Essay on Janet Murray and Howard Rheingold books
Roy Christopher, a music and technology writer, has a nice short essay on two recent books that connect with contemplative computing, Janey Murray's Inventing the Medium: Principles of
Authorship is like parenting
I'm starting to get feedback about the contemplative computing book manuscript, about a month after I sent it out, and it occurs to me that an author's relationship
Sleeping with your Smartphone
Harvard Business School Press lists a new book by Leslie A. Perlow, coming out at the end of the month. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the
Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan's new book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) is just out, and it's gotten the kind of lengthy treatment in
How do you choose print versus digital versions of books?
I'm gathering some information about how people make the choice to read digital versus printed versions of books, newspapers, and the like. What I'm trying to do is
“the most important role that publishers perform is the one they are strangely reluctant to celebrate”
Via Pete Simon, I found this essay by Jeff Norton about making raising the visibility of editors as part of a larger effort to educate people (or maybe
“if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”
UK-based futurists Andrew Curry, Victoria Ward and Sabine Jaccaud have recently completed a study of the future of the library. Ward's company Spark Now has a description of
“What really changed my life was my decision to write every day”
Heather Donohue, who by an absolute cosmic law must be referred to as the star of the Blair Witch Project, has a new book out about her leaving
“I would rather people talk about the books than how I publish them”
The Guardian recently had a profile of self-publishing success Amanda Hocking, who writes novels incredibly quickly, then self-publishes them on Amazon. While she's managed to become a phenom
Another add to the pile: “Infinite Reality”
While I've read most of the technical articles that Jeremy Bailenson's lab has published (though from his perch in Xerox PARC, Nick Yee is giving his alma mater