‘revolutionize’ them).

Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution:   Sure, textbooks offer easier-to-digest summaries of the content, geared to the particular grade level of the student. They offer diagrams and illustrations and review questions and a glossary. But textbooks are always an assembly from a variety of sources, geared towards a classroom setting where the teacher leads…

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#gettingstarted: Thoughts on some Fundamentals of Digital Textuality

Trying to become a more regular blogger. Trying to work with some video posts; well, I guess they’re going to be more like video posts with some commentary. For the next several posts, I’m going to be working with a variety of different hardware, software, and distribution set ups. Just to see how they work…

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Working with Three Monitors: A Workspace Reflection

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Unboxing: Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Tree of Codes”

Here’s a the trailer for the book that got me...

Book Futurist, or Book Forecaster?

Short post. I just want to clarify something about the...

Unboxing McSweeney’s Human Head: Issue #36

Yeah, I know. Turn the camera sideways. You can’t honestly...

Another Plea to Stop Criticizing Ebooks Because You’re Nostalgic about Dead-tree Books

When the eReader craze first started a few years ago,...

Great Storytelling Example: RSA’s Interp of Stephen Johnson’s Talk

I ran across this recently, and can’t stop thinking about...