one man's meat. . .
Attitudes : 1. Anne Fadiman, the author, was relieved to learn that her essay collection, “Ex...
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Steven Johnson on e-reading
Over the next few days, as time permits, — here at Wheaton, we’re getting near the end of the semester, and...
zooming
I really love Scott McCloud's seminal guide Understanding Comics, but in general I'm not a big fan of...
comments
I commend to you all the excellent comments by — darn these pseudonyms! — some Biblical verse and nadezhda on this...
a bookish experiment
A great idea from Michael Bhaskar: I’m convinced that all reading relies on rhythm in some way, a rhythm that is...
Blake, digitized
You can see some of the technical challenges involved in the multimedia-digital-book idea by checking this out: an...
first 11 char
Jakob Nielsen says people read first 2 words (11 characters) of online lists or thereabouts (I’m hoping for a...
vookin'
I’ve written before on this blog that what I like most about the Kindle is the way that its design promotes...
obsessions
Here’s a delightful little essay by Emily Bazelon on her children’s fixation on Star Wars. Bazelon makes a...
more on visual criticism
Following this earlier post, here’s another example of visualized criticism. What do the images add to this...