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I’ve been a little under the weather, and I haven’t been able to keep up very well with e-mails and comments. I hope to rebound and get caught…
Publisher 010 Uitgeverij has made what I think is probably a smart decision to put their 2004 title Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp in Google Book Search. Of…
It’s easy to be seduced by software. But just because you can do some cool things doesn’t mean you should. It took quite a while for it to…
Looks like Google is starting to throw some weight behind their book search.
The new ability created by Wikipedia Scanner to track Wikipedia edits by IP address has brought some folks hours of entertainment. Where have the collaborative encyclopedia’s edits been…
At theBookseller.com, Ann Rafferty talks about her redesign of the Penguin UK site. In essence the site is moving a little in the direction of web 2.0 —…
There’s some Steve Martin movie — okay, we’re not at le niveau culturel le plus élevé here — where he’s pulled over while driving, and the cop asks…
If you like your literature bite-sized, Daily Lit could be the answer. It will send you a five-minute passage of a selection of public domain books by e-mail…
I’m trying out a new plug-in called Stray Quotes. You can see it in the left sidebar under the categories drop-down, under the head “Duly Quoted.” The plug-in…
There’s a nice selection of (mostly) postwar Polish posters at a Grayspace Poster Gallery. I’ve set the background to white in the selections above, using the “remove background…
At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas it was demonstrated how log-in data can be stolen via cookies exchange when using hi-fi hotspots. UPDATE: See the comments…
Publishers Weekly compares three book cataloguing sites: LibraryThing.com, Shelfari.com and GoodReads.com. These sites allow users to keyword tag and comment on books they own or have read. The…
Another end-of-month roundup of what’s going down at the sister sites. FRISCO VISTA Virgin Airlines Tu Lan Wildlife uprising, part 3 Secret List of Buildings You Can’t Photograph…
The Institute for the Future of the Book has released a WordPress theme “designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.” Information about the theme…
BookSwim is attempting to replicate the netflix model for the book world. They’re offering a service where you pay a monthly fee and receive and return books without…
Find out what’s been happening at my companion sites after the jump. BTW, I’ve moved my flickr badge over to Frozen Concentrated Culture and temporarily suspended “now reading.”…
I know a page is scandal bait inside the beltline, but let’s restrict ourselves to the meaning of the word in the context of print and screen. For…
There’s been a lot of blather on the threat to books by new media. In fact, at the moment new media represent an alternative to the stranglehold that…
Here’s what’s been happening at my companion sites: Frisco Vista Gridskipper’s Culinary Picks Women’s Guide to San Francisco Spat among SF Political Bloggers Link Roundup: San Francisco Area…
Over at Google Blogoscoped they’ve been talking about Google results for the query “how to get a …” Seems the things people appear to want are a passport,…
I don’t know if I’m getting better at making websites, but certainly my philosophy has evolved. For buried mirror I’ve gone with a very spare look. I’m no…
I’ve spun off the Maya portion of this site to a new domain, www.buriedmirror.com. The name alludes to the ancient Mesoamerican practice of including mirrors in burial sites….
… according to his website. Explanation: he was stealing images (ripping off bandwidth) for his myspace site and the image host retaliated with a little prank. I know…
You’ve seen them — the annoying little bits of bling, as Nick Wilson aptly characterized them — that pop up a little thumbnail of the page a link…