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The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen - NYTimes.com
Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes. We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture.
book  future  history  nyt  reading 
september 2011 by shadowsun7
jtauber's Profile - GitHub
Some open-source projects to read (code)
django  projects  code  reading 
june 2010 by shadowsun7
The Editor as Wizard « Snarkmarket
Important idea: The prob­lem with self-published books, for authors and for poten­tial read­ers, is that the phys­i­cal book no longer sig­ni­fies that any­one has read it. In fact, the phys­i­cal fact of a self-published book is far more likely to sig­nify that aston­ish­ingly few peo­ple have read it.
Self-publishing  publishing  novelr  writing  reading 
april 2010 by shadowsun7
Steve Marting on Being Funny
How Steve Martin worked hard to be funny - and succeeded.
art  articles  arts  authors  comedians  comedy  culture  daily  fun  writing  reading  inspiration  humour  humor  funny  smithsonian  standup 
march 2010 by shadowsun7
Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny : The New Yorker
Brilliant article on Yau vs Perelman on Perelman's proof of the Poincare conjecture.
archive  article  newyorker  politics  history  interesting  math  mathematics  maths  science  sad  reading  read  psychology  perelman  conjecture  genius  poincare  yau 
march 2010 by shadowsun7
Wired 13.10: The Trend Spotter
How O'Reilly started the biggest technical manual publishing business known to man. (Okay, okay, I kid).
business  web  internet  reading  interview  life  tech  trends  computers  programming  article  reference  publishing  books  technology  research  articles  web2.0  innovation  english  oreilly  wired 
december 2009 by shadowsun7
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typical workday
web  business  reading  entrepreneurship  articles  software  productivity  collaboration  work  interview  startup  strategy  code  life  toread  37signals  jasonfried  todo  job  businessmodel  founders  planning 
november 2009 by shadowsun7
Death to the Nut Graph
Dan Baum - on the Nut Graph in nonfiction article writing - stay away from it, because it gives the reader an excuse to stop writing.
writing  reading  journalism  advice  editing  dan-baum  nonfiction 
july 2009 by shadowsun7
ongoing · Less Like Oration
Writing in the Internet era is becoming less like Oration and more like Communication. It's not clear that this is a bad thing.
writing  reading  communication  internet  books  language 
april 2009 by shadowsun7
Jake's Dillemma - on Authonomy
The story of a homosexual son of a homophobic preacher. Pretty cool book, top on Authonomy when I first found it.
ebook  authonomy  writing  novelr  reading 
february 2009 by shadowsun7
By any other name / from a working library
Musings on the ebook, and the evolution of the medium from scrolls to books.
essay  writing  ebook  history  book  publishing  reading 
january 2009 by shadowsun7

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