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• Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned - Reporting back on that Wired/crowdsourcing adventure from last week. Not unlike similar views of Million Penguins/We>Me.
• Divina Satira: Ted Nelson, Google and publishing - “Google, with their stated intention of organising the world’s information… have realised that through helping individuals to do this that they can help to add to… the seed out of which their company grew: the Page Rank algorithm.” (See also following links)
• Transclusion: Fixing Electronic Literature - Ted Nelson talks to Google Engineers about publishing
• Project Xanadu - “This system of literature (the “Xanadu Docuverse”) must allow people to create virtual copies (”transclusions”) of any existing collection of information in the system regardless of ownership.”
• HP to present “ebook reader” featuring intuitive interface - A little old, but we haven’t featured an ebook reader for a while. Here’s one with a pointless innovation: ‘turning’ pages.
• The complete works of Philip K Dick on Scribd - I’m just going to keep mentioning stuff like this, because noone else seems to be noticing. The filesharing of books is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Yet. [Ta, Max]
• Publishing News: Independents decline in numbers, increase in sales - The few independent booksellers I know seem to be actively resisting innovation. The old values of community and personality are clearly important, but I’m still not sure they will be enough in the long run.
• “With the rise of the web, writing has met its photography. “ - Excellent article from the poetry foundation [via Eoin Purcell]
• “Content is Content” - Print is Dead’s wise words on The Economist’s audio edition, and other things.
• bLink Tank: a conversation with Manolis Kelaidis - Still somewhat mystified about all this, despite the swathes of traffic it’s driving this way. The bLink/blueBook is just a stop-gap until we get real ebooks. Who will actually want one when you get all that functionality in a fully-integrated device?

Image: Penguin screen William Gibson doc No Maps For These Territories in Second Life. More information…

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