February 2012
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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“[A]t the core of knowledge’s new exaltation and transformation is a...”
– David Weinberger, David Weinberger (via Erin Kissane)
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“[A]n exploded, porous book whose every page could become an all-comprehending...”
– László Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus ideal of the book, as paraphrased by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels in The Electric Information Age Book
Jan 29th
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“[A] talented, dictatorial auteur will produce better work than polls, focus...”
– Mills Baker
Jan 29th
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“[C]reative ideas must be understood as hypotheses about certain sorts of...”
– Mills Baker
Jan 29th
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“[A] well-developed creative idea — a design, a song, a poem — is not an assembly...”
– Mills Baker
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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“We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts.”
– an idea from Maria Popova via Matt Thompson in “5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media” (via bettyann)
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Waves (Response to a Blog Post), by Daniel Anderson “This is my response to the blog posting, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. See the mantra: you don’t study digital composing, you perform it.”
Jan 27th
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“The fun part of research is finding what you aren’t looking for.”
– Erik Spiekermann
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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“[W]ork to create small-is-beautiful alternatives.”
– Alan Jacobs
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“The POPUPHOOD is a new urban initiative and small business incubator revitalizing Oakland, block by block.” POPUPHOOD, by Eva Kolenko
Jan 16th
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities “May we fight the things that reduce us for the company and truth that make life big.” —Frank Chimero
Jan 16th
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Is Twitter what Rayuela tried to be?
Two brief exchanges over the course of the past week have left me with the question above. @litherland [15 Jan 2012]: I’m fascinated by the idea of a “book” not as a discrete object but as motley events dispersed across time and space. @rogre [15 Jan 2012] @litherland Sounds a lot like @somebadideas on “life today” (due to social media): twitter.com/rogre/status/1… Is Twitter the...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“A game is not a story, it’s an emotion, it’s how we feel after a...”
– David Calvo (via Nicolas Nova)
Jan 16th
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“Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of...”
– Susan Cain
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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The Faustian Bargain (Trailer), Born to Learn
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the...”
– George Santayana, as referenced in Pico Iyer’s “Why We Travel”
Jan 2nd
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“To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city.”
– Geoff Manaugh
Jan 2nd
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