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Re: Unlocking the Pynchon Badge, or Doing it in Public: further thoughts from #BCTO10 on place and reading

Kwandell Peckerwood — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:18:10 -0000

Foursquare users have a freeform "shout" input field at the time of checkin. It's not perfect, but it's something.

Re: Infinite Summer and the Nike+ Model for Books

Marcus — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:32:30 -0000

Remember when you were a child, lying on your tummy on the floor, coloring book open, crayon in hand with the other crayons spilling out of the box? Can you remember the sense of peace and enjoyment you felt while you were coloring? Why not consider revisiting this favorite childhood pastime to help during those times when you find yourself feeling on edge.

Re: Is there something you’d like to share?

maike — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:09:20 -0000

I'm sure the title of this post is not intended to solicit, say, links to interesting architecture in Singapore or schematics for home-built guillotines, but it seems to be the only handy entry point for communication which may be of interest to Datachondrians that is not exactly associated with existing topics, to wit: Algorithm-based data mining used to create specific content based on revenue potential.

Obviously not at all a new concept, but accomplishing a new system and production-line process to monetize data seems relevant, especially when the scale is "everything in the world."

Here's the company: http://www.demandmedia.com/

and a process overview: http://www.wired.com/magazi...

Re: Meeting your teacher at the mall

Joe Clark — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:26:37 -0000

Ask Bopuc. He’s so important he’s go two Twits.

Re: Zero tolerance for silence, or the literalization of “Writers write.”

Joe Clark — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:52:24 -0000

A real critic names his subject.

Re: And I Don’t Much Want Your Business Card Either

Joe Clark — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:10:06 -0000

Push this too far and maybe your new book-related organization will miss the one person with the experience and wisdom to actually solve your problem because he is antediluvian enough to merely publish everything he does with RSS feeds and be available by E-mail and chat 12 hours a day.

Or! Shorter Datachondria: You must be a total lose if you aren’t on Twitter, so why would I even bother?

Re: Datachondria » Blog Archive » Digital Distribution and the End of Home Warehousing

Tim Middleton — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:31:07 -0000

@Hugh McGuire, I have actually found my list making has grown exponentially with digital. With the ability to place books in a "I want to read" category or on a wish list of some sort my lists are huge. I don't think the sensual pleasure comes from writing a list in a journal? it comes from dreaming and thinking what would I read if I had all the time in the world, sort of like what would you do if you won the lottery.

Re: Datachondria » Blog Archive » Digital Distribution and the End of Home Warehousing

hdbbstephen on Twitter — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:34:15 -0000

I am not too sure about that. I *really* like the feel of an actual book. And having them on the shelves.
I also suspect that it is hard to write in the margins of a Kindle.

Re: Datachondria » Blog Archive » Digital Distribution and the End of Home Warehousing

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:34:56 -0000

And yet making those list is a sensual pleasure in and of itself. Lists will be missed. I'm not sure if that is good or bad, but we do lose something valuable - the pleasurable thinking required because of scarcity - when digital abundance abounds.

Re: Books 2.0

maike — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:12:23 -0000

Interesting. Have you purchased anything in the DAISY format, which appears to do this type of synchronizing? Also see: http://www.niso.org/workroo... which has an extensive (sleep inducing) description of standardization and format for audio/data.
Also: http://www.readhowyouwant.c..., which may be a source to produce books in this format.

Don't know if this is of any interest. http://www.toccon.com/toc20...

Re: Note to self: carry notepad

maike — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:35:28 -0000

One, and just one, 3x5 card, folded in half and kept in one's wallet. Always ready, allowing the thought to become tangible and examined from several angles. Can be re-folded and sailed into the air. Or it can be a momentary pleasure when you decide it's not good enough, and a few thin wisps of smoke drift above the ashtray.

The concept that one needs a "device" to think and record scares me.

Re: Audiobooks, or how I learned to love housework

k. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:31:32 -0000

Audiobooks have another use - my mom can't read any more. Not in an intellectual sense - but a physical one. She doesn't have enough control over her eyes to read books. So I bought her six audiobooks for Christmas when bookcloseouts was having a clearance. She's getting a few more for her birthday. And like you - she plays them while she cooks, or cleans or occupies herself - it occupies her mind. But no wireless headphones, that's too much technology. My father, on the other hand, just takes out his hearing aids and watches sports on TV in the other room.