"That is one of the potential shifts in social reading: Can I create value for other people by saying that I found this passage by Bruno LaTour striking — even if I never look at it again? That’s an amazing act of what I called “frozen sharing” in my last book. Being generous about things when you are offering it out to the public, without it being either in a specific time frame or for a specific target."

"The Bessenberg Bindery has served the university, medical, legal, publishing, advertising and book collecting communities in southern Michigan since 1978.

We are a hand book bindery that offers a full range of sewn, hardcover book binding, custom boxes, book repair, prototype objects, custom photo album and scrap books, portfolios, and desk accessories. We quote on jobs as small as one book, or as large as 500.

We are a craft shop and all our work is customized to meet our clients' varied requirements. In both original binding and book repairs we stress attractiveness, proper fit and durability."

"I've scanned pages of the September 1857 issue of The College Journal of Medical Science, OCRed these to html (to preserve some formatting) with ABBYY FineReader 9, and am converting those html files into LaTeX files.

The latest PDF version (as constructed on my computer) can be downloaded (via "view raw") from http://github.com/Vaguery/collegeJournalOfMedicalScienceSeptember1857/blob/master/work.pdf

A collection of scripts and checklists is coming out of this: scripts to do the heavy lifting translating self-contained HTML to TeX intended to be strung together into a single work, and checklists of small proofreading and hand-formatting tasks that need to be completed on each page.

The individual page TeX files are stitched together and typeset in ./work.tex, using XeLaTeX. Be sure to check the font assignments; I'm using purchased postscript fonts I own."

"SOLSTICE SOLARGRAPHS: Last December, the staff of the Philippus Lansbergen Observatory in Middelburg, the Netherlands, invited members of the general public to join them for a solargraph-making party. A solargraph is a simple pinhole camera made from a soda or beer can lined with a piece of photographic paper. About a 100 cans were deployed around the observatory and, six months later, here are the results:…"

"rQRCode is a library for encoding QRCodes in Ruby. It has a simple interface with all the standard qrcode options. It was adapted from the Javascript library by Kazuhiko Arase."

"Accordion Mini Books are the perfect gift item for your clients to use as mini folios and brag books. Available in a wallet and a square 3x3 size, order an Accordion Mini Book on any of our press printed papers – standard semi-gloss, art linen, art watercolor, art recycled, and pearl. UV coating can also be added. Cover options include fabrics, leathers, suedes, or a personalized custom photo cover in lustre or metallic with a matte laminate. The wallet Accordion Mini Books have up to 14 customizable panels and the square 3x3 has up to 10 customizable panels. This is a great add-on item with any order! Accordion Mini Books are available through ROES with a minimum order of 3 identical books, order each side as a spread. Frosted Slip Covers are also available for only $1/book."

"Yesterday we analyzed some of the applications being built with Pachube, an open source platform enabling developers to connect sensor data to the Web. We at ReadWriteWeb think that Pachube is an excellent example of one of our Top 5 Trends of 2009: Internet of Things. So we're exploring Pachube in-depth in a 3-part series...."

"Rubx, a.k.a. Ruby Boobie, is your personal Ruby interpreter in Twitter. Whether you are trying to test some Ruby code, play around with it or see what's capable of, Rubx is here for you.

Think of Rubx as IRB (the Interactive Ruby Shell), built-in on Twitter."

Somebody was asking about this in a conversation. Ed?

We seem to be nudging towards SOA

Consider using to cluster (or impose a metric upon) del.icio.us posts, blog posts, or other semantic tagged items. Taking into account time-density of topics and usage.

Formalizing good habits in collaborative workflows