"We hoped that this page metaphor would underline our relationship the kind of serious content more associated with printed media—to (as we’ve often stated) ‘slow down the internet.’" –– have you considered that maybe the problem is your "relationship with serious content" ?

worth reading, full of face-palming and occasional rage-making. also, the short version appears to be "papernet"...

"A hybrid model of print-to-screen-and-back-again might teach us much about our relationship with images, which will define and shape the history of art and the way it is taught and written about in coming years. This might just be the equivalent of the possibility to run up or down the escalator in the opposite direction than it is heading. It’s possible, even if exhausting. But sometimes, you just want to stand there on the escalator and see the ground distance itself from you while you take in the view."

"The encyclopedia in the living room wasn’t a reference tool so much as aspirational furniture, a sign to visitors but mostly ourselves that our living room wasn’t dedicated in its entirety to that pagan idol television."

really, 500K ?

"Yes, there’s also a QR code. Stop having a knee-jerk reaction right now and think carefully. Some of those URLs are quite long, and one day, Pinboard might not exist to click on them from. Do you want to type them in by hand? No, you don’t, so you may as well use a visual encoding that you can scan with a phone in the kind of environment you’d read this book: at home, in good lighting. It is not the same as trying to scan marketing nonsense on the tube."

"A python program to build printable map books"

"Bookmachine takes your Pinboard links and makes paperback books of them: one 6"x9" book a year."

hot or not...for barcodes

"wkpdf is a command line tool for rendering HTML to PDF using WebKit and RubyCocoa on Mac OS X.

Although there are plenty of browsers available for Mac OS X, I could not find a command-line tool that allows for downloading a website and storing the rendered website as PDF. This was my motivation for creating wkpdf. The application uses Apple WebKit for rendering the HTML pages, thus the result should look similar to what you get when printing the webpage with Safari.

Since wkpdf is based on the state-of-the-art WebKit HTML rendering framework, it provides high-quality web standard compliant HTML rendering with support for advanced CSS2/CSS3 styling."

""The word you’re definitely looking for is 'Papernet’, coined by Aaron Cope in 2007," says Migurski. "The Papernet is a closing of the loop between the digital and the physical, and owns up to the fact that our most durable everyday storage medium is also our easiest technology to read and write." Resilience and fragility. Even as paper is displaced as the medium of choice, it adapts and endures."

"I decided to take all the blog posts, Twitter messages, and Flickr images I made this year, combine them, typeset them, and then get it printed in a hard-bound book. I wrote a bit about the reasoning here.

There was a lot of poking a pawing at the scripts I used to create the final product so I thought I'd share them in case someone else could get some use out of them.

Big warning: these are mostly worthless until you change them to fit your project. While all the code here works, and it ended up giving me a decent-looking book, you'll need to modify it, which is mostly the point. This is your retrospective and thus shouldn't be a cookie-cutter running of the code I wrote (if that would even work)."

"Next Monday, January 23 is the opening of Print Studio, an interactive space were MoMA visitors are invited to explore the evolution of artistic practices relating to the medium of print."

"Experience the Web in alphabetical order."

"It limits the amount you can write, but not your imagination. As Twitter-by-post has proved. ... Replicating Twitter via the postal system wasn’t an attempt to reject the internet—it was a way of celebrating it."

"I'm not sure when the mural above first appeared in Vancouver, British Columbia. But I recently noticed a QR code painted over an offending tag that had been sprayed on the mural. Remarkably, the QR Code takes you to an image of the mural before it was vandalized."

I would like nothing more than to purchase this book but it is a lesson in doing everything you can imagine to prevent me from doing so. From the outrageous price of the printed version to the insanely bad "web" version (it's like a WMS map for books if you can imagine the horror) to the even more offensively priced PDF versions of individual chapters. Springer Publishing, I'm sure you're lovely to have a drink with but you deserve to FAIL.

"I don't have any visions of grandeur that what's in my book is going to interest anyone but myself, and it will likely never be in a museum, but it's an assemblage of atoms that's going to be on my bookshelf, and will probably outlast me. That's a completely different feeling than pushing some bits from my phone or laptop to some hard drive in a distant data center that I then have to use a computer to look at again.

And unlike a computer, a book is a self-contained thing. Where my browser will load everything from pictures my friends upload, to emails sent to my landlord, to the daily news, a book is made of its pages, and that's it. When I pick up a novel, I know I'm getting an unbroken experience of reading just one story. So I'm taking what would normally live beside everything the Internet has to offer, and putting it in its own chunk of dedicated space."

"Our slides have plenty of wonderful memories that are unfortunately locked in an obsolete medium. Of course you can send them away to get them digitized but we've discovered a quick and low-cost way of doing it yourself with a scanner. It's easy, rewarding, and can be done with everyday materials. To do this, you will need the following:"

[redacted]

"Text lasts. It’s not platform-dependant, you don’t just get it from one source, read it in one place, understand it in one way. It is not dependent on technology: it is what we make technology out of. Code is text, it is the fundamental nature of technology. We’ve been trying for decades, since the advent of hypertext fiction, of media-rich CD-ROMs, to enhance the experience of literature with multimedia. And it has failed, every time."

"This way you can annotate your sources in DocumentCloud, and have a single copy of all your research ready at hand for your copy editor or read when your flight attendant announces that all power switches should be in the off position."

"QRpedia is a mobile Web based system which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users, in their preferred language.[1][2][3] QR codes can easily be generated to link directly to any Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but the QRpedia system adds further functionality.

QRpedia was conceived by Roger Bamkin, chair of Wikimedia UK, and unveiled in April 2011. It is currently in use at institutions including museums in the United Kingdom, United States and Spain. The project's source code is freely reusable under the MIT License."

"I mave made a custom Mapnik style file that's optimized for Amazon Kindle display." –– this is awesome

"The image has been captured and decoded by the microglyph MG-Controller software, connected to an industrial digital camera.

The software visualizes a successful decode with a red line around the code. This particular microglyph code contains 40 bytes of user data, displayed in the small window."

"PARC DataGlyphs are a robust and unobtrusive method of embedding computer-readable data on a variety of surfaces. Unlike most barcodes, DataGlyphs are flexible in shape and size. Their structure and robust error correction also make them suitable for curved surfaces and other situations where barcodes fail."

"The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process." –– I wonder if you can put your own ink in it...

"We specialize in larger format, poster size prints that are ideal for framing. Our maximum print size is 40.75 x 96 inches. ... We're $12 per square foot."

"The PDF Maps app is a geospatial PDF, GeoPDF and Geotiff reader for your Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices."

if only there were an open source ios/flickr uploadr...oh wait!

pure FUD. also, pirate maps!

"Because it was very difficult to get the big picture on the phone's small screen, I thought to pick up a paper map at a gas station. To my dismay, the spinner racks were empty, with only a few maps of other parts of the state available. I immediately regretted throwing away my paper maps in a cleaning binge a few years back - I can easily imagine futures in which they will be worth their weight in gold."

"Kleiman was a prodigious note-taker—nearly every one of her discs has a label or note with some information about what’s on it. My favorite example:  a 3.5” floppy disk that was corrupted and on which most files could not be read. But after looking at the label and exploring the paper records that were in the same folder, I chanced upon a “Disk Directory” that listed what files were on the disk in question, as well as print outs of the WordStar and Lotus 123 files it contained. Though we can only assume that this inventory is accurate, at least we know what is likely to be on this disk, which may aid in efforts to read the disk in the future."

"Get your images printed in full vivid color on smooth glass..." –– this would be more interesting if they would send me an account confirmation code that actually worked...

"Luckily for us, SparkFun started selling and E-Paper display, and breakout board finally bringing this great technology to a place where we can slap it on the back of our Arduinos." –– this is good

"Neutered or not, leaving a living, breathing service is a valid step in the opposite direction, from post-artifact to post-service artifact, to a parting gift."

"The TownGuide map generator (townguide.webhop.net) is a python program that will render a map to a PDF file and include a street index and an index of user selectable points of interest.

It can run as either a web service or as a stand-alone program if the source code is installed on your computer (from code.google.com/p/townguide)."

"Broadsides [timdevin.com] is an intriguing urban hacking (sort of) project by artist Tim Devin, in which infographics are deliberately situated in public space in order to engage the local community. Putting relevant information in the physical environment should encourage local inhabitants and passers-by to consider their own relationship to the place they live and frequent."

"Social Memories [facebook.com] is a new Facebook app for those fans of personal infographics and Nicholas Felton-style annual reports. The book is automatically generated from your Facebook data, and includes, next to the obvious photos and status updates, various infographic illustrations of the meaning, relations and priorities in your online social behavior."

[insert artifacts are the soft-porn of memory reference here]

"Local Ground is a site where you can contribute your own local knowledge to a digital map, even if you don't have access to a smart phone or a GPS device."

[insert "artifacts are the soft porn of memory" reference here]

"unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before performing optical character recognition (OCR). unpaper tries to clean scanned images by removing dark edges that appeared through scanning or copying on areas outside the actual page content (e.g. dark areas between the left-hand-side and the right-hand-side of a double- sided book-page scan). The program also tries to detect disaligned centering and rotation of pages and will automatically straighten each page by rotating it to the correct angle. This process is called "deskewing". Note that the automatic processing will sometimes fail. It is always a good idea to manually control the results of unpaper and adjust the parameter settings according to the requirements of the input. Each processing step can also be disabled individually for each sheet. Input and output files can be in either .pbm , .pgm or .ppm format, thus generally in .pnm format, as also used by the Linux scanning tools scanimage and scanadf. Conversion to PDF can e.g. be achieved with the Linux tools pgm2tiff, tiffcp and tiff2pdf."

"Given that the "mechanism of the host country" here isn't particularly geared in this way, the next morning, I decided to use a prop to overcome the gulf in language between Beijing’s taxi drivers and me. Pouncing on Linked Hybrid’s distinctive form, I quickly sketched out its shape on a bit of paper and showed it to the driver. The driver was relatively old—though you never know here; he had the kind of skin that looked as if it was aged by the conditions of Beijing rather than the natural passage of time—but good-natured with it, and though he looked utterly bewildered by the scribble, he shrugged and decided to give it a go."

"This notebook was created by Blaine Cook and Maureen Evans for the occasion of South By Southwest, 2011. We've stood tall on the shoulders of giants. The idea is stolen wholesale from the fine James Bridle, who constructed a notebook for the event held in 2010.

The maps were made possible by a group of esteemed friends from San Francisco. ModestMaps.py was used extensively to render the maps from dynamic sources, and is awesome. Thanks, Mike. Thmike. The maps themselves are OpenStreetMaps cum Cloudmade, which are great services if you have maps to design.

Really, though, the shining star, our Space Claw, is Aaron Straup-Cope, whose tireless work on creating little guidebooks of joy was the cornerstone of our mapwork. Straup, we hardly touched your opus; the best is yet to come. Oh, and Prettymaps, used for the cover, are fucking rad and beautiful, don't you agree? Aaron++

One more thing: the whole damn thing is HTML and images over HTTP. We don't need no stinkin' photoshop. Thanks, wkhtmltopdf. Thwkhtmltopdf. One day you'll be all grown up and make us proud. Damn proud."

"This isn't the future for publishing, periodicals, comics and DIY, but it's a future. A good one."