mood swing
A significant shift of view is in progress over at Future of the Book dot org. New accommodation of networked authorship into a wider matrix of writing activities is in progress. While the author partitioned wiki accomplishments are moving that forum to a larger role, collaborative authorship in literary works is inert.
Meanwhile the
if:blog itself is exemplifying classical exposition exercises as FotB.org staffers and contributors are writing extensive, coherent analysis of the place of networked authorship. Many more questions than answers. There is a strange post-digital feeling to it all. Now if the line length was shortened...
Nicholas Carr is considering the transition of computing to a utility status distributed just like electricity. If authorship can be a distributed utility it may still retain the current of individual creation.
story factory attractor
"What experience tops opening and reading a book you wrote yourself? Experience it!
The Story Factory at Literacy Landing (Coralville, Iowa) provides the visitor with the ultimate souvenir. Utilizing the latest in imaging and digital printing technologies the visitor will observe the lightning production of their own story as it is transformed into an elegant book. The next author you read will be you!"
The current $30 billion, on-demand publishing industry is growing at double digits every year. They would be attracted to a Stories Factory exposition featuring the possibilities. The souvenir book could be approached in various revenue positive versions. It would also spawn events and gatherings as well as standard writing vacations.
beta is forever
"Think of networked books as social spaces where author and readers interact. Tools that are popular today - email list servers, discussion forums, blogs, wikis even virtual game spaces like Second Life - could be thought of as rudimentary sketches toward a far more sophisticated architecture that could transform books into conversations"
Ben Vershbow
It is consistent that advocates for the futuristic networked book overlook two counterpoints. One is that the paper book has already fulfilled the avant guard functionality and social role that is envisioned, and two is that the futuristic networked book has not quite yet achieved the same attributes.
Who is being opaque here? If there is such a hunger for a re-engineering of the cognative book device why not consider the existing model first? For starters, why not consider for a moment the function of the book as a physical evidence of thoughful living?
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