- USB Typewriter by usbtypewriter on Etsy
Why no, there is no practical reason to get one of these. Why yes, I do really really want one.
- Frank Chimero: What is the future of print design?
Key quotes: "we break stuff before we know what replaces it, and we invent things before we know what they are for" and "If I’m thinking as a normal consumer, I don’t really care terribly much about what the future of ink on paper is going to be. I care about what the future of content is going to be."
- mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Useful reference for the reasonably near future, I suspect.
Tag: publishing
Bookmarks for January 8, 2010
- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
I think I must find some people, and somehow stage this. It would be *amazing*.
- Prices | Newspaper Club
12 people, stumping up less that 50 quid each could all get 40 copies of a 12 page full colour printed product that would be easily saleable for 1.50 plus P&P. That's a tabloid newspaper page to do with as you will, and ten quid in your pocket. Creative people out there: what would you fill your page with?
Bookmarks for December 1, 2009
- Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization « Clay Shirky
Clary Shirky on the future of the bookstore. I think that the local bookstore probably has a longer future that the local record store did – I think it'll take a generational shift or two, until we've got people who are more used to reading on the screen than they are on paper, but I think he's right that they're going to need to make massive practical changes in the way they do business – perhaps becoming hubs for local POD services…
Bookmarks for October 23, 2009
- The £10,000 playlist
Nice summary of why I still prefer buying music, and using iTunes to using Spotify. (Although saying that, I have spent quite a chunk of this week using Spotify, to listen to something specific that I don't happen to own yet.)
Bookmarks for June 30, 2009
- potlatch: what's going on with the music formerly known as 'indie'?
"I can tell you which Suede record accompanied my GCSEs and A-Levels; today's teenagers would tell you which band."
- Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair
Never mind kicking myself – I am scourging myself with rusty barbed wire, and rubbing salt in the wounds for missing this. Couple of key quotes from this write up: "Is the current be-scaffolded state of London perpetual remythologising?" Iain Sinclair says “Before we can move forward, we have to absorb everything that has come before, and rip it off.”
- SoFoBoMo – The Solo Photo Book Month
Dammit, why was I not told about this? Next year, gadget, next year!
- Glastonbury 2009 – The Big Picture
It *almost* makes me want to got there next year, and take a camera. Obviously, I'm not mad, and won't be going, but there are some absolutely gorgeous shots in here.
Bookmarks for February 22, 2009
- Tabbloid
Well, this is going to make my little auto-printing app a lot simpler. Set up a fistful of RSS feeds, get them delivered as a formatted newspaper thing in PDF form overnight. Aces!