Top articles:
- 12/11 The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
Firing a laser through a cloud of ideas. - 10/11 The New Value of Text
There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right? - 3/11 Seven posts about the future
Nostalgia, fiction, sharing and stories. - 17/2/11 Publishing Experiences
Why publishers should reconsider what they do. - 25/10/10 Network Realism
William Gibson and new forms of Fiction. - 5/10/10 Walter Benjamin's Aura: Open Bookmarks and the form of the eBook
The future of social reading. - 6/9/10 On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography
Visualising archives and historical process.
Recent posts from the blog:
- 16/1/12 2012: Let’s Go
Janus-like glancing forwards and back. - 15/12/11 Hard Times: For Our Times
50 Pirate Works for Charles Dickens. - 5/12/11 The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
Firing a laser through a cloud of ideas. - 28/11/11 On Now and Next
A glanceable for radio. - 1/11/11 Everything is the same only different
A talk from Books in Browsers on augmentation over enhancement. - 5/10/11 The New Value of Text
There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right? - 19/9/11 Publishing Next: India
A brief report on ebooks and the future of publishing in the subcontinent. - 13/9/11 Secret Servers
The architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters. - 8/9/11 The System of the World: Rorschmap Redux
On the insistence of the network. - 30/8/11 Won’t somebody think of the children?
On Laptops & Looms, and generations.
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Booktwo.org is the blog of James Bridle, a book and technology specialist with specific expertise in planning and producing web and new media projects for clients in publishing and the arts. If you'd like to hire me, have a look at my CV and portfolio, and feel free to get in touch.
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