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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Permanent link to archive for 5/30/07.


printing from the Internet

53 trillion digital pages will be printed in 2010 alone, one half directly from the Internet, an opportunity valued at more than $296 billion. HP Print 2.0 is anticipating this direct consequence of the digital book and cold type. Check out the strange, visionary video.

a writing software

Why can't whole blogs be like this? It is time to move beyond the primitive blog screen with its silly necklace of comments and browser endless line length. Lets have some truly graphical and dynamic presentation of the discussion, let's approach a screen equivalent of the wonderful page composites of earlier printed cosmographies and multilingual texts. Let's consider the interactive page innovations of the manuscript era.

Reference Christianity and the Transformation of the Book.

a writing university

Its interesting how oblivious the Writing University is concerning the mechanisms of writing transmission. The postings of readings and awards and new releases goes on in a constant stream without the slightest awareness of the media or presentation formats of these conceptual works.

Is integration of expression with its materialities too much of an educational challenge? It is apparent that at the University of Iowa is focused on writing with out a mention of the University of Iowa Center for the Book. The administrative agenda here, creating a distinguished image, is missing an opportunity.

book trail

Salem Press Library Blog portal has kindly linked to FotB.com.

 
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