November 2019
- Scientific Historica: How the World's Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge, by Brian Clegg (reviewing)
October 2019
- Finally, the Brexit discussion is getting serious (ha!)
- Best American Essays 2019 (writing)
- The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work, by Craig N. Huegel (publishing)
September 2019
- The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics, by Gary D. Meisner (reviewing)
- La Vie en Rose (nature)
July 2019
- If I Only Had a Clue (writing)
- Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the New Millennium (literature, reviewing)
June 2019
March 2019
- Swiss Exhibit, 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale (architecture)
- Garamond Premier Pro (typography)
February 2019
- Printing Revolution, 1450-1500 (publishing)
- The Blend If function in Photoshop (photoshop)
- The Harrowing of Hell Mosaic, Basilica San Marco, Venice (art and illustration)
August 2018
- Palazzo Trevisan, Murano, Venice (architecture)
- Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence, Italy (travel)
- San Giorgio and the Giudecca from Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice (travel)
July 2018
- Punta della Dogana, Venice (history)
- A Section of the Grand Canal in the Dorsaduro Sestiero of Venice (architecture, history, travel)
- Bridge of Sighs, Venice (travel)
May 2018
April 2018
- Vegetable venders near the Ponte dei Pugni (travel)
- María Félix, 1914-2002 (1616)
February 2018
- Ca' Farsetti, Venice (history, travel)
- Catchlight (photography)
January 2018
- Capuchin and Cappuccino (language)
- Removing Color Cast from Images (photoshop)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss on Travel (travel)
- The House of the Camel, Venice (globalism, history, travel)
October 2017
- Roman Fountain (photography, photoshop, travel)
- Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum, New York (museums, photography, photoshop)
- Astronomicum Caesarium, 1540 (books, history)
- Good typography in five minutes (typography)
- Orbis sensualium pictus, 1659 (books, history)
- Une fleur que m'a donné RRose Sélavy (photography, photoshop)
- Weathered Walls (photography)
- Living Wall with Calder, SFMOMA (photoshop)
September 2017
- Penobscot Stones (art and illustration)
- Scena di Venezia (art and illustration)
- The Persistence of Forgetting (publishing)
- Photo to Line Art Technique (photoshop)
July 2017
- Reading Valente at the Library of Congress (translation, valente)
May 2017
- On Aspect Ratios (books, graphic design, photography, photoshop)
- Links for May 25 (publishing)
- Shakespeare's Globe (globalism, history)
- "Fritillaria," 1915, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (art and illustration)
- The New Peronistas (politics)
April 2017
- Albrecht Altdorfer, Forest Scene with Saint George Fighting the Dragon, 1510 (art and illustration)
- The cruxiform crucible (huh)
- Fearless against the blowback (art and illustration)
- Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf (art and illustration)
- Warren, Rhode Island (travel)
- To The Lighthouse: Nubble Light House, Cape Neddick Light Station, York, Maine (and a few other lighthouses) (photography, travel)
March 2017
- The Lost Poems of Cangjie (poetry)
- Selections from a Grace Paley Interview (publishing)
- Eliot Weinberger, literary renegade (authors)
- Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries from China's Han Dynasty (art and illustration, history)
- Mailbag: Left Abe, Right Abe Makes Textbook Appearance (cool, mailbag)
February 2017
- What's New at Tom's Garden (webwork)
- Mailbag: 10 Design Trends (graphic design, mailbag)
January 2017
- Ginger Beer Label (graphic design)
- Bonds and Fractures: Asian Art Museum Exhibition Sheds Light on the Rama Epic (art and illustration)
November 2016
- Thanksgiving playlist (music)
- My Nightmare (scary)
September 2016
- Nerfy Po (community)
- The current workspace (whatever)
- Ten thoughts on Carl Hiaasen's Razor Girl (reviewing)
- Carol and Max near Desert Hot Springs (photography)
August 2016
- Again. And again. (marketing, museums)
- "Writing" posts at blog.rightreading.com (writing)
- A new look for blog.rightreading.com (webwork)
July 2016
- Shaky times at the Met (museums)
June 2016
- Fame un spritz : the lyrics (whatever)
- Trump Destroyer (politics)
May 2016
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Also died Sevan Tethys, years ago, Thomas Christensen wrote tasty (1616)
- San Francisco Chronicle Sportswriting Strained Conceit Awards for May 12, 2016 (writing)
- Beyond Shakespeare at The Critical Flame (1616, authors, writing)
- Photography at Tom's Garden (photography)
- Sticky posts (webwork)
- Art and illustration at rightreading.com (art and illustration)
- Publishing @ rightreading.com (publishing)
- Reviewing posts at rightreading.com (reviewing)
- Webwork posts at rightreading.com (webwork)
- Typography at rightreading.com (typography)
- Photography at rightreading.com (photography)
- Changes at www.rightreading.com (webwork)
March 2016
- Exhibition Review: China at the Center, at the Asian Art Museum (art and illustration, museums)
- The Asian at Fifty: First Impressions (art and illustration, museums)
January 2016
- Friday Roundup : Links for January 15 (whatever)
- New York Public Library provides hi-res images for free use (art and illustration, libraries, photography, rights)
August 2015
- The pot in the garden (1616, authors, cool)
- Coming soon to an HR department near you? (authors, psychology)
January 2015
- ROI review (reviewing, river of ink)
November 2014
- 50 books designed (graphic design)
September 2014
- Young writers (writing)
August 2014
- Hello world (river of ink)
August 2013
- Tarting up Jane Austen (whatever)
- Friday roundup : Links for 2 August (links)
July 2013
June 2013
- River of Ink: the cover (graphic design, writing)
- Friday roundup: Links for 21 June (links)
- Web redesign (webwork)
May 2013
- Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you? (translation)
- What is water? (authors, cool, film-video)
- Friday roundup: links for April 3 (links)
April 2013
- Friday roundup: Links for 26 April (links)
- Landscape with Yellow Birds: Selected Poems by José Ángel Valente (books, poetry)
- Fun with panoramas (photography, travel)
- Mailbag: NCBR (1616) (1616, mailbag)
March 2013
- Canon Powershot A630 vs. Olympus PEN E-PL2 (photography)
- Pulp nonfiction (wow)
- Friday roundup : Links for 9 March (links)
- Olympus E-Pl2 (photography)
February 2013
- Links for Friday, February 22 (links)
- Stand by me (cool)
- Who knows the way? Johnny Cash! (cool)
- Paris under water (photography)
July 2012
- Tom Kristensen (authors)
- Password strength (computing)
- How well do you see color? (graphic design)
May 2012
- Uncle Drew (wow)
- Friday Roundup: Links for May 11 (links)
- Bravo, Walters! (copyright, intellectual.property)
- Kansas City Public Library (libraries)
- Friday roundup: links for May 4 (links)
April 2012
- Font Shop plug-in (typography)
- Cats as typefaces (ha!, typography)
- A manuscript of geometric solids (books, history)
- Different covers for books by male and female writers? (books, publishing)
March 2012
- 1616 review recap (1616)
February 2012
- Barney Rosset (publishing)
- 1616 landing page updated (1616, webwork)
- Google on Google (ha!, webwork)
January 2012
- Living in the material world (1616)
- Errorist alert (huh)
- The Gettysburg PowerPoint (history, software)
December 2011
- Google Plus versus Facebook: Where things stand today (webwork)
- Give the headline writer a raise (bookstores)
- Stunning, excellent, fabulous (1616)
- Seeking the man behind science's champion (1616)
- Color psychology (art and illustration, huh)
November 2011
- Turkey Day (1616, art and illustration, history)
- Mailbag: Past Me (weird)
October 2011
- Denisovan migration across the Pacific (cool)
- 1616 video trailers (1616, film-video)
- Links for Friday, Oct. 21 (links)
- What is the best time of day to post to a blog? (webwork)
September 2011
- Links for Friday, September 30 (links)
- More on the "alt" tag (webwork)
- Another boring blurb post (1616)
- The Danish Poet (film-video)
- John E. Wills on 1616 (1616)
- Productivity secret (writing)
- Links for Friday, September 16 (links)
- "Alt" text not displayed on mouseover (webwork)
- Links for Friday, September 9 (links)
- Links for Friday, September 2 (links)
- Richard Nash in Boston Review (books, publishing)
August 2011
- Controlling content order in epubs (epub, publishing)
- Fun with verbs (language, writing)
- Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges (authors)
- 1616 landing page (1616, webwork)
- Links for Friday, August 12 (links)
- On e-books and print books (publishing)
- Human flowers (art and illustration)
July 2011
June 2011
- About 1616: The World in Motion (1616)
- Help wanted: Italian painting specialist (1616, art and illustration, history)
- Monkeys and squirrels in trees (art and illustration, cool, reading)
- Howlers (history, mesoamerica, sheesh, writing)
- The Naipaul Test (authors)
- Randomized Editing (authors, whatever, writing)
May 2011
- Third blurb in (1616, marketing)
- Second blurb in (1616, marketing)
- First blurb in (1616, marketing)
April 2011
- Blurb watch (1616, marketing)
- WW2 vets head for DC (history)
March 2011
- Author photo (1616, books, photography)
- Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses (reading)
- HarperCollins vs the South Sioux City, Nebraska, Public Library (books, libraries)
- Another weird writing job, via Craigslist (sheesh)
- Rant: The sorry state of bibliographic records (libraries)
February 2011
- Links for Friday, February 11 (links)
- 1616: the plan, revised (1616)
January 2011
- Following in the Footsteps of Nature (1616)
- Pantone Chip Cookies (graphic design, ha!)
- The 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists (books, reviewing)
- "I am an advocate of finding new and better ways to accomplish common tasks" (books, marketing, sheesh)
- Another unmemorable post (typography)
December 2010
- Tom's guide to spending the night at Heathrow airport (whatever)
- Galileo's sketches of the phases of the moon (1616)
November 2010
- Dear me! (whatever)
- Make me a spritz (woohoo)
- Travel photo: Castel Vecchio Museum courtyard, Verona, Italy (photography, travel)
- Travel photo: Venetian gondolier (photography, travel)
- Travel photo: a street in Verona (photography, travel)
- It's a small world aperol (travel)
- 1616 and the Golden Age (1616)
September 2010
- Another new book: Selected Poems of Jose Angel Valente (translation, valente, writing)
August 2010
- Links for 27 August (links)
- 1616: The plan (1616)
- Pandora (whatever)
July 2010
- 1616: The World in Motion accepted for publication (1616)
- Great opening paragraphs: The Confusions of Pleasure by Timothy Brook (writing)
- I write like ... (whatever, writing)
- Links for Friday, July 30, 2010 (links)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- Print vs iPad (reading)
- Managing the slush (publishing)
June 2010
- Friday roundup (links)
- Project Thirty-Three (graphic design)
- Slow . . . (whatever)
- BP gas station (headlines, sigh)
May 2010
- Friday roundup (links)
- How to figure an advance against book royalties (books, contracts)
- Google font API (typography, webwork)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Amazon gets into the translation business (books)
- The web is a wide and mysterious place (webwork)
- How the internet works (webwork)
April 2010
- Frequently asked questions -- how do I protect my work's copyright? (copyright)
- Why Google Chrome is my default browser (webwork)
- 100 meters of humanity (photography)
- How to pick a typeface: The flowchart (typography)
- Who was Phillipa Fallon? (film-video)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Spamming Amazon (publishing, webwork)
- Two views of the future of book publishing (books)
- "It's only books and shelves . . . (whatever)
March 2010
- No. Why do you ask? (libraries, sheesh)
- Mistakes designers make (graphic design)
- Reading up on health care (politics, reading)
- "Books" in the age of the IPad (books, graphic design)
- New new Shakespeare portraits (authors)
- A new look for the BBC (webwork)
- A new portrait of William Shakespeare (authors)
- Friday roundup (links)
- World Book News: Dictionary of Americanisms (language, translation)
- The illusion of competence (psychology)
- Can you read this? (language)
- Odd book titles of 2009 (books, offbeat)
February 2010
- World book news: 13 rules for writers (authors, writing)
- Trilby, Allumi, Calluna, Giorgio, Leksa, Sentinel, Catacumba (typography)
- Polls are wonderful (sheesh)
- Publish and perish (reading)
- Venice book tower (whatever)
- J. D. Salinger (authors)
- Rag or justified? (books, graphic design)
- Inigo Jones FTW (popular.culture)
January 2010
- A tip for authors (politics)
- Wikipedia is marvelously comic (ha!)
- On the loss of vitality in writing (authors, writing)
- Motorized paraglider (film-video, travel)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- 35 handbound books (printing)
- Stanford Professional Publishing Course Closes (publishing)
- Mailbag: Objections to the claim of Asian influence on European printing (printing)
- What's your type? (typography)
- Lhasa de Sela (music)
- Back (whatever)
December 2009
- Liquids (sheesh)
- Mailbag: A form query (mailbag, writing)
- Say what? (editing)
- A formalist analysis of the literary genre of the Windows installation plaint; or, an agony in nine fits (ha!)
- Monsoon (travel)
- Hiatus (travel)
- Extraordinary finds (literature)
- It seems I haven't been keeping up (books)
- Early 20th-century scenes of Paris (history, photography)
- Google Wave (webwork)
- DailyLit switches to free model (reading)
November 2009
- Famous Belgians (whatever)
- Mailbag: A book of idioms (language, mailbag)
- Better brains through foreign-language learning (language)
- Sarah Palin (politics)
- An interesting Wordpress theme (webwork)
- How to improve your writing (and your love life) (writing)
- Vatican type (typography)
- Classical letterforms from Ostia (typography)
- Photography's rule of thirds (photography)
October 2009
- Mailbag: Bellemeade Books and Jonathan Williams (authors, community, mailbag)
- Mailbag: Electric Literature 2 (and party) (community, mailbag)
- Goatherding in Agerola (travel)
- Driving from Furore on the Amalfi Coast to Agerola in the Lattari Mountains (photography, travel)
- Ten tips for visiting Rome (travel)
- A universal story (translation, travel)
- The Path of the Gods (photography, travel)
- Gathering storm clouds over Amalfi (photography, travel)
September 2009
- Break time (whatever)
- Sites we like: The Art of American Book Covers (books, graphic design)
- Book titles then and now (books)
- Book vs. Kindle Smackdown (books, bookstores)
- Redesigning Craigslist (graphic design, webwork)
- Hot links (links)
- Right Reading is taking a brief break (whatever)
- Friday roundup (links)
- I touch your mouth . . . (authors)
- Will Powers (1946-2009) and "The Printer's Error" (community, typography, writing)
- Ikea replaces Futura with Verdana (typography)
August 2009
- Pop quiz: 10 word sources (language, quizzes)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Have the past twenty years been an aberration in the history of book publishing? (books, publishing)
- Pop Quiz: Identify the Commonality (language)
- What screen resolution is your web canvas? (webwork)
- Pow! Comic Sans! Meets! Its! Match! (typography)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Mailbag: Press release promoting a resource for writers (mailbag, writing)
- Hanuman Maximon (graphic design, publishing)
- Book design battle (graphic design)
- Temporarily like Achilles (popular.culture)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- 100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs; Or, Link-building Made Easy (community, webwork)
- Mailbag: What should my royalty rate be? (contracts, mailbag)
- Try Google's new search engine (search.engines)
- Norwegian Hell Children (translation)
- Cà d'Zan Mansion, Sarasota, Florida (photography)
- Weekend update: personalized search (search.engines)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Why are you here? (community)
- The Constipation Party (authors, politics)
- Is none singular? Are none plural? (editing)
- 10 most awful library books (libraries)
- Preparing a manuscript for book publication (writing)
July 2009
- Publishers Weekly for sale (magazines)
- First library building (libraries)
- A role for the copy editor (editing)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Topicality in literary writing, and its implications for web search optimization (literature, search.engines, writing)
- Caption (marketing)
- 3:05 (writing)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Library expansion (libraries)
- On vacation (whatever)
- Overwrought openings (writing)
- Breaking news in typography (ha!, typography)
June 2009
- Scholar's Accoutrements (art and illustration)
- The Typehead Chronicles of Thomas Christensen, ABCedminded Typographer (typography)
- Designing a book on Southeast Asian Art (books, graphic design)
- Whos to say whats best? (language)
- What do these books have in common? (authors)
- Friday roundup (links)
- The dangerous world of butterflies (authors)
- The strange passage of time (ha!)
- (He)art and commerce (marketing)
- Blind testing search engines (webwork)
- Barcode scanning a personal library (libraries)
- 100 best novels quiz (literature)
- Amazing athletes (whatever)
- 15 years of work in 45 seconds (graphic design)
May 2009
- Friday Roundup (links)
- The four-color process (printing)
- When kerning goes bad, 2 . . . (typography)
- Ugliest Google logo ever (sheesh)
- A designer's resume (graphic design)
- Print vs. electronic technologies (books)
- Asian Art Museum blog goes live (webwork)
- Copper Canyon to publish Chinese anthology (literature, translation)
- President Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are (reading)
- The Emperor's New Brand (marketing)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Major new Cortazar book appearing this week (authors)
- Poets ranked by the gravity of their beards (authors)
April 2009
- Nation brands (graphic design, marketing)
- Thailand - Burma Map (graphic design)
- Jim Houston, 1933-2009 (authors)
- Buried in Books (books, offbeat)
- Friday roundup (whatever)
- Amazon apologizes (ha!)
- Ghost type: Ceres Fertilizer (whatever)
- Amazon's appalling policy (community, distribution)
- The Old Man's Verses (translation)
- Oddest book title of the year (offbeat)
- Writers reading Right Reading (books, community, search.engines)
March 2009
- Design geekiness (graphic design)
- Rethinking twitter (community)
- Friday roundup (links)
- It's urgent! (editing)
- A ruined life? (marketing)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Shakespeare, again (authors)
- You've read these books. Sure you have. (reading)
- Rapping typeheads (typography)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Mutanabbi Street reading (community)
- Shakespeare's likeness (authors)
- The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (reviewing, translation)
- Should publishing be open? (community, marketing, publishing, rights)
- Another independent publishing company bites the dust (books, publishing)
- Public service announcement (film-video)
February 2009
- Charles Montgomery Burns Blogging Award (blogging, community, graphic design)
- Friday roundup (links)
- How to design like Massimo Vignelli (graphic design)
- Albums of the year (art and illustration, offbeat)
- Why book review sections don't work (reviewing)
- Friday roundup (whatever)
- Hiring (community)
- Why proofreading is hard (language, reading)
- What's going on here? (photography)
- Making a WordPress index page (links, webwork)
- Public service announcement (typography)
- Spelling test (editing)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- Codex Book Fair (books)
- David Godine on Bruce Rogers (typography)
- The kindness of strangers (community, webwork)
- What are the components of a well-made book? (books, graphic design)
January 2009
- Updike links (whatever)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Driving traffic (links, marketing, search.engines, webwork)
- Friday roundup (links)
- On the beach (whatever)
- Internet book marketing (marketing)
- Out to lunch (translation)
- Why are Americans reading more literature? (reading)
- Solitude (travel)
- Tranquilo (travel)
- Florida (travel)
- Overwrought iron (travel)
- Barrier Islands in January (travel)
December 2008
- Why am I working today? (sigh)
- Northern California Book Reviewers Translation Award (books, translation)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- On the devaluation of editors (publishing)
- The Passion of Saint Rudolph (art and illustration, offbeat)
- Is print dying? (books)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Ten Independent Bay Area Book Publishers, part 2 (books)
- Ten Independent Bay Area Book Publishers, part 1 (books)
- Appreciating Tschichold (typography)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- Five of Books (art and illustration)
- Better Flickr search (graphic design)
- Progress on library (books)
November 2008
- Friday roundup | Duly Quoted (links)
- Duly quoted (Thanksgiving edition) (scary)
- What typeface says "Bali"? (art and illustration, politics, typography)
- Bad sex (authors)
- Five centuries of board games (graphic design)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Cronopios and Famas (literature)
- Poetry Elect (poetry)
- Photoshop tutorial: how to extend a graduated background (photoshop)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Shepard Fairey at Gingko Press (art and illustration, books)
- Best wishes, Merle (art and illustration)
- Web woes (webwork)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Advice to the victors (authors)
- Obama! (politics)
- Dixville Notch goes Obama (politics)
- Ubu Roi, book binding by Marcel Duchamp and Mary Reynolds (authors, books, graphic design)
October 2008
- Friday roundup (links)
- I go Pogo (politics)
- Doubleday Publishing announces big layoffs (books)
- Tailored messages (politics)
- Left face / right face : Gary Busey (art and illustration, psychology)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Two weeks until election day (politics)
- The Neon Boneyard (typography)
- Ghost type: Brignole Estate General Merchandise (typography)
- Off the grid (whatever)
- Careless (whatever)
- The Island at the End of the World (books, graphic design)
September 2008
- The free market (whatever)
- My Bookhouse (books)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (links)
- What is the optimum length of a query letter? (agents, writing)
- When kerning goes bad (typography)
- Two covers, one image (books, graphic design)
- Saving endangered words (language)
- Python poetry (film-video)
- Photography the hard way (photography)
- Literary Prizes (authors, community)
- American and European dust jackets, 1926-1947 (books, graphic design)
- Friday roundup (links)
- A brief history break (history)
- A story of a sign (film-video)
- A Spanish Renaissance calligraphy manual (typography)
- What the heck is the past tense of spec? (editing)
- Illustrating Lennon (authors, film-video, graphic design)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Palin and book banning (books)
- What kind of accent does Sarah Palin have? (language)
- Wordpress plugin wanted (webwork)
- Palin's vetting (politics)
August 2008
- Hotlinking reconsidered (webwork)
- Friday roundup (links)
- A WordPress plugin, and how to find category ID numbers (webwork)
- Graphic design fads and Olympics posters (graphic design)
- Correcting color cast with Photoshop (photoshop)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Six classic wordle poets (authors, webwork, writing)
- Language differences between men and women (language)
- Friday roundup (links)
- The books we need (authors, literature, writing)
- DoFollow scrapped (webwork)
- Translate server error -- yum! (translation)
- Rules grammar change (language)
- Testing BibMe (research)
- Friday roundup | Duly quoted (publishing)
July 2008
- More marvels of machine translation (translation)
- Fonts for sale at the Museum of Printing (typography)
- Special offer: preview the Museum of Folly (offbeat)
- Friday roundup (links)
- Where's that accent from? (language)
- Tom's Book of Days (webwork)
- How I always say it: this hole is quite fine good! (translation)
- World's largest publishers (books, publishing)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted (links, whatever)
- Two more tough words to spell (editing)
- A hard word to spell (editing)
- Beatrix Potter rarities (art and illustration)
- Reader sues over translations (rights, translation)
- Big columns at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC (photography, whatever)
- Ghost type: borated talcum toilet powder (typography)
- Poor, poorer, porous (editing)
- Ghost type: coal tar products (typography)
- Copyright flow chart (copyright)
- Friday Fireworks (links)
- Helvetica clip (typography)
- Photo Wednesday: Bringing it all back home (scary)
- Low vibrancy (photoshop)
June 2008
- The linguist as Sybil (language)
- Friday Roundup (marketing)
- Publishing payola (marketing, reviewing)
- Mid 20th century printing (printing)
- 2002 honest fonts (typography)
- The key to being a writer (writing)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted (links, whatever)
- Overwhelmed (whatever)
- For the editor in your life (whatever)
- Will Amazon take the place of traditional publishers? (books, publishing, whatever)
- Merry Bloomsday (whatever)
- How have new technologies affected book design and typography? (graphic design, POD, printing, typography, whatever)
- Friday Roundup (links, whatever)
- Editorial cartoon of the week (whatever)
- Found type: San Francisco Galvanizing (whatever)
- OED goes electronic (whatever)
- This can't be real (whatever)
- How does one become a book designer? (whatever)
- Seen at BEA (community)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- A loss for words (language, reading)
May 2008
- Back soon (whatever)
- Photo Wednesday: woodtype figures (photography, typography)
- How much of this page will you read? (webwork, writing)
- Market testing book covers (graphic design, marketing)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Books and Buddha-nature (authors, books)
- Photo Wednesday: abandoned books (books, photography)
- Op ads (graphic design, marketing)
- Writers' websites (authors, webwork)
- Print publishing caught in pricing bind (books, publishing)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- What is design? (film-video, graphic design)
- Adjusting map color (graphic design)
- On the making of maps (globalism, graphic design)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Overblown prose for the ages (art and illustration, popular.culture, writing)
April 2008
- Is our journalists educated? (journalism, popular.culture)
- A quick history of typography (typography)
- Publishing role visualization (publishing)
- Easy conversion of Word documents to html (webwork)
- Language Maps (language)
- Tips for writers who blog (blogging)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Classic writers quiz (authors)
- Cuss-o-meter calls us clean (whatever)
- Better dot those i's and cross those t's! (scary, typography)
- A rather difficult font game (typography)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Insert tab A into slot B (history, typography)
- Book design fees (books, graphic design)
- Against branding (marketing)
- So adult it smarts (graphic design)
- Free cellphone ringtones technique (whatever)
- Raul's Lies (writing)
- Creative barcodes from Japan (graphic design)
- The Medici Conspiracy (authors)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Draft titles (writing)
- Literary dealbreakers (community, reading)
- Sad Young Lit Guys (books, graphic design)
March 2008
- Amazon coercing publishers to use BookSurge? (POD)
- Book sales rising (books)
- Gender confusion (language)
- Vocabularium rerum (books, graphic design, history)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Tuttle Publishing to distribute Asian Art Museum books (distribution)
- Jonathan Williams, 1929-2008 (authors)
- Typographia (history, typography)
- BRB (whatever)
- Always check your work (photoshop)
- Corpse reborn (literature)
- Happy Birthday, Henry Watson Fowler (language)
- Stephen Page on book publishing today (marketing)
- Photo Friday (photoshop)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Why are book editors so gullible? (books, editing)
- The university as a center for humanities in a post-2.0 web world (art and illustration, language)
- Wordsmithing (editing, language)
- Crisises? (headlines)
- I've got to break these chains (film-video)
February 2008
- Friday Roundup | Link Love (links)
- Are women human? (books)
- The naked truth about English pronunciation (language)
- Signage (language)
- Font stars (typography)
- Creative Commons (contracts, copyright, intellectual.property, rights)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted | Link Love (links)
- Semi-buzz (editing, writing)
- Hotlinking and its discontents (webwork)
- Mr. and Mrs. Right Reading at home (blogging)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted | Link Love (links)
- Refute vs. rebut (editing)
- Business blogs (webwork)
- Selling chapters (books, webwork)
- Motion typography (film-video, typography)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted (links)
- Words fail ... (graphic design, typography)
- Lens blur (photoshop)
- Working with video in Photoshop (art and illustration, film-video, photoshop)
- Recognizing scam publishing offers (books, contracts)
- Friday Roundup | Duly Quoted | Link Love (links)
January 2008
- Tilt-shifting the Pioneer Monument (photography, photoshop)
- Hexagram 26 (writing)
- The need for editorial direction (editing, webwork, whatever)
- Ousted L.A. Times editor blasts newspapers' "psychology of surrender" (newspapers)
- Avante-garde frustration (art and illustration, webwork)
- Against violence in movies (film-video)
- Friday Roundup / Duly Quoted (links, whatever)
- Google gone wild (search.engines)
- Difficult photo subject (photography)
- Book cover design: On Fishing (books, graphic design)
- Death of the Novel: A Literary Crossword (whatever)
- A printer's rant (printing)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Destination bookstores (bookstores)
- Amazon-France tussle continues (bookstores, distribution)
- Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of good fiction writing (authors, fiction)
- Trajan, the movie font (graphic design, typography)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- A photoblog (blogging, webwork)
- Independent book publishing, part 3 (books, publishing)
- A tiny annoyance (webwork)
- Independent book publishing, part 2 (books, publishing)
- Friday Roundup / Duly Quoted (links, quotes)
- Google dangers and opportunities (globalism, search.engines)
- Happy Public Domain Day (copyright)
- Off the grid (whatever)
December 2007
- Rum pum pum pum (art and illustration)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Independent book publishing, part 1 (books)
- Has Technorati jumped the shark? (blogging, webwork)
- Should books have ads? (books, marketing)
- Publishing trends (POD)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Community building (blogging, community)
- Your shelves (books, community)
- Art and feminism (art and illustration, books)
- An e-book from blog archives (blogging, books, travel, webwork)
- The Stumbleupon effect (webwork)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- My Photoshop default workflow (art and illustration, graphic design, photography, photoshop, software)
- Blurbs (books, marketing, publishing)
- Policy statement (blogging, community, webwork)
- The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp (history, typography)
- A Christmas tradition (alternative, art and illustration)
November 2007
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Trouble at Quebecor (printing)
- The book is dead (art and illustration, books)
- Bad Sex (authors, reading)
- Digital divide (globalism, webwork)
- Seven Junipers (art and illustration, asian.culture, webwork)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- 86 recommended travel books (authors, literature, writing)
- Vector Magic (art and illustration, graphic design, typography, webwork)
- Best book covers (books, graphic design)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- Language Wars (translation)
- Is copyright corroding our society? (copyright)
- Style Trends in Fiction (authors, fiction)
- On Taste (psychology)
- Norman Mailer has died (authors)
- Friday Roundup (links)
- 3,778 overdue books returned (whatever)
- Madam Mayo (translation)
- The year's best magazine covers (magazines)
- Mainstream and alternative book publishing (books, publishing)
- X-Rite and Pantone (graphic design)
- Extended Live Archives and WordPress 2.3 (blogging, webwork)
- Digital humor (whatever)
- Friday Roundup (journals, links)
- New Worlds / New Words book launch (translation)
- Book Design: Persian Ceramics (asian.culture, graphic design)
October 2007
- Books for writers wrap-up (writing)
- Leila and Massimo Vignelli on living by design (graphic design, typography)
- The Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook (translation)
- Google Translate, no longer using Systran software, goes head to head with Yahoo's Babelfish (translation)
- Typographic illusions (typography)
- How to design a book without special skills or software (books, graphic design)
- More fall color (photography)
- Cornell color (photography)
- Controlled chaos and blog journalism (blogging, journalism)
- Carnage in the book world (whatever)
- Sites we like: Galley Cat (community, headlines, publishing)
- Thinking with Type (graphic design, reviewing, typography)
- Text decoration (books, graphic design, history)
- Flexible pricing or independent booksellers who pay for readings? (bookstores, distribution)
- Guide to Doris Lessing (authors)
- Reading tomorrow at Litquake (community)
- Joyce Carol Oates on creating characters in fiction (authors, fiction)
- Book publishing debut -- at 96 (publishing)
- What are the most helpful books about writing and publishing? (reading, writing)
- Extended Live Archives | One year ago (blogging, webwork)
- Publishing Trends Industry Survey (publishing)
- The Word (language)
- Writers' rooms (authors, writing)
- Typographic humor (whatever)
- Portuguese libraries, photographed by Candida Höfer (books, literature, photography)
- Disappearing hyphens? (editing, language)
September 2007
- Confused about copyright (copyright)
- End-of-month companion sites roundup (blogging, webwork)
- Chicken Soup for the Kitchen (books)
- Color names (graphic design, webwork)
- The word "read" kills clicks (webwork)
- Advice from an editor (editing)
- Seven rules for winning a MacArthur (whatever)
- The end (film-video, graphic design)
- Book sales, book publishing economics, and print on demand (books, POD)
- A message from Mr. D. (film-video, music, webwork)
- Eugene de Salignac, photographer of NYC (photography)
- Genesis (webwork)
- Knopf's rejections (books)
- Call for translations (journals, translation)
- On humanism (philosophy)
- What is this? (art and illustration)
- A poetry challenge (poetry)
- BlogRush (webwork)
- Recommended reading (history, writing)
- Fernando del Paso to receive FIL Literature Prize (literature, translation)
- Che's notebook to be published (books)
- Save Desuetude ... (language)
- Are books irrelevant? (books, publishing, webwork)
- Language is a virus (art and illustration, language, politics)
- Using Ampersands (typography)
- Blog tours for book marketing (blogging, marketing)
- 10 Questions: Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director, Small Press Distribution / CLMP (community, distribution, marketing, publishing)
- Do computers make students sloppy? (typography)
- 50 neglected classics (authors, literature)
- Labor Day (blogging, politics, webwork)
- End of month companion sites round-up (blogging, webwork)
August 2007
- Edward Seidensticker, 1921-2007 (authors, translation)
- Archer Returns (authors, literature)
- Back online (webwork)
- Come in (authors, literature)
- Dutch Type (books, marketing, publishing, search.engines, webwork)
- Voldemort conjures a preposition (language)
- Related posts (webwork)
- How to repair books (books)
- Certificate in literary translation (translation)
- Kontrapunkt typeface (typography)
- Google book search (books, webwork)
- Judging the Booker by Its Covers (books)
- Little Planets (photography)
- On the Road (authors, books, graphic design)
- Standards of Journalism (journalism, newspapers)
- A proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution (politics)
- Weinberger on Sontag (authors, reviewing)
- Who has been editing Wikipedia? (politics, webwork)
- Morphing symmetry (art and illustration)
- Ghost signs (art and illustration, marketing, typography)
- Redesigning the Penguin UK website (graphic design, publishing, webwork)
- Left Abe, Right Abe (art and illustration, history)
- Read the contract (contracts, publishing)
- Journalistic ethics and Publishers Weekly (journalism, magazines, publishing)
- Novelist, Murderer? (scary)
- French teenager in trouble for translating Potter (publishing, translation)
- Damn, your captchas are hard (webwork)
- You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing (language)
- Daily Lit (literature, webwork)
- Stray Quotes (authors, webwork)
- Typographic humor (typography)
- Polish Posters (art and illustration, search.engines, webwork)
- Left Matt, Right Matt (art and illustration)
- Letterpress printing (printing, typography)
- Embedded journalism (journalism, newspapers)
- Take care with cookies (webwork)
- The Photoshop Wizardry of Al Qaeda (photography, software)
- Faulkner's sorority pledge (authors)
- An Essay on Translation (translation)
- Robert Ludlum keeps cranking them out ... (authors, publishing)
- Do we really need copy editors? (editing, newspapers)
- Espresso at NYPL (POD, publishing)
- Flag Colors (art and illustration, globalism, graphic design)
- Social Book Cataloguing Sites (books, community, research, webwork)
July 2007
- Is the NYT concealing decline in print revenue? (newspapers)
- Academic Journals Endangered? (magazines, publishing, research)
- Companion Sites Roundup (blogging, webwork)
- Ten Steps to Better Writing (writing)
- CommentPress (webwork)
- Libraries (reading)
- A Short Guide to Iraq (books, globalism, history)
- Poisoning the Well (newspapers, reviewing)
- Open Letter (publishing, translation)
- Royal Futura (film-video, typography)
- The impotence of proofreading (editing, film-video)
- Tintin and Racism (art and illustration, authors, books)
- Rejecting Harry (publishing)
- Two Lines Translation Challenge (translation)
- Monolingualism and Intolerance (language, translation)
- Rejecting Jane (authors, publishing)
- Interview with Julio Cortazar (authors, film-video)
- Photo Outlining (art and illustration)
- Netflix model for books (books, marketing, webwork)
- 15th-Century Type (history, typography)
- Optimal Copyright (copyright)
- Read a Book (film-video)
- Colleagues Remembered (community)
- Who are these people? (community)
- Dharma Bummed (authors, community, publishing)
- Categorizing Books (publishing)
- Faint Praise (reviewing)
- Monolingualism and the Presidency (language)
- Is It Serious? (authors, fiction)
- New Graphic Design (graphic design)
- Borges and the Maya Pyramids (authors, mesoamerica)
- The Sorted Books Project (art and illustration, books)
June 2007
- Should reviewers read other reviews? (reviewing)
- Recalling Malcolm Lowry (authors)
- Companion Sites Roundup (webwork)
- Dillard Tired (authors, film-video)
- Copyright video (copyright, film-video)
- A New Test for Lying (politics)
- Bertelsmann continues to expand (asian.culture, globalism, publishing)
- Syria or Afghanistan? (globalism)
- InDesign and XML (graphic design, typography)
- Helvetica Love/Hate Contest Winners (typography)
- “Beware of seriousness ... (authors)
- Who Wrote The Books of Love? (authors, publishing)
- Red Hat Ladies (photography, travel)
- Happy Bloomsday (authors)
- Desert Garden, Huntington (whatever)
- GDP Map (globalism, research)
- The Word as Art (art and illustration, writing)
- How dirty words get dirty (language)
- New insights into the Google search algorithm (search.engines, SEO)
- The Aesthetics of Reading (graphic design, reading, typography)
- Companion Sites Roundup (webwork)
- The homogenization of publishing continues (publishing)
- Atelopus (nature)
- More on Mutanabbi (community)
- The most pompous translator of our time? (reviewing, translation)
- "They can't sell them, they can't give them away" (publishing, writing)
- Works and Days (authors)
- Random Facts (publishing)
- Giving It Away (marketing, publishing)
- The Fairy Use Doctrine (copyright)
- What Is a Page? (publishing, webwork)
- Logos from Letters (graphic design, typography)
- Dept. of Headlines That Speak for Themselves (publishing)
- Disappearing Newsstands (publishing)
- Book Industry Stats (books, publishing)
- Splinters Revisited (blogging)
May 2007
- The Western Gaze (art and illustration)
- Gabo Returns to Macondo (authors)
- &imgtype=face (search.engines)
- NewsMap (globalism, research)
- WorldCat Library Search (research, search.engines)
- New World / New Words (publishing, translation, writing)
- Electronic versus Print Media (publishing, webwork)
- Out of Print Out of Date (POD, publishing)
- The Writer's Life ... in Film (film-video, popular.culture, writing)
- He can't go on, he'll go on (authors, books, publishing)
- Book Reviews in Blogs and Newspapers (blogging, reviewing)
- Media Predict's Project Publish (publishing)
- So What (music)
- 13 ways of looking at a typeface (typography)
- Department of headlines that require no comment (headlines)
- Bad Health Care, Deficient Welfare Keep Americans Short (globalism, politics)
- Dick Cheney (politics)
- Showing Support for Mutanabbi Street (books, community)
- Comparing the U.S. and France (globalism)
- Wiccans Are Uneasy (alternative)
- Companion Sites Roundup (frisco, webwork)
- How to Get a Book Published (publishing, search.engines, SEO, webwork)
- Department of headlines that require no comment (headlines)
- Paint it Black (publishing, typography)
- hobbit house (offbeat)
- Scene of the crime (whatever)
- How many book reviews do we need? (publishing, reviewing)
- Evolving web style (mesoamerica, webwork)
- I can't wait to get to the end of this post! (whatever)
- Splinters (mesoamerica, webwork)
- presidential candidates tag clouds (politics)
April 2007
- I Want to Take You Higher (whatever)
- Gill Sans (typography)
- Seen on eBay (editing, offbeat)
- Tutorial: Restoring a Dark Image in Photoshop (art and illustration, computing, mesoamerica, photoshop)
- The Observatory at Chichen Itza (mesoamerica, photography, travel)
- Colbert Rapport (politics)
- Are you a yankee or a rebel? (language)
- More Left Face - Right Face (art and illustration, psychology)
- Rejection (publishing)
- Brownback Remembers! (politics)
- Publishing Wiki (books, community, publishing)
- Answering the copyright question for books published 1923-1963 (copyright, publishing)
- Editing Reality (editing)
- It seems so right somehow (music, politics)
- Free Vista Fonts (computing, software, typography)
- Strange Maps (blogging, books, writing)
- An Economist Writes on Love (whatever)
- Orwell Saw the Writing on the Wall (books, politics, scary)
March 2007
- Are We Evolving? (politics, scary, sigh)
- Cute (whatever)
- How to Moonwalk (whatever)
- My Sweet Lord (alternative, art and illustration, music, offbeat)
- Swim, Swim, Swim! (offbeat, search.engines)
- John McCain Supports Gay Marriage, "Particularly Between Passionate Females" (politics, webwork)
- Pandas Are Getting into Publishing (asian.culture, publishing)
- Windows Most Secure OS (computing)
- Mambo de la Luna (music)
- Dolling Up the Classics (publishing)
- Ochre Ellipse (art and illustration, publishing)
- Worlds of Words (fiction, publishing, writing)
- Book Publishing Glossary (publishing)
- Outlook grim for writers (publishing, writing)
- Helvetica, the Poster (typography)
- How to Read a Book (books, publishing)
- Why we need music (music)
- Mayas Perform Critical Purification Ritual (mesoamerica, politics)
- The Dead and the Unknown (community)
- Windmills (photography, travel)
- Another Book Review Folding (publishing, reviewing)
- Absurd Headline of the Day (politics)
- Adjectives banned in Baltimore (language)
- We're in Trouble (publishing, writing)
- Puerto Morelos (mesoamerica, photography, travel)
- Hell no, she won't go! (community)
- Invading Liechtenstein (offbeat)
- Nofollow (blogging, SEO)
February 2007
- The Cult of the Talking Cross (history, mesoamerica, photography)
- Cenote X'Keken near Valladolid (mesoamerica, photography, travel)
- How to Disable Snap Link Previews (blogging, webwork)
- Another Stupid Quiz (whatever)
- New World / New Words Finally Being Published? (publishing, translation)
- Angry Black People Not Welcome at Wikipedia? (community, politics, webwork)
- "The Dumbing Down of America" (offbeat)
- Cousin Kerry, Master Alpine and Western Yodeler (music)
January 2007
- Testing Goodwidgets Photo Stack (blogging, photography, webwork)
- Miss Turnstile (art and illustration, photography)
- 200+ U-Turns (offbeat, search.engines)
- From Manuscript to Finished Art Book in Four Weeks (art and illustration, asian.culture, graphic design, publishing)
- NoFollow revisited (blogging, community, search.engines, webwork)
- Comments on Getting a Book Published (publishing, writing)
- MyBlogLog, yes or no? (blogging, community, SEO, webwork)
- I'll take that score (literature)
- Kissinger confesses, says it really is a case of blood for oil (politics)
- Free Banksy (art and illustration)
- Eight New Blog Features (blogging, webwork)
- Boz's London (history, literature, webwork)
- Amy Arbus's NYC in the 80s (alternative, community, history)
- More about StumbleUpon, and stumbly friends (community, webwork)
- Night Canal, Bruges, Belgium, Dec. 20, 2006 (photography, travel)
- BibliOdyssey (art and illustration, literature, publishing)
- Merry 2007 (whatever)
December 2006
- Alameda Manzanita on Sobrante Ridge (frisco, nature, photography)
- Green pigs that glow in the dark (offbeat)
- Bay Area biomes (frisco, nature, photography)
- Zooming in on a snowflake (nature, photography)
- How to spend the night at Heathrow Airport (travel)
- More Bruges photos (photography, travel)
- Pardon me? (history, politics)
- Zugzwang (politics)
- Instant Christmas Classic (whatever)
- Drum Machine (music, webwork)
- The Ballets of Celine (literature, translation)
- Packaged Goods Media versus Conversational Media (blogging, community, publishing, webwork)
- Famous Last Words (blogging, community, webwork)
- Bruges, December 2006 (photography, travel)
- Universal Google? (intellectual.property, search.engines)
- World's Tallest Man Saves Pair of Dolphins (offbeat)
- Back to Brugge (publishing, travel)
- Another Volley in the War on Christmas (alternative, music)
- Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens (music)
- Speaking of SEO (search.engines, SEO)
- Is SEO the new protection racket? (community, search.engines, SEO)
- Experts Weigh In (politics)
November 2006
- Disrespecting Asia? (asian.culture, frisco)
- Ukes in the News (music)
- Inside the Lair (photography, politics)
- Rampaging Sea Lions (frisco, nature, travel)
- Young and Hip (community)
- The Indonesian Curse Is Working (asian.culture, politics)
- Bienvenue a San Francisco (community, webwork)
- Note to Self (authors, literature, offbeat, writing)
- Google Calls Google Alerts Spam (search.engines)
- What does this woman believe in? (publishing)
- Dick Cheney inks book deal with Judith Regan (politics, publishing)
- Death by Powerpoint (software)
- Rightreading feeds have changed (blogging, webwork)
- Blogospherus (blogging, community)
- Exploding Aardvark (blogging, community)
- More Bad Ministration (nature, politics)
- Tony Blair calls Iraq a "disaster" (politics)
- Who is Eric Keroack? (politics)
- Ecobungling, 19th century style (nature, travel)
- Shark's Cove (photography, travel)
- Ukes for troops (music)
- Barbados Faces Invasion by Giant Snails (offbeat)
- Carol rides the waves (photography, travel)
- tropical blogging, beachside (blogging, music, travel)
- Take the "Philosophical Health Check" (whatever)
- At last, a Firefox extension simple enough for academics (software)
- Santorum will win in a landslide! (politics)
October 2006
- It's official (asian.culture, politics, search.engines)
- More Left Face / Right Face (whatever)
- The web: stasis and dynamism (webwork)
- More on feed readers (search.engines)
- Left Face, Right Face (whatever)
- Specialized Web Searches (search.engines)
- Copyediting Shakespeare (editing, literature, publishing)
- Getting Henry (literature)
- Alzheimers not projected to be a problem for Italian parliament (whatever)
- Make no mistake, Jeb Bush was not in the closet! (politics)
- Bush responds to the news of 655,000 deaths in Iraq. (politics)
- Google ranks third for search, according to Google (search.engines)
- Marijuana compound may slow Alzheimers (whatever)
- Should teenagers and others express themselves through blogs? (blogging, politics)
- The business of killing trees and putting chemicals on them (publishing)
- Are you incompetent? (whatever)
- How to create a custom news feed (search.engines, webwork)
September 2006
- Galliard (typography)
- I'm a daring thrill-seeker! (whatever)
- Writely for Gmail Users (blogging, software, webwork)
- Comments on "Gutenberg and the Koreans" (asian.culture, literature, publishing)
- Ten of my favorite bookmarklets (webwork)
- It's hard! It's hard! It's hard work! (politics)
August 2006
- Authorship and the Web (blogging, intellectual.property)
- "Are Editors Moribund?" (alternative, editing)
- Blog anthem (blogging, music)
- Comments on the Yi jing (asian.culture)
- New Blog Launch (blogging)
