Category: books
-
McKenzie Wark discusses new projects
Her is a (re-posted) article from Realtime abous McKenzie Wark and written by Darren Toffs. Wark is involved in a very interesting online book project (link). Search for ‘New Wark Vectors’. He was the young turk of Australian cultural studies in the 1980s and an architect of the emerging cyberscene of the 90s. He gave…
-
What to do with a million books: Innovations in Scholarly Communication
(The 'scholarly communication' in this email isn't that 'scholarly' ie. I think that Michael Hart the founder of Project Gutenburg is talking about hard-on tablets rather than e-books ie. 'bigger, faster, more'. Still, ebooks may eventually become more than just 'the delivery boy' of scholarship as Willard McCarthy of that wonderful email discussion list Humanist…
-
What books am I reading?
This is one of my first attempts of adding my own video to this blog (thanks to Youtube.com). And what better way to make a seque into a new medium than by having a book under my arm. See and hear what books I am reading at the moment; I suppose that it is better…
-
Audio Books
Over summer, whilst travelling in India, I listened on my IPod, to the whole 40 or so hours of Dostoevsky’s War and Peace (a wonderful book btw). Audio books are great for travelling, as you don’t have to carry the whole book, but apart from this, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of…
-
E-Books poised to leap
I did some research on E-Books a few years ago for a highly innovative publishing house here in Melbourne called Common Ground Publishing. Not a hell of a lot has happened in the field since, but as with all things digital, e-books seems to be making a come back of late. (from the Age ).…
-
Open Content Alliance
The open content alliance is a mammoth project to make available online for free millions of public domain books. Google is not a member of this alliance but have their own digitisation project. What is the Open Content Alliance? The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit,…