Bloom's Day
September 2012
45 posts
August 2012
40 posts
“Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.”
—Novelist Paul Auster, speaking with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
“And so, in the last two years a simple, strong truth has emerged: The future of books is built upon networked platforms, not islands. More than any surface advancement — interface, navigational, typographic, or similar — platforms define how we read going forward. Platforms shape systems — those of production, consumption, distribution — and all critical changes happening in digital books and publishing happen within systems. Post-artifact books and publishing2 is not just about text on screens.”
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Platforming Books — by Craig Mod
Interesting piece about how mere words no longer make a “book,” and how we need to think harder about how the way we deliver those mere words needs to involve such things as figuring out where we’re going to finance them, access them, what they’ll look on a particular platform, how they’ll connect to other related information and resources, and how people are going to be able to share and talk about those words on that and other platforms.
It’s a lot more complicated, but a lot more interesting, seems to me, as a long-time trafficker in mere words.
Flavorpill's 10 free downloads of the week →
flavorwire.com
Flavorpill continues its public service of spotlighting 10 worthy (free) songs available online for the download. This week’s includes a (very good) Jens Lekman song that was only available on KCRW for the day, and another that’s already maxed out its download limit. But it also includes a most interesting 10-song mix tape of Wolfhaus that kinda makes up for the others. And, of course, it’s hard to beat the price for a little music exploration.
New Digg Vs. Reddit Vs. BuzzFeed: Your Mind On Viral Content | TechCrunch →
techcrunch.com
Useful side-by-side of “social reader” sites Reddit, (new) Digg & Buzzfeed.
Still like Reddit most, and think the inscrutable Digg is way too proud of its dedicated efforts to be useless/unwelcoming to motivated sharers (er, social media marketing types, etc.). Buzzfeed is lots of clever jokes, but not sure there’s much there there when you look hard (as this piece also suggests).
What do you use of these programs? Any of them? All of them?
