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:
- 24/8/11 Readmill Beta Invites
The social reading service evolves. - 29/7/11 Rorschmap
Here be strange shapes and shadows on the land. - 19/7/11 Items received by post
A number of book-shaped things I have recently received. - 24/6/11 Where the F**k Was I? (A Book)
I made another book; an atlas written by robots. - 13/6/11 Robot Flâneur
On seeing the city through other eyes. - 1/6/11 Open Bookmarks II
What is social reading? - 24/5/11 Regarding the library with envious eyes
On the machines that read the books. - 18/4/11 Dear Publishing
- 12/4/11 The Silence Before, The Context Now
On online communication, its past and its weight. - 7/4/11 London Book Fair 2011
A debate and a panel, on Monday 11th.
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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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