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26/3/11 #wikileakspaper
On printing things out.

24/3/11 The House of Wisdom
On the transmission of the classics, then and now.

24/3/11 An Elixir of Reminding
Borges and Sharing; Instagram and Death.

23/3/11 Stop Lying About What You Do
Pretending will not save us.

21/3/11 Starpunk
Hollowing out spaces of possibility.

20/3/11 Hauntological Futures
On the attempts to rehabilitate nostalgia.

14/3/11 HG Wells on Newspapers
Writing about technologies.

17/2/11 Publishing Experiences
Excerpted from my talk from Tools Of Change, on why publishers should reconsider what they do.

7/2/11 Profanity in Art Criticism
Waxing lyrical about Caravaggio in Milan.

25/1/11 Really Interesting
On joining the Really Interesting Group.

19/1/11 Oblique Reading: a Tutorial
Strategies for exploring books.

19/1/11 Interview at The Age of Glass
On Italy, ebooks and Open Bookmarks

4/1/11 Electronic idiocy: VAT and ebooks (and art and libraries)

31/12/10 2010: The Booktwo/STML Yearnotes

9/12/10 The City and the Sea
Art, design and inspiration.

7/12/10 The beauty of engineers: Google Books.app

3/12/10 Selfish vs Social: Open Bookmarks and Casual Strategies

3/12/10 Samuel Pepys and the POD Diary
Phil Gyford, who amongst many other things curates the excellent and veritable http://www.pepysdiary.com/, is rightfully annoyed at HarperCollins for pulling a bait-and-switch with their print-on-demand reissues: The new volume, again on the right, is much whiter. It’s only when you compare standard books with really white paper that you realise they’re usually a bit yellow, […]

30/11/10 Romance has lived too long upon this river: A London Companion
I’ve been playing with glanceables and synecdoches for a while now, until I came up with something that had to be got out of my head, and into the world. So here it is: Romance has lived too long upon this river; a single-serving web page that tells you how high the tide is at […]

25/11/10 Two Things (Gibson TTS and Fictional Memory Palaces)
BBC7 is currently doing Gibson’s Pattern Recognition as this week’s Sci-Fi serial. If you’re in the UK you can listen via iPlayer. It’s being read by Lorelei King, “one of the most successful and accomplished American actresses working in the UK today.” She’s good at voices but (and, Lorelei, this is no criticism if you’re […]

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